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British classicist and art historian (born c.1972)
Caroline Vout
FSA (born c. 1972) is a British
classicist and
art historian . As of 2019
[update] she is a
Professor in classics at
the University of Cambridge and a fellow of
Christ's College . In 2021 she became Director of the
Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge .
[1]
Career
Vout was born in
Durham .
[2] She read
Classics at
Newnham College, Cambridge , graduating in 1995, before taking a
master's degree in Roman and Byzantine Art at
the Courtauld Institute .
[3] She then returned to Cambridge for her
doctorate , which was supervised by
Keith Hopkins and
Mary Beard .
Upon finishing her doctorate she lectured at the Universities of
Bristol and
Nottingham until being appointed to as a fellow of Christ's College in 2006.
[4]
She curated an exhibition on
Antinous at the
Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and is on the academic advisory panel for the department of Greek and Roman antiquities at the
Fitzwilliam Museum .
[5] She has written for
The Times Literary Supplement and
The Guardian ,
[6] and appeared on the 2011
BBC Four documentary Fig Leaf: The Biggest Cover-Up In History and on
BBC Radio 4 's
In Our Time .
Books
Antinous: the Face of the Antique . Leeds: Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, 2006.
Power and Eroticism in Imperial Rome . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
The Hills of Rome: Signature of an Eternal City . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Sex on Show: Seeing the Erotic in Greece and Rome . London: British Museum Press, 2013
Epic Visions: Visuality in Greek and Latin Epic and its Reception . (co-edited with Helen Lovet). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Exposed: the Greek and Roman Body. London: Profile Books, 2022.
Awards
References
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Dr Caroline Vout at Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
^ Vout 2012: 1
^ From 'About the author', Vout: 2006
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Dr Caroline Vout
Archived 2012-01-20 at the
Wayback Machine at website of Christ's College, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
^
Greek and Roman Gallery Project Members
Archived January 21, 2013, at the
Wayback Machine at Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Accessed 6 February 2016
^ "
The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans ".
The Guardian , 24 March 2013. Accessed 6 February 2016
^
Art History Newsletter February 2008
Archived May 15, 2012, at the
Wayback Machine
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Philip Leverhulme Prizewinners 2008
Archived 2016-02-06 at the
Wayback Machine . Leverhulme Trust, 2008. Accessed 6 February 2016
International National Academics Other