Johanna Schubert

PhD candidate - 1st cohort
Classical Philology/ Latin
Classical Philology/ Greek

Johanna Schubert is a doctoral researcher in the DFG Research Training Group 2792 „Autonomy of Heteronomous Texts in Antiquity and the Middle Ages“ at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Her thesis focuses on Aulus Gellius’s Noctes Atticae, whose form and content will be analysed for heteronomous practices. As a work of the 2nd century AD, the Noctes Atticae position themselves as heirs to a tradition that is to be received, rediscovered and renewed. The aim of the thesis is to grasp the knotting techniques between old and new and to determine their significance for the work as a whole. Johanna Schubert holds a Bachelor’s degree in Latin Philology and Politics (teaching degree) from the Free University of Berlin (FU) and a Master’s degree in Classics, also from the FU, with a thesis on Seneca’s Epistulae morales (epist. 105). She has worked as a student assistant at the FU and at the Corpus Coranicum (BBAW). Her research interests lie in Latin philology, especially the Roman imperial period, in literary theory, and in the art of citation in antiquity.

Johanna Schubert

Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
GRK 2792 (Theologische Fakultät)
Fürstengraben 6
07743 Jena

Academia
ORCID 0000-0003-2543-9944
johanna.schubert@uni-jena.de
+49 3641 942807

Research project

Collecting, arranging, commenting, with these and other words Aulus Gellius describes the program of his Noctes Atticae (NA), which he wrote in the 2nd century AD. And as a mere collection his work was considered for a long time: Bits of knowledge were extracted, first used for realia studies, then received as writings of authors thought to be lost.

My planned dissertation aims at highlighting the independent achievement of the author, who was thus also considered to have rhetorical skills, and at analyzing not the pre-texts per se, but their use in the Gellian text – which I provisionally refer to as citation. This is followed by initial questions: What is paraphrased, where is it quoted verbatim, when are sources cited? The answer is supported by previous works of the last centuries, which diligently collected such traces of foreign parts, but did not attribute a genuine creative power to the author. This will be done in order to understand the knotting techniques with which Gellius designs his intricate educational networks.

In addition to the microscopic view of individual chapters, the embedding of these chapters in larger contexts will be investigated. How do chapters relate to each other? Do clusters form that relate to each other in a certain way not (only) thematically, but through their structure? How does Gellius arrange his penus („stock“) so that nothing is overlooked? These questions also touch on the included chapter headings, which function as an index of works.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

since Jan. 2023 PhD-Canditate (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena). Supervisors: Prof. Meinolf Vielberg, Prof. Rainer Thiel, Prof. Melanie Möller

Oct. 2018 – Dec. 2022 Master of Arts Classical Philology (FU Berlin)

Oct. 2011 – Feb. 2019 Bachelor of Arts Classical Philology and Politics with option to teach (FU Berlin)

Positions at University and Academy

June 2019 – Dec. 2022 Research Assistant (Michael Marx, project Corpus Coranicum at BBAW)

Nov. 2017 – Febr. 2018 Contracts for the application of project Corpus Coranicum Christianum (supervisor Dr. Manolis Ulbricht, FU Berlin)

April 2017 – April 2020 Student Assistant (Prof. Melanie Möller, Chair of Latin Philology at FU Berlin)

Juni 2017 – Mai 2019 Deputy Student Member of the Department Council of the Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie (FU Berlin)

Okt. – Febr. 2016 Research Intern (Berliner Byzantinistik, FU Berlin)

Sept. & Oct. 2016 Collaboration on the application for the central teaching award 2016 „forschungsorientiert & digital“ der FU Berlin (applicant: Dr. Manolis Ulbricht) – Official recognition of the teaching project „Digitalisierung der Philologie – Das Corpus Coranicum Christianum“ durch den Präsidenten der FU Berlin

Oct. 2014 – June 2017 Mentor für Latin philology (FU Berlin)

Publications

Schubert, Johanna, „Ibis“, in: Melanie Möller (ed.): Handbuch Ovid, Stuttgart 2021, 112–115, https://rdcu.be/cXRv1.

Schubert, Johanna/Engels, Vera, „Mensch und Welt“, in: Melanie Möller (ed.): Handbuch Ovid, Stuttgart 2021, 181–187, https://rdcu.be/cXRvt.

Schubert, Johanna, „Periplus Maris Erythraei, §16. fulk (ar.) und epholkion (gr.). TUK 1562“, in: Michael Marx, BBAW (ed.): Corpus Coranicum. Texte aus der Umwelt des Koran, Berlin/Potsdam 2022, https://corpuscoranicum.de/de/verse-navigator/sura/2/verse/164/intertexts/1562.

forthcoming:

Schubert, Johanna, „Akademie“, in: Manfred Landfester/Melanie Möller/Michael Thimann (Hgg.): Das 19. Jahrhundert. Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in der frühen Moderne (1800–1914) (DNP Suppl.) (bei den Hgg. eingereicht).

Schubert, Johanna, „Altertumswissenschaftliche Institute“, in: Manfred Landfester/Melanie Möller/Michael Thimann (Hgg.): Das 19. Jahrhundert. Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in der frühen Moderne (1800–1914) (DNP Suppl.) (bei den Hgg. eingereicht).

Schubert, Johanna, „Universität“, in: Manfred Landfester/Melanie Möller/Michael Thimann (Hgg.): Das 19. Jahrhundert. Lexikon zur Antikerezeption in der frühen Moderne (1800–1914) (DNP Suppl.) (bei den Hgg. eingereicht).

forthcoming:

Schubert, Johanna, „Anecdotal agon. Using carmina minora as Rhetorical Weapons in Noctes Atticae 19, 9“, in: Margot Neger/Chiara DiSerio (Hgg.): Greek and Latin carmina minora in Context: The Situational Flexibility of Ancient ‘Minor Poetry’ (bei den Hgg. eingereicht).

Marx, Michael/Schubert, Johanna/Strauch, Timo/Yakup, Abdurishid, „Antikentransformation“, in: Christoph Markschies (ed.), BBAW-Bericht 2020/21, Berlin 2022, 80 f.

Presentations

„Alles nur Agon?! Gellius als Kritiker zwischen Zustimmung und Ablehnung“, 26. Aquilonia, FU Berlin, 24 June 2023.

„Aulus Gellius’ 398 Worte des Widerstands. Wieviel Eigenständigkeit steckt in der Kritik?“, im Forschungskolloquium GRK 2792, 8 May 2023.

„Anecdotal agon. Gellius as Listener, Reader, and Critic of Poems“, conference: Greek and Latin carmina minora in context, 18 March 2023.

Vortrag im Forschungscolloquium Latinistik und Mittellatein der FU Berlin, 24 November 2022.

zusammen mit Schnöpf, Markus „Praktischer Umgang mit Forschungsdaten am Abend eines Akademienvorhabens am Beispiel des Corpus Coranicum“, Workshop AG eHumanities der Akademienunion „Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschungsdaten“, 11 November 2022.

zusammen mit Nagel, Denise, „apes enim ego divinas bestias puto, quae mel vomunt (Petron 56, 6) – Wissen, Nutzen und Ästhetik der Biene in antiker griechisch-römischer Literatur“, 30. Jahrestagung der DGGTB 2022: Biologie und Literatur, 24 June 2022.

„zotero – digital bibliography of Qurʾānic studies“, Workshop Digital Tools for Studying the Text of the Quran, 14 June 2022.

„Zur Funktion der Spiegelung in Ovids Ibis“, Forschungscolloquium Latinistik und Mittellatein der FU Berlin, 14 February 2019.

zusammen mit Litke, Katharina, Vortrag zu Gregor von Tours, Andreasakten, Nachwuchsforum Latein 2018, 14 April 2018.

zusammen mit Litke, Katharina, „Ovid, Ibis (V. 571–642)“, Nachwuchsforum Latein 2017, 29 April 2017.

zusammen mit Litke, Katharina, „Ovids Ibis (V. 571–644)“, Forschungscolloquium Latinistik und Mittellatein der FU Berlin.

„Für und wider den grammaticus. Die Noctes Atticae als unordentliche Enzyklopädie“, Conference „Wissenschaftssprache, Fachlexikographie, Fachdokumentation. Geschichte und Tendenzen“, Arbeitskreis HiGeWiS, 1–2 February 2024.

„Werkstattgespräch: Wie entwickle ich eine Forschungsfrage? Aulus Gellius als Autor des 2. Jh. n. Chr.“, Seminar „Buch und Bibliothek“ (Prof. Meike Rühl, Universität Osnabrück), 19 Januar 2024.

„Die Streitkultur in Aulus Gellius‘ Noctes Atticae“, Forschungskolloquium GRK 2792 (FSU Jena), 20 November 2023.

„Von Apophthegma bis Zitat. Formen der Heteronomie in Aulus Gellius‘ Noctes Atticae“, Workshop „Theorie und Text“ (Prof. Verena Schulz, Eichstätt/ Prof. Andreas Schwab, Kiel), 9 October 2023.

„Acting quotes; reading people. Quotation as an Instrument of Agonistic Organization“, Conference „sapiens ubique civis X“ (Universität Szeged, Hungary), 30 August–1 September 2023.

„Bildungskonzepte bei Aulus Gellius“, Seminar „Bildungskonzepte in der lateinischen Literatur“ (Prof. Matthias Perkams, FSU Jena), 27 June 2023.

Posterpresentation

„Von Apophthegma bis Zitat. Formen der Heteronomie in Aulus Gellius’ Noctes Atticae“, Eröffnungsveranstaltung des GRK 2792: Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter, 10 January 2023