Katherine Harloe Explained

Katherine Harloe is Professor of Classics and Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Previously she was Professor of Classics at the University of Reading. She is an expert on the history of classical scholarship, the reception of Greek and Roman antiquity, and the eighteenth-century German classicist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann. She is the first black professor of Classics in the UK, and the first woman director of the ICS.[1]

Education

Harloe was educated at a state school in Essex, and did not receive a classical education. She received tuition in Latin at the weekend during sixth form, and took her GCSE Latin alongside her A-Levels. She went on to read Literae Humaniores at Magdalen College, Oxford. Harloe was awarded her PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 2004. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Franz Neumann, the Rule of Law and the Unfulfilled Promise of Classical Liberal Thought,[2] and was supervised by Raymond Geuss.[3]

Career

After completing her doctoral studies, Harloe held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Oxford (St Anne's College) and the Institute of Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition at the University of Bristol.[4] She joined the University of Reading in 2007 and was made Professor in 2019. In October 2021, she took up the post of Director of the Institute of Classical Studies.[5] [6] [7] She is the first woman to hold the post.

Harloe's principal areas of research include the reception of classical antiquity in Europe from 1750 to the present, eighteenth-century neoclassical aesthetics, the history of Homeric scholarship, and the scholarship of classical myth. Harloe is a world-leading expert on Winckelmann.[8] She published the monograph Winckelmann and the invention of antiquity: History and aesthetics in the age of Altertumswissenschaften (Oxford University Press) in 2013.[9] The work was described as 'learned, fascinating and well-written'.[10] She received a Mid-Career Fellowship from the British Academy to study Winckelmann's homoerotic love letters and their reception in the nineteenth century.[11] She is a committee member of the International Winckelmann Committee and of the International Committee of the Winckelmann-Gesellschaft.[12] [13]

Harloe has co-curated exhibitions on Winckelmann, including ‘From Italy to Britain: Winckelmann and the spread of neoclassical taste’ at St Andrew's Hall in Reading, which ran for three months in late 2017, and ‘Winckelmann and Curiosity in the 18th-Century Gentleman’s Library’ at Christ Church Upper Library in Oxford, which ran for five months in 2018. Both were curated with Amy C. Smith, while Allan Hiscutt also curated the ‘From Italy to Britain’ exhibition and Cristina Neagu. In June 2021 she hosted the programme 'Detoxifying The Classics' on BBC Radio 4.[14] Between 2021 and 2024, Harloe is principal investigator on the AHRC-funded research project 'Beyond Notability: Re-evaluating Women's Work in Archaeology, History and Heritage in Britain, 1870–1950', working alongside Amara Thornton and James Baker as co-investigators.[15]

Harloe is a co-editor of the International Journal of the Classical Tradition.[16] She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.[17] She was a founding co-chair of the Women's Classical Committee (UK) 2015–17 and served on the group's Steering Committee.[18] [19]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-06-23. New director of Institute of Classical Studies appointed. 2021-10-10. School of Advanced Study. en. 19 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210919040128/https://www.sas.ac.uk/about-us/news/new-director-institute-classical-studies-appointed. dead.
  2. Web site: Franz Neumann, the rule of law and the unfulfilled promise of classical liberal thought. - Cambridge University. idiscover.lib.cam.ac.uk. 2019-09-07.
  3. Franz Neumann, the rule of law and the unfulfilled promise of classical liberal thought. University of Cambridge. 2004-08-23. phd. Katherine. Harloe.
  4. Web site: Dr Katherine Harloe - University of Reading. The University of Reading. www.reading.ac.uk. 2019-09-07.
  5. School of Advanced Study News, “New director of Institute of Classical Studies appointed ” (Wednesday 23 June 2021)
  6. Web site: 23 June 2021. Institute of Classical Studies twitter feed.
  7. Web site: 2017-02-07. Staff. 2021-11-04. Institute of Classical Studies. en.
  8. Web site: About us. Johann Joachim Winckelmann. 2019-09-07.
  9. Book: Harloe, Katherine. Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft. 2013-08-29. Oxford University Press. 9780199695843. Classical Presences. Oxford, New York.
  10. Orrells. Daniel. December 2014. Review of: Winckelmann and the Invention of Antiquity: History and Aesthetics in the Age of Altertumswissenschaft. Classical presences. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.
  11. Web site: James Ivory In Conversation: Tales of Love and History University of Oxford. www.ox.ac.uk. 2019-09-07.
  12. Web site: Johann Joachim Winckelmann - 1717-1768. Johann Joachim Winckelmann. 2019-09-07.
  13. Web site: winckelmann-gesellschaft.com. V. Winckelmann Gesellschaft e. 2018-11-13. winckelmann-gesellschaft.com. 2019-09-07.
  14. Web site: BBC Radio 4 - Detoxifying the Classics. 2021-06-23. BBC. en-GB.
  15. Web site: About – Beyond Notability. 2021-11-04. en.
  16. Web site: International Journal of the Classical Tradition. International Journal of the Classical Tradition.
  17. Web site: Fellows -H. Royal Historical Society.
  18. Web site: Steering Committee membership. 2017-04-24. WCC-UK. 2019-09-07.
  19. Web site: Committee. WCC-UK. 2019-09-07.

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