Forschungsschwerpunkte
Forschungsschwerpunkte:
Dingkulturen der Antike, Phänomenologie und Bedeutung von Licht, Bild und Mythos, Griechische und römische Grabikonographie, die römische Cena, hellenistische Städte Kleinasiens, Sakralräume zwischen Stadt und Landschaft.
Phenomenology and meaning of light in antiquity, ecphrastic epigrams, myth and image; Greek and Roman funerary iconography; cities of Hellenistic Asia Minor; the Roman cena.
Current Research Projects
- New Light from Pompeii: A comprehensive project on the lighting culture in the Vesuvian cities (monograph, database, e-learning & exhibition project)
- New Perspectives on the Colossus of Rhodes (book, in preparation)
- The Digital Colossus project
- More than a thing: Figural hybridity in ancient furnishings (research group and edited book project)
- The Octagon in Pompeiopolis (Paphlagonia), excavation project (2014-18)