Victoria Rimell

Victoria Rimell
Born	(1974-04-03) April 3, 1974
Academic background
Education	King's College, Cambridge King's College, London
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Sub-discipline	Latin Literature
Institutions	Roma La Sapienza Warwick University

Victoria Rimell (born 1974) is a British classicist and Professor of Latin at the University of Warwick. Her research spans a wide range of Roman authors and operates on the interface between classical philology and modern thought. Among her publications are books on Ovid, Martial and Petronius. She serves on the council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.

Career

Rimell studied Classics at King's College, Cambridge where she received a BA and an MPhil degree. She then moved to King's College, London, graduating with a PhD in 2001. After working at University College, Oxford, and Cambridge University, she took up a position at Sapienza University of Rome in 2004. Since 2016, she has worked at Warwick University as an Associate Professor and, from 2018, as a Professor.

Selected publications

• Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction, Cambridge University Press, 2002
• Ovid’s Lovers: Desire, Difference, and the Poetic Imagination, Cambridge University Press, 2006
• Martial’s Rome: Empire and the Ideology of Epigram, Cambridge University Press, 2008
• The Closure of Space in Roman Poetics: Empire’s Inward Turn, Cambridge University Press, 2015