Group Members
Dr Julia Jennifer Beine (Junior Research Group Leader)
Julia Jennifer Beine is an interdisciplinary researcher in the fields of Classical Philology, General and Comparative Literary Studies, and Digital Humanities. She combines these disciplines by pursuing interdisciplinary approaches in the analysis of Greco-Roman literature and its receptions in the (early) modern period.
In the JRG, she investigates the sustainability of translations of the Greco-Roman epics, with a special focus on the cultural and social sustainability of the Roman epics. To explore more than 500 years of translation history, she employs and modifies digital methods to complement close-reading analyses and vice versa.
Julia Jennifer Beine also does research on European drama from Greco-Roman antiquity until the 21st century, especially considering poetological and literary discourses. Moreover, she engages herself in the field of Computational Literary Studies, being one of the editors of the DraCor infrastructure for digital drama analysis.
Magdalena Fret, M.A. (Junior Research Group Member)
Magdalena Fret holds a B.A. in Translation and M.A. in Conference Interpreting in English and French from the University of Leipzig.
As part of the Junior Research Group “Sustainability in Translation”, she is currently working on her PhD, focusing on the German translations of the epic “Iliad” by Homer and the differences in their cultural sustainability.
Furthermore, she has a research interest in the history of interpreting in medieval times and the early modern period.
