dr. Klazina Staat

Klazina Staat is Assistant Professor of Latin Literature and Roman Cultural History at VU Amsterdam. Her research interests include: 

Latin in the European tradition • classical, late antique, and early medieval literatures and their receptions • Latin and Greek hagiography and patristics • travel literature • literacy of women and workers • texts in their material contexts • mountains and the view from above • human-nature relations • medieval art and books • ancient and modern literary theory • narratology and ecocriticism

Staat obtained her PhD from Ghent University (2019). Her dissertation focused on concepts of belief in late antique hagiography, particularly stories about chaste couples. The research was conducted within the framework of the ERC-project 'Novel Saints', led by Koen De Temmerman. She received a  junior postdoc grant from the Research Foundation– Flanders (FWO) to conduct the research project ‘Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guidebook (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ at Ghent University, Belgium (2019-2021). She has also been a postdoctoral researcher within the project 'Total Devotion: Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World', led by Laura Feldt at the University of Southern Denmark-SDU and funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark (2021-2023). 

Staat serves on the board of the Dutch Association for the Study of Early Christianity (Genootschap Oudchristelijke Studiën) and the Academic Advisory Board of the Royal Netherlandish Institute in Rome. She is member of the editorial boards of Roma Aeterna and the Translated Monastic Text series of Damon Publishers.

Staat teaches in the various programmes offered by the Amsterdam Centre for Ancient Studies and Archaeology-ACASA, a collaborative initiative of VU University and the University of Amsterdam:

• BA in Classics
• BA in Ancient Studies
• MA and Research MA in Classics and Ancient Civilizations
• Research MA in Classics and Ancient Civilizations

In addition, she contribute to courses in the BA in History at VU Amsterdam.

• Stichting Oudchristelijke Studiën | Utrecht | Bestuurder | 2021-03-01 - present
• Lid Redactieraad Roma Aeterna | Amsterdam | Lid redactieraad | 2023-01-01 - present
• Monastieke Reeks Damon | Utrecht | Lid Redactieraad | 2023-01-01 - present
• Wetenschappelijke Adviesraad Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome | Rome | Lid wetenschappelijke adviesraad | 2026-01-01 - present

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