Univ.-Prof. Dr. Danuta Shanzer

Curriculum Vitae:

geboren 1956 in New York City, USA
1961-1974 Brearley School, New York City
1974 High School Diploma, The Brearley School, New York City
1974-1977 Studium am Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
1977 "magna cum laude insignique nota in litteris Graecis" (Double major in Greek and Latin with Honors in Greek)
1977-1980 Marshall Scholarship (Mid-Eastern Region) from the British Government
1977-1980 Graduate Study at Corpus Christi College, Oxford
1980-1981 Lees Research Fellow in Latin, The University of Manchester
1980-1981 Non-Stipendiary Junior Research Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford
1981 D.Phil. (Literae Humaniores), Oxford University
1981-1987 Assistant Professor of Classics (and Romance Philology), University of California, Berkeley
1983-1984 Forschungsstipendium von der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Seminar für lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters, Universität München
1986 Faculty Development Grant, University of California, Berkeley
1987 Grant-in-Aid of Research, American Council of Learned Societies
1987-1990 Associate Professor of Classics (and Romance Philology), University of California, Berkeley
1989-1989 Visiting Professor of Classics, Harvard University
1989-1993 Associate Professor of Classics (and Religious and Mediaeval Studies), Cornell University
1992 Visiting Woman Scholar, Dept. of Classics, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario
1992-1993 Acting Director of the Mediaeval Studies Program Cornell University
1993-2004 Professor of Classics (and Religious Studies and Medieval Studies)
1993-2001 Director of the Mediaeval Studies Program, Cornell University
1996 Grant for International Collaborative Research, Society for the Humanities, Cornell University
1997-1998 Acting Chair of the Classics Dept., Cornell University
1999 (Michaelmas Term) Visiting Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
2001-2003 Director of Graduate Studies, Classics, Cornell University
2003-2011 Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2004-2007 Vice-Chair and Director of Graduate Studies, the Dept. of the Classics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2007 Fall Associate, Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2008 Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America
2009-2010 Gastwissenschafterin, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Universität Heidelberg
seit Mai 2011 Professur für Spät- und Mittellateinische Philologie am Institut für Klassische Philologie, Mittel- und Neulatein der Universität Wien

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

* Lateinische Literatur der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters
* Religionsgeschichte und Sozialgeschichte der Spätantike
* Hagiographie und Epistolographie
* Die Barbarenreiche des frühen Mittelalters
* Klassische und Mittellateinische Philologie
* Jenseitsvorstellungen: Himmel, Fegefeuer und Hölle
* Der Ursprung des christlichen Gottesurteils
* Überlieferungsgeschichte und Textkritik
* Rezeption der klassischen Literatur im Mittelalter