Past Recipients of ISHR Research Grants
2023 Research Grant Recipients
Dr Pierre Balmond (Université Paris Nanterre, France)
Project Title> Du pathos au mouere: enquête sur les mutations hellénistiques de l’émotion rhétorique
Dr Nicoletta Bruno (Ludwig Bolzmann Institute for Neolatin Studies, Innsbruck, Austria)
Project Title>The Rhetoric and Power of Silence in Tacitus
Dr Giulia Dovico (University of Hamburg, Germany)
Project Title>Figurative Language in Ancient Greek Rhetoric through the Eyes of the Ancient Commentators
Dr Thierry Hirsch (independent scholar, Luxembourg)
Project Title> Cicero’s De Inventione: Translation, introduction, and commentary
Prof. Christina Matthiesen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Project Title> Ellen Key and the Rhetorical Tradition: Aesthetics and Community
Elia Otranto (University of Granada, Spain)
Project Title> Pythagoras as a Master of Invective in the GreekBiographical Literature of the Imperial Age.
2022 Research Grant Recipients
Roberta Berardi (University of Oxford – United Kingdom)
Project Title> Ancient Greek Oratory and Erotikà
Artemis Brod (Indepedent Scholar – USA)
Project Title> Recounting the Waves: Water in Aelius Aristides' Rhetorical Corpus
Mariano Dagatti (CONICET/University of Entre Rios - Argentina)
Project Title> Understandings and misunderstandings. The correspondence between Kenneth Burke and Wayne Booth
Elisiana Fratocchi (Sapienza, Università di Roma - Italy)
Project Title> Political and gender rhetoric in women's writings of anti-fascism: pamphlets, newspapers, leaflets.
Ifigeneia Giannadaki (University of Florida – USA)
Project Title> Portraits of resident aliens (metics): metics in Athenian forensic oratory and society
Rosaleen Keefe (Old Dominion University – Norfolk – USA)
Project Title> Thomas Gordon, Universal Grammar, and the Metaphysics of Rhetoric in the Scottish Enlightenment
Fabrizio Petorella (Istituto italiano per la Storia antica – Roma - Italy)
Project Title> The Pious Martyr and the Sacrilegious Emperor: A Historical and Rhetorical Analysis of John Chrysostom’s Homily on St. Babylas, against Julian and the Pagans
Michela Piccin (North-West University – South Africa)
Project Title> Linguistic Fireworks in Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and Babylonian Theodicy: Riot of Rhetorical Linguistic Devices
Baukje Van den Berg (Central European University – Austria)
Project Title> Hermogenes in Byzantium: Exegetical Strategies and Intellectual Trends in the Commentary of Gregory Pardos
Mengzhen Yue (Shandong University – China)
Project Title> Aristotle’s Rhetoric in China: Translation, Politics, and Abridgement
2021 Research Grant Recipients
Myrto ALOUMPI - University of Crete, Greece
Project Title> The Rhetoric of Assimilation: Foreigners and the Shaping of Athenian citizenship
Artur COSTRINO - Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brasil
Project Title> Imperiales Quaestiones: an examination of the sources and the context of the writing on rhetoric through the Carolingian empire
Giulia GERBI - University Ca'Foscari – Venise, Italy
Project Title> Niceforo Basilace tra scuola e retorica
Serena MAURIELLO - University of Rome Sapienza, Italy
Project Title> Alain of Lille's Summa de Arte Praedicatoria: an Historical and Critical Commentary. With a Manuscript Survey
Thierry OPPENEER - Ghent University, Belgium
Project Title> The political uses of imperial Greek rhetoric: Hermogenes’ idea- and stasis-theory in the popular assembly
Michelle ZALESKI - Marymount University, USA
Project Title> The Indigenous Rhetorical Returns of Jesuit Education: Enseñassen lo que en la Escuela Deprendían”
2020 Research Grant Recipients
Julie DAINVILLE - Université libre de Bruxelles
Project Title > La théorie rhétorique dans les sources papyrologiques
Jeffrey DYMOND - University of California - UCLA
Project Title > Ciceronian Rhetoric in Italian Political Thought, c. 1235 - c. 1358
Giulia MALTAGLIATI - University of London
Project Title > Unstable Pasts: the productive flexibility of historical examples in Attic oratory
Lea NICCOLAI- University of Cambridge
Project Title > The Rhetoric of Reason in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire
Arjan NIJK - Leiden University
Project Title > Iconicity in discourse: Phonological and prosodic mimesis in classical rhetoric?
Zachary SHARP - University of Texas
Project Title > Rhetoric, Poetics, and the Devotional Lyric in Early Modern England
2019 Research Grant Recipients
Mattia Chiriatti (Universidad de Alcalá - SPAIN)
Project Title > Los βασιλικοὶ λόγοι de Gregorio de Nisa
Curry Kennedy (Pennsylvania State University - USA)
Project Title > Religion and Rhetorical Education in Early Modern England
Bess Myers (University of Memphis – USA)
Project Title > Wandering Words: Rhetorical Theory in Plato's Timaeus
Catherine Psilakis (Université de Lyon - FRANCE)
Project Title > Usages politiques de l’antiquité dans la rhétorique grecque contemporaine
2018 Research Grant Recipients
Claudia Brunello - (Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy)
Project Title > Dal ragionamento alla persuasione: retorica dell’esempio e modelli argomentativi in Isocrate
Jakub Filonik - (Jagiellonian University, Krakóz, Poland)
Project Title > The rhetoric of citizenship in Athenian democracy: a cognitive approach
Alessandra Palla - (Università di Pisa - Universität Hamburg, Italia - Deutschland)
Project Title > Dagli στοιχεῖα alla σύνθεσις: Platone negli Opuscula Rhetorica di Dionigi di Alicarnasso
Benoit Sans - (Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgique)
Project Title > De Polybe à Tite-Live, en passant par la rhétorique : la campagne de Scipion en Afrique (Pol. XIV-XV ; Liv. XXX)
2017 Research Grant Recipients
Timothy Barr (University of Pittsburgh - USA)
Project Title > Medicina Mentis: Medicine and Topics in Sixteenth-Century Humanism
Vanessa Lim (Queen Mary University of London - UNITED KINGDOM)
Project Title > Shakespearean Deliberation, c. 1600-10
Jordan Loveridge (Mount St. Mary's University - USA)
Project Title > A Probable Logic: Emotion, Sensation, and Persuasion in Medieval Rhetoric and Poetic
Amedeo Raschieri (University of Milan - ITALY)
Project Title > Towards a rhetorical Latin lexicon (Part 1: Late Republic)
2016 Research Grant Recipients
Martin CAMPER (Loyola University Maryland - USA)
Project Title How the Bible's Meaning Changes: Argument and Controversy in the Christian Church
Alberto QUIROGA (Universidad de Granada – España)
Project Title The Poetics of Distorted of Specula Episcoporum in Socrates Scholasticus' HE
Kathryn TEMPEST (University of Roehampton - UNITED KINGDOM)
Project Title The Pseudepigrapha of M. Iunius Brutus and Mithridates: The Use of Letters in Diplomatic Oratory and Rhetorical Education
Alessandro VATRI (University of Oxford - UNITED KINGDOM)
Project Title: Rhetorical ethos and musical ethos in classical Greek thought
2015 Research Grant Recipients
Fabio Giunta - University of Bologna (Italy)
Title of proposed project : La retorica degli affetti di Quintiliano nella trattatistica italiana fra Cinque e Seicento
Christos Kremmydas - University of London (England)
Title of proposed project: Detecting verbal deception in the speeches of Demosthenes and Aeschines On the Embassy
Florin Leonte (Central European University Budapest (Hungary)
Title of proposed project: Enargeia and Synesthesia: The Rhetoric of Experience in Late Byzantium (c. 1300-1453)
Giovanna Longo (University of Cassino (Italy)
Title of proposed project: [Dionigi di Alicarnasso], Sugli errori che si commettono nelle declamazioni (Περὶ τῶν á¼ν μελá½³ταις πλημμελουμá½³νων). Saggio introduttivo, testo greco, traduzione e commento
2014 Research Grant Recipients
Ana Isabel Correia Martins - Centro de Estudios Clássicos e Humanísticos da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal)
Title of Proposed Project: Apophthegmatic Literature in Portuguese Humanism: The Rhetoric of loci communes and the Pedagogy of genus sententiarum
Fiammetta Papi - Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Italy)
Title of Proposed Project: Vernacular Rhetoric in Late Medieval Italy. A manuscript-based study of the Aristotelian tradition
Hany Rashwan - School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (UK)
Title of Proposed Project: The role of Comparative Rhetoric in reconstructing the philosophical and literary rhetorical systems of ancient Egypt
Abraham Romney - Michigan Technological University (USA)
Title of Proposed Project: Rhetoric in the Archives of Chile
2013 Research Grant Recipients
Francesco Berardi - Università di Chieti-Pescara (Italy)
Title of Proposed Project: Glossario dei Progymnasmata
Amitava Chakraborty - University of Delhi (India)
Title of Proposed Project: Rebuilding the History of Rhetoric in Ancient India
Thierry Hirsch - University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
Title of Proposed Project: A Commentary on Cic.Inu.1.34-96
Bart Huelsenbeck – (Ball State University - Indiana USA)
Title of Proposed Project: Figures in the Shadows: Literary Identities of Roman Declaimers
Biagio Santorelli – (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Italy)
Title of Proposed Project: [Quintilianus], Declamationes maiores, 11 (pauper et dives inimici) and 16 (amici vades). Introductory Essay, Text, Translation, and Commentary
2012 Research Grant Recipients
Mina Tasseva Bencheva - (Université de Strasbourg - France)
Title of Proposed Project: La notion de «discours sacré» dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine
Laura Carlson - (Queen's University, Kingston - Canada)
Title of Proposed Project: Charlemagne & the Birth of Medieval Eloquence: The Transmission of Rhetorical Texts & Their Influence on the Carolingian West (750-850)
Paolo Di Meo - (Università di Chieti-Pescara - Italy)
Title of Proposed Project: Ei gameteon: la donna e il matrimonio nella tradizione retorica
Morris Tichenor - (University of Toronto - Canada)
Title of Proposed Project: Cicero's Orator ad M. Brutum in Its Medieval and Early Renaissance Commentary Tradition
2011 Research Grant Recipients
Delphine Lauritzen
Title of Proposed Project: “Rhétorique et poétique au VIe siècle byzantin: édition critique, traduction française et commentaire des Anacréontiques de Jean de Gaza
Luigi Pirovano
Title of Proposed Project: Emporii oratoris excerpta rhetorica. Critical edition, translation and commentary
Domenico Losappio
Title of Proposed Project: Magistri Guicciardi Bononiensis Recollecte super Poetria magistri Gualfredi. Edizione critica
Title of Proposed Project: The Selected Writings of George Jardine
2010 Research Grant Recipients
Title of Proposed Research Project: Constructing a Roman Sophistopolis: Narrative, Equity, and Community in the Pseudo-‐Quintilianic Major Declamations
Title of Proposed Research Project: [Quintilianus], Declamationes maiores, 4: Mathematicus (The Astrologer). Introductory essay, text, translation, and commentary”
Title of Proposed Research Project: Melanchthon’s Homer: Rhetorical Reading and the Literary Culture of the Reformation
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Part of a Landmark Series: John Milton’s Artis Logicae Plenior Institutio (1672)
2008 Research Grant Recipients
Research Fellowships (US$6000)
Manfred Kraus, Early Modern Latin Translations and Adaptations of Aphthonius’ Progymnasmata
Susan Romano, Rhetoric in Colonial Mexico: The Teaching Cultures
Research Awards (US$2000)
Richard Graff, The Styling of Prose: Oratorical Performance and Rhetorical Art in Classical Greece
Victoria Pineda, Retórica e historiografía en la Edad Moderna: las colecciones de arengas
Luana Quattrocelli, Edizione critica dell'orazione pseudo-aristidea Εá¼°ς βασιλÎα (n. XXXV Keil)
Tina Skouen, Time and Aesthetic Value in Early Modern English Literature
2009 Research Grant Recipients
Research Fellowships (US$6000)
Ramón Gutiérrez González, Sulpicio Vittore, Institutiones oratoriae: edizione, traduzione e commento
Stephen J. Milner, Specture of Catiline: The Voicing of Opposition in Late Medieval and Renaissance Florence
Research Awards (US$2000)
Francesco Berardi, Scrivere e far vedere: le diverse tecniche dell' enargeia negli exercizi prepatori (Progymnasmata)
David Mirhady, Loeb Rhetorica ad Alexandrum
Webster Newbold, The English Secretary by Angel Day: A Critical Edition
Emma Annette Wilson, Ramus or Aristotle? A Pragmatic Bibliographic Reassessment of the Power Struggles and Evolution of Early Modern Logic
