SFB Neo-Latin in the Modern World

Dr. Johanna Luggin

Principal Investigator of Sub-Project 4

Contact

University of Innsbruck
Department of Classical Philology and Neo-Latin Studies

Innrain 52a, 6th floor
6020 Innsbruck
Austria
Room: 06K040
telephone: 507 40712
email: johanna.luggin@uibk.ac.at

Biography
  • 2010: Magistra in Ancient History and Classical Studies as well as in Latin / History, University of Innsbruck
  • 2008–2011: Student assistant and tutor at the Departments of Ancient History and Near Eastern Studies as well as at the Department of Classical Philology, University of Innsbruck
  • 2010–2011: Project assistant “Tyrolis Latina – Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur in Tirol”, Department of Classical Philology, University of Innsbruck
  • 2012–2015: Junior Researcher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck
  • 2014–2015: Pre- and subsequently Post-Doc in the DH project “Croatica et Tyrolensia”, University of Zagreb
  • 02/2015 PhD Literary and Cultural Studies, Latin, University of Innsbruck
  • 2015–2017: Post-Doc Researcher, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute and Principal Investigator of the research line “Neo-Latin and Mentalities” at the partner university in Freiburg i.Br.
  • 2017–2023: Post-Doc Researcher in the ERC Advanced Grant “Nova Scientia. Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin”
  • 2019: Library Grant at the Warburg Institute, London
  • 2019/20 and 2022: Parental leave (2 times)
  • 2023–2027: Erica Cremer-habilitation project
  • Since January 2026: PI of sub-project 4 on Neo-Latin women writers
Research Fields
  • Neo-Latin women writers, esp. Neo-Latin women in science and philosophy
  • The role of rhetoric in Neo-Latin scientific texts
  • Landscape and natural wonders in Neo-Latin poetry and prose
  • Neo-Latin travel poetry
Books
  • Thomas Hobbes, De mirabilibus Pecci carmen. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar (Noctes Neolatinae, vol. 27), Hildesheim et al. 2016.
  • (with Sebastian Fink, eds.): Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. A Comparative Approach (Studies in Universal and Cultural History), Wiesbaden 2020.
  • (with Neven Jovanovic / Luca Spoljaric / Lav Subaric, eds.): Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol: Challenges, Prospects, Case Studies, Vienna et al. 2018.
Other Publications
  • (with Maes, I., Maleux, M., Smets, S., Van Rooy, R., Marsico, C., Schaffenrath, F., & Šubarić, L.): Neo-Latin: Literature, in: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 86, forthc.
  • “A Girl Prodigy in Enlightened Milan: Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718–1799), Propositiones philosophicae,” in: Stephen Harrison / Gesine Manuwald (eds.), An Anthology of Neo-Latin Literature Written by Women, London 2026, 179-292 (forthc.).
  • “Barocke Wissenschaft?: Astronomisches Wissen und Imagination in lateinischen Weltraumreisen des 17. Jahrhunderts,” in: Beate Hintzen (ed.): Lateinische Literatur des Barock, Leiden 2025, 147–171. https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846769416_009
  • (mit Maes, I., Maleux, M., Smets, S., Van Rooy, R., Marsico, C., Schaffenrath, F., & Šubarić, L.): Neo-Latin: Literature, in: The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 85 (1), 3–36. https://doi.org/10.1163/22224297-08501001
  • “A Cartesian Underworld Uncovered. Le Coëdic’s Polemical Poetry against René Descartes,” in: Daphnis 52.2 (2024), 283–306.
  • “Wie beschreibt man mirabilia? Antike und neuzeitliche literarische Erkundungen des Ätna,” in: Martin Korenjak / Irina Tautschnig (eds.): Die antike Literatur und die Wissenschaftliche Revolution, Baden-Baden 2023, 119–142.
  • “‘Trust No One But Yourself’: William Gilbert’s Use of Experiment and Rejection of Authority, Reconsidered,” in: Perspectives on Science 30.6 (2022), 925–949.
  • “Itinera Domestica. Exploring the English Countryside through the Eyes of the Academic in 16th and 17th-Century Neo-Latin Texts,” in: Humanistica Lovaniensia 71 (2022), 7–39.
  • “Philosophia naturalis: Ancient Rhetoric and Early Modern Science,” in: Sophia Papaioannou / Andreas Serafim / Michael Edwards (eds.): Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric, Leiden 2021, 783–821.
  • “Claude Griffets Cerebrum (1727), ein poetischer Führer durch das Gehirn,” in: Ramunė Markevičiūtė / Bernd Roling (eds.): Die Poesie der Dinge. Ziele und Strategien der Wissensvermittlung im lateinischen Lehrgedicht der Frühen Neuzeit, Berlin 2021, 185–203.
  • “Fechner (Vechner), Johann(es),” in: Stefanie Arend et al. (eds.): Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon. Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1620–1720, vol. 2, Berlin 2020, 841–850.
  • “Imperium iam tandem Italiae restitutum est. Lateinische Übersetzungen der Reden Mussolinis zum faschistischen Imperium,” in: Bettina Reitz-Joosse / Han Lamers / Valerio Sanzotta (eds.): Studies in Fascist Latin Literature and Epigraphy (Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia), Leuven 2020, 105–142.
  • “A Battle of Emperors? Contemporary Poetic and Prose Descriptions of Austerlitz (1805),” in: Sebastian Fink / Johanna Luggin (eds.): Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. A Comparative Approach (Studies in Universal and Cultural History), Wiesbaden 2020, 269–304.
  • (with Sebastian Fink): “Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts: an Introduction,” in: Sebastian Fink / Johanna Luggin (eds.): Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. A Comparative Approach (Universal- und Kulturhistorische Studien. Studies in Universal and Cultural History), Wiesbaden 2020, 1–8.
  • “Thomas Hobbes’ Journey Poem De mirabilibus Pecci (1627): A Travel Guide for Early English Domestic Tourism,” in: Karl A.E. Enenkel / Jan de Jong (eds.): Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Travel Culture, 1550-1700 (Intersections 64), Leiden 2019, 262–289.
  • “Macrohistory or Microhistory: The Tyrolean Menippean Satire as a regional literary genre,” in: Neven Jovanovic / Johanna Luggin / Luca Spoljaric / Lav Subaric (eds.): Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol: Challenges, Prospects, Case Studies, Vienna et al. 2018, 107–118.
  • “Response to: Luca Spoljaric: Power and Subversion in the Ducal Palace: Dalmatian Patrician Humanists and the Congratulatory Orations  to the Newly Elected Doges,” in: Neven Jovanovic / Johanna Luggin / Luca Spoljaric / Lav Subaric (eds.): Neo-Latin Contexts in Croatia and Tyrol: Challenges, Prospects, Case Studies, Vienna et al. 2018, 105–106.
  • “Britannia illustrata: Die Konzeptualisierung eines vereinten Großbritannien in Landesbeschreibungen des 16. und 17. Jhs.,” in: Michael Kasper / Martin Korenjak / Robert Rollinger / Andreas Rudigier (eds.): Entdeckungen der Landschaft. Raum und Kultur in Geschichte und Gegenwart (Montafoner Gipfeltreffen 2), Vienna et al. 2017, 235–250.
  • “Wunder der Heimat – Denis de Salvaing de Boissieu und die septem miracula der Dauphiné,” in: Neulateinisches Jahrbuch 18 (2016), 241–259.
  • “Maximilian I. bezwingt das Gebirge: Der Magnanimus des Richardus Sbrulius,” in: Michael Kasper / Martin Korenjak / Robert Rollinger / Andreas Rudigier (eds.): Alltag – Albtraum – Abenteuer. Gebirgsüberschreitungen und Gipfelsturm in der Geschichte (Montafoner Gipfeltreffen 1), Wien u.a. 2015, 151–167.
  • “Antike Schlachtenschilderungen – Die Darstellung von Pharsalos in der lateinischen und griechischen Literatur,” in: Peter Mauritsch (ed.): Akten des 13. Österreichischen Althistorikerinnen- und Althistorikertages, Graz 2011, 165–184.
Database Work
Talks
  • Heroic Self-fashioning: How to Make Oneself the New Authority • IANLS Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 14–19 July 2025.
  • “Quadriga feminarum doctarum” – Women’s Neo-Latin Poetry and Science • Women’s Scientific Literatures: The Poetry and Poetics of Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, 26–27 June 2025.
  • Publishing an Astronomical Book in Seventeenth-Century Silesia: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power • Women Writing Natural Philosophy in Early Modern Europe: Spaces and Exchanges, Exeter, 2–4 June 2025.
  • Fantastic dialogues and what (not) to write in them: reflections on a genre hybrid • Scientific Poetics and Neo-Latin: A Roundtable, Cambridge, 30 May 2025.
  • Agency and Impact in Questions of Gender in Latin Studies – Risks and Opportunities • RELICS Roundtable „Women as Authors of Latin Literature“, online,  11 March 2025.
  • Introducing a Women’s Book: Maria Cunitz’ Urania Propitia (1650) between Self-Translation, Intellectual Networks and Male Power • Konferenz “Per limina. Printed Paratexts and the Intellectual Networks of Humanism (15th – 18th c.)”, 6–7 December 2024.
  • Heavenly Travels, from Rome to Brazil: Baroque Imagination and Global Science in Valentin Stansel’s Uranophilus (1685) • SCIENTIAE: Online Turin-Prague Seminar, Fall 2024: “History of Scholarship and the Global Imagination”, 18 November 2024.
  • Heavenly Travels, from Rome to Brazil: Baroque Imagination and Global Science in Valentin Stansel’s Uranophilus (1685) • 11th Annual Meeting of SCIENTIAE, Brussels, 11–14 June 2024.
  • Introduction: Pathos in Neo-Latin Scientific Literature • ERC-Workshop „Pathos in Neo-Latin Scientific Literature“, Innsbruck, 12–13 November 2021.
  • Wie beschreibt man mirabilia? Antike und neuzeitliche literarische Erkundungen des Ätna • Pontes X, Innsbruck 23–25 September 2021.
  • William Gilbert’s De magnete: The Patronless Novelty • Online RSA-conference, 21 April 2021.
  • Poeticizing Wisdom and Madness – Cartesian Physiology and Lucretian Rhetoric in 17th and 18th Century Didactic Poetry • Online Guest Talk STVDIO Seminar Warwick, 2. October 2020.
  • William Gilbert’s Use of Experiment and Rejection of Authority, Reconsidered • Workshop “(De)Constructing Authority in Early Modern Cosmology”, Innsbruck, 7 June 2019.
  • In tam vasto librorum oceano, quibus studiosorum ingenia perturbantur – Zeugenschaft und Autorität als rhetorische Kunstmittel in wissenschaftlichen Debatten des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts • Konferenz “Zeugenschaft in der frühen Neuzeit”, Graz, 22–23 May 2019.
  • Explaining the Brain to 18th-Century Readers: Claude Griffet’s Didactic Poem Cerebrum (1727) • IANLS Congress, Albacete, 30 July–4 August 2018.
  • Thomas Hobbes’s Journey Poem De mirabilibus Pecci (1627): A Travel Guide for Early English Domestic Tourism • Conference „Artes Apodemicae and Early Modern Traveling Culture 1400–1700“, Münster, 2–3 November 2017.
  • Landscape and National Identity: William Camden and the prospectus of Britain • Conference „Neo-Latin Literary Perspectives on Britain and Ireland, 1520–1670“, Cambridge, 15–16 September 2017.
  • “You will behold no sights so great belonging to the human rabble”: Mount Aetna and the Wonders of Nature • Conference “Mountains in Antiquity”, St Andrews, 8–9 June 2017.
  • A Battle of Nations. A Poetic Description of the Battle of Austerlitz (1805) • Conference “Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts. A Comparative Approach”, Innsbruck, 15–17 May 2017.
  • Rhetorical Strategies in Scientific Prose Texts • Classical Association Conference, Canterbury, 26–29 April 2017.
  • Imperium iam tandem Italiae restitutum est. Latein im faschistischen Italien – das Beispiel der Reden Mussolinis • Metageitnia, Bern, 20–21 January 2017.
  • Lapis est quodcunque vides – Landschaft und Wunder in Thomas Hobbes‘ De mirabilibus Pecci • Guest Talk Tübingen, 13 January 2017.
  • (with William Barton:) Landschaft auf Latein • TuBA VII-Workshop “Landschaftsnarrative in Antike und früher Neuzeit”, Basel, 21–22 October 2016.
  • Italia novi rerum ordinis auctrix! Assurge! Das faschistische Imperium in lateinischen Übersetzungen der Ducereden • Conference „FASCIVM DECVS SVPERBVM. Neo-Latin in the ventennio fascista“, Brixen, 7–8 October 2016.
  • Horatian Journeys through Early Modern England • Classical Association Conference, Edinburgh, 6–9 April 2016.
  • Itinera Borealia – Horatian Journeys through Early Modern England • RSA Conference, Boston, 31 March–2 April 2016.
  • Landschaft und Land: Die Konzeptualisierung eines vereinten Großbritannien in Landesbeschreibungen des 16. und 17. Jhs. • IANLS Congress, Vienna, 2–7 August 2015.
  • Frühe Nationallandschaften: neulateinische Texte aus England • 2. Montafoner Gipfeltreffen, Partenen, 15–19 June 2015.
  • Macro- vs. microhistory: the Tyrolean Menippean satire as a regional literary genre • Conference „Croatica et Tyrolensia. A digital comparison of Croatian and Tyrolean neo-Latin literature“, Split, 22–23 April 2015.
  • Auf den Spuren des Horaz durch das neuzeitliche England • XXXVI Metageitnia, Tübingen, 23–24 January 2015.
  • Digital Humanities und Neulateinische Forschung: Methodische Überlegungen zur digitalen Edition am Beispiel der Croatica et Tyrolensia • Conference “Editors at Work – Experiences and Problems with Neo-Latin Texts”, Innsbruck, 4–5 December 2014.
  • Der Philosoph in den englischen Alpen – Thomas Hobbes und die Wunder des Peak District  • DAV-Congress 2014, Innsbruck, 22–25 April 2014.
  • Wunder der Heimat – Salvaing de Boissieu und die Septem miracula der Dauphiné.  • XXXV Metageitnia, Fribourg, 17–18 January 2014.
  • Maximilian I. bezwingt das Gebirge: Der Magnanimus des Richardus Sbrulius. • 1. Montafoner Gipfeltreffen, Schruns, 7–11 October 2013.
  • The Seven Wonders of the Peak • RSA Conference, San Diego, 4–6 April 2013.
  • Praising the English Alps – Thomas Hobbes’ Neo-Latin poem De mirabilibus Pecci carmen (1627) • Workshop “Intercultural Transfers”, Innsbruck, 28–29 January 2013.
  • Discovering the Peak: A Philological Approach to Thomas Hobbes’s De mirabilibus Pecci • APA Conference, Seattle, 3–6 January 2013.
  • De mirabilibus Pecci carmen (1627). Thomas Hobbes und die Sieben Wunder des Peak District • Conference Laetae Segetes III, Brno, 13–16 November 2012.
  • Berge und Gebirge in der Antike • Workshop „’Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory?’ – Die Berge in Antike und Neuzeit“, Innsbruck, 16 October 2012.
  • (with William Barton:) Calceolarius and Pona: Multi-lingual Descriptions of Monte Baldo • Workshop “Neo-Latin and Vernacular Language”, Innsbruck, 7–8 September 2012.
  • De Montium Admiratione. Von italienischen Dichtern, Schweizer Naturforschern und englischen Philosophen • Forschungskolloquium im Brenner Archiv, Innsbruck, 19–20 April 2012.
  • Hic furor, hic rabies, hic sunt tua crimina, Caesar (Lucan. VII 551) – Caesar-Rezeption in Lucans Schilderung der Schlacht von Pharsalos • Offenes Forschungskolloquium zur Römischen Geschichte, Innsbruck, 17 January 2012.
  • Antike Schlachtenschilderungen – Die Darstellung von Pharsalos in der lateinischen und griechischen Literatur • 13. Österreichischer Althistorikerinnen- und Althistorikertag, 18–20 November 2010.
Conference Organisation
  • (with Simone De Angelis, Graz / Wolfgang Kofler, Innsbruck): “Alte, neue Autoritäten im Dienst der Selbstdarstellung neulateinischer Autor*innen”. 26th NeoLatina conference, Innsbruck, 24–25 September 2026.
  • (with Sara Miglietti, Warburg Institute): Emotional Persuasion in Early Modern Science. Neo-Latin and Vernacular Perspectives, Warburg Institute, London, 15–16 May 2025.
  • ERC-Workshop “Pathos in Neo-Latin Scientific Literature”, Innsbruck, 12–13 November 2021.
  • (with Sebastian Fink:) “Battle Descriptions as Literary Texts”, Innsbruck, 15–17 May 2017.
  • Co-organised LBI-Conference “Editors at Work – Experiences and Problems with Neo-Latin Texts”, Innsbruck, 4–5 December 2014.
  • Co-organised LBI-Conference “The Tradition of Dedication in the Neo-Latin World”, Freiburg i.Br., 5–6 December 2013.
  • Workshop “‘Mountain Gloom and Mountain Glory?’ – Die Berge in Antike und Neuzeit”, Innsbruck, 16 October 2012.
  • Co-organised LBI-Conference “Neo-Latin and Vernacular Language and Culture: Approaches and Issues”, Innsbruck, 7–8 September 2012.
  • Co-organised Conference of the Colloquium on Roman History “Erinnerung bewahren, Geschichte schaffen in der Römischen Republik. Vermittlung von Vergangenem in Ritualen, Münzen und Texten”, Innsbruck, 14 March 2011.
Management of third party funded projects
  • Erica Cremer Project: Winning Them Over. Ancient Rhetoric and Early Modern Science (02/2023–01/2027)
  • Sub-Project 4 : Latin of Queens, Abbesses, Scientists: Women’s Voices in Neo-Latin
Outreach (most recent and project-related)
  • Lateinische Autorinnen. Highlights einer vergessenen Literatur • Workshop at the Akademisches Gymnasium Innsbruck, 6 February 2026.
  • Lateinische Autorinnen. Highlights einer vergessenen Literatur • Workshop at the Gymnasium BORG Schwaz, 4 February 2026.
  • Lateinische Autorinnen • Workshop at the Gymnasium BORG Fallmerayerstraße, Innsbruck, 14 January 2026.
  • Lateinische Autorinnen • Workshop at the Gymnasium BORG Fallmerayerstraße, Innsbruck, 5 March 2025.

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