Luke Roman, Memorial University of Newfoundland

Research

space Renaissance Latin poetry poetry and place Renaissance humanism the spatial turn the classical tradition urbanism and architecture in Renaissance Italy classical architecture

Latest funding

Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
$105,257
The place of the classics: receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity from Newfoundland to Nigeria
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
$24,365
Humanist topographies: the classical poetics of place in Renaissance Italy
SSHRC · 2017 · Principal investigator
$46,013

All 3 grants and awards

Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada

Principal investigatorSSHRC2023Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Roman, Luke

Keywords: Classics; globalization; global Classics; network-building; classical adaptations of Greek tragedies; African theatre; classical reception studies; comparatist studies; Nigeria; Ghana; Canada; post-colonial literature; Global South and Global North

$105,257

The place of the classics: receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity from Newfoundland to Nigeria

Principal investigatorSSHRC2018Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Roman, Luke

Keywords: classics; Greco-Roman antiquity; classical reception; classical tradition; place; space; geography; post-colonial studies; Newfoundland; Canada; Nigeria; Ghana; African classics

$24,365

Humanist topographies: the classical poetics of place in Renaissance Italy

Principal investigatorSSHRC2017Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Roman, Luke

Keywords: Renaissance Latin poetry; poetry and place; Renaissance humanism; the spatial turn; the classical tradition; urbanism and architecture in Renaissance Italy; classical architecture; theories of place; space; and monumentality; literary theory

$46,013

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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Subject: Prospective PhD student: space Dear Professor Roman, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. Your research on space connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] I also saw your SSHRC-funded project "Classics at the Crossroads: Partnership, Mobility, and Exchange Between Ghana, Nigeria, and Canada" (2023), and I would be glad to contribute to work in that direction. Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]