Anke Walter

Anke Walter is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Newcastle University. Her primary research interests are the construction of time in ancient literature, stories of origin, and ancient (especially Latin) epic poetry. She completed her PhD in Heidelberg in 2011, with a thesis on storytelling in Flavian epic (published as 'Erzählen und Gesang im flavischen Epos', Berlin 2014) and her 'Habilitation' at Rostock in 2018, with a thesis on 'Time in Ancient Stories of Origin' (published with OUP in 2020). Anke has (co-)edited volumes on stories of origin, ancient narrative and exemplarity, literature and religion, and the temporality of festivals.