Riemer Faber, University of Waterloo

Research

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Criticism of Greek and Latin Literature Hellenistic Greek and Latin Augustan Poetry Ekphrasis Neo-Latin Literature of the Renaissance and Reformation Erasmus

Latest funding

Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$18,109
Opportunities for interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic scholarship
SSHRC · 2009 · Co-investigator
$24,985
Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World
SSHRC · 2007 · Principal investigator
$24,620

All 4 grants and awards

No publications available.

Celebrity, fame, and infamy in the Hellenistic world

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014

Principal investigators: Faber, Riemer A.

Keywords: comparative social phenomena; perceptions of reputation; politicized public relations; interdisciplinary approaches to Hellenistic history and society

$18,109

Opportunities for interdisciplinarity in Hellenistic scholarship

Co-investigatorSSHRC2009International Opportunities Fund

Principal investigators: Faulkner, Andrew T.

Keywords: Hellenistic; Greece; Greek; history; literature; Italy; Rome; Latin; art; culture; interdisciplinary

$24,985

Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World

Principal investigatorSSHRC2007Aid to Research Workshops and Conferences in Canada

Principal investigators: Faber, Riemer A.

Keywords: hellenistic history; material culture; and literature; hellenistic philosophy and society; migration; cosmopolitanism; social relations; transition

$24,620

Studies in Hellenistic Greek and Latin Augustan literary descriptions of works of art

Principal investigatorSSHRC1998Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Faber, Riemer

Keywords: philology; literary criticism; intertextuality; comparative literary criticism

$11,620

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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