
Assistant Professor, General Faculty
Research Interests
Inger Kuin works on the Greek literature of the Roman Empire. She is interested in the intersections during this period between religion, popular culture, and philosophy. Kuin is working on a monograph on the comic works of Lucian of Samosata, titled The Gods in Lucian: Humor, Popular Culture, and Religion in the Second Century CE. She has published an introduction to ancient religion - in Dutch - titled Leven met goden. Religie in de oudheid; it was the runner up for the 2018 Homerus Prize for the best Dutch popular book on antiquity. Kuin has co-edited several volumes, either already in print or about to appear: Strategies of Remembering in Greece Under Rome (100 BC - 100AD) (Sidestone Press, 2018); After the Crisis. Remembrance, Re-Anchoring, and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome (Bloomsbury, 2020). She has published numerous journal articles and book chapters on imperial Greek historiography, Latin epigraphy, and ancient philosophy, and is a regular contributor to Dutch newspapers and magazines.
Selected Publications (see https://virginia.academia.edu/IngerNeeltjeIreneKuin/CurriculumVitae for a full list):
Books
Articles and chapters
Personal
Kuin completed her Ph.D. in classics at New York University, after obtaining master's degrees in philosophy and journalism at the University of Amsterdam. Before coming to UVA, she taught at Dartmouth College and the University of Groningen. This year Kuin will be teaching courses on Plautus, Cicero & Catullus, and New Testament Greek, as well as a seminar on laughter and humor in ancient Greece and Rome. In her free time she can be seen around Charlottesville on her bike, carrying her cello around, or sometimes in running shoes.