Peter Kruschwitz


Peter Kruschwitz FHEA FRHistS M.A.E. is Professor of Ancient Cultural History at the University of Vienna. He specialises in Roman poetic culture and song culture with a particular focus on Latin verse inscriptions and non-elite cultural practice. He has published widely on Roman comedy, Latin linguistics and Roman linguistic discourse, the wall inscriptions of Pompeii and Herculaneum, and Roman metre.

Education

Kruschwitz studied Classical Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin, where he was awarded his PhD in 1999. His doctoral thesis, supervised by :de:Gabriele_Thome|Gabriele Thome, was entitled 'Carmina Saturnia Epigraphica: Einleitung, Text und Kommentar zu den saturnischen Versinschriften'.

Career

Already during his doctoral studies Kruschwitz began to work as a member of research staff of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In 2007 Kruschwitz was appointed Lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading, where he was promoted to Reader in Classics in 2009 and to Professor of Classics in 2011.
Kruschwitz has been awarded numerous fellowships, visiting positions, and research grants. In 2005 Kruschwitz was awarded a two-year Emmy Noether postdoctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft which he spent at the University of Oxford. In 2007 Kruschwitz was a Visiting Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. In 2014 Kruschwitz was awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship. In 2018 Kruschwitz was a visiting professor at the University of Seville. Kruschwitz is academician of the Pontifical Academy for Latin and a full member of the Academia Europaea. In 2019 Kruschwitz was awarded a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project on 'Mapping out the poetic landscape of the Roman empire'.
Kruschwitz is member of the editorial board of Bryn Mawr Classical Review and .
Kruschwitz was appointed Professor of Ancient Cultural History at the University of Vienna in 2019.

Monographs and edited volumes