G. Dovico

After her BA and MA in Classics in Padua and Dijon, Giulia Dovico carried out her doctoral studies between Cologne, Padua, and Berkeley. For her PhD, she produced a new critical edition of scholia (i.e. ancient marginal exegetical commentaries) to Euripides’ Medea, which she is now reworking for publication. She held a position at the Cluster of Excellence “Understanding Written Artefacts” in Hamburg and was awarded, among others, a grant from the Fondation Hardt, a grant from the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, and a visiting fellowship at CECIL in Pisa. Since February 2025, she has been working as a DFG-Walter Benjamin Fellow at the Universities of Groningen and Leiden, inquiring into the role(s) of figurative language in ancient literary-critical writings in relation to the varying degrees of literariness and technicality they display. Combining literary and textual critical approaches, her research mainly focuses on the transmission of Aristophanic comedies, ancient Greek scholarship (especially Greek scholiography to Euripides), ancient literary criticism, metaphors and figurative language (including also Conceptual Metaphor Theory).