Curriculum Vitae Ophelia Norris

Since 10/2021 PhD Candidate LMU Munich, IDK Philology
09/2020–08/2021 Graduate Honours Interdisciplinary Studies Student (Master’s Level), Utrecht University, NL
09/2019–08/2021 MA in Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Medieval History Track), Utrecht University, NL
09/2016–08/2019 BA in History, King’s College, London, UK
2016 A Levels

10/2020–11/2020 Student Assistant for Prof. Francesco Stella’s Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy Series Publications, Utrecht University, NL
04/2020–07/2020 Student Assistant of Dr. Janneke Raaijmakers in the Utrecht-Poitiers MEDNAME Project, Utrecht University, NL

01/2024 Conference co-organisation with Sophie Seidler (ProLit, LMU) and Prof. Juliane Prade-Weiss (AVL, LMU), “Secular Saints: Practices of Awe and Veneration in Hagiography and Pop-Culture”
07/2023 Leeds IMC Panel/Session co-organisation with Eduard Visintini (DFG-GRK; Mainz), “Marginality and the Written Word in the Merovingian World”
09/2020–08/2021 Opleidingscommissie, Utrecht University (Scholarship)

Ophelia Norris: The Creation of Community through Epitaphs: The Case of Early Medieval Lyon. In: Mayke de Jong/Albrecht Diem/Irene van Renswoude (Eds.): Connecting People: Saints, Relics and Communities in the Early Medieval World – In Memory of Janneke Raaijmakers. Renovatio – Studies in the Carolingian World. Budapest [accepted, forthcoming], pp. 1–25.
Ophelia Norris: English Translation of Vincent Debiais: Introduction. In: Estelle Ingrand-Varenne/Elisa Pallottini/Janneke Raaijmakers (Eds.): Writing Names in Medieval Sacred Spaces. Inscriptions in the West, from Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages (Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy 56. Turnhout 2023), pp. 1–8.
Teun van Dijk/Ophelia Norris/Eduard Visintini: “Bellum Catilinae” by Sallust. In: Bart Jaski (Ed.): Utrecht University Library, Special Collections. March 2021. (for online version click here)

09/2023 “Breath of life, soul of death: Interpretations of neṗēš, anima, and pysche in Jewish funerary texts of the Graeco-Roman World”, Allegories of Breathing Conference, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
07/2023 “Jewish Epitaphs in Merovingian Gaul: Identity and Identification”, Leeds IMC, University of Leeds
05/2023 “Friends, I Wait for You Here. The Problem of Categorising the Catacombs of Rome”, New Testament Colloquium, LMU Munich
06/2022 “Dis Manibus with Ethrogim: Composite Identities and Jews in the Funerary Epitaphs of the Late Antique Roman Catacombs”, Europaeum Classics Colloquium, Copenhagen
06/2022 “Have Courage, No One Is Immortal: Imagining post-mortem existence in Judaism and early Christianity with perspectives from London, Utrecht, and Munich”, Ancient History Colloquium, LMU Munich
07/2021 “Practiced but not taught: Categorising Relics in the Twelfth Century”, Leeds IMC, University of Leeds