Dr Sarah Lawrence
Charles Tesoriero Senior Lecturer in Latin , Latin Language and Literature - Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Education; School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
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Phone: +61 2 6773 2408
Email: sarah.lawrence@une.edu.au
Qualifications
PhD (USyd), BA Hons (UNE)
Awards
2017 Australian Awards for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning
2017 UNE Awards for Teaching Excellence: Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning
Teaching Areas
Unit code | Unit name |
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ANCH520 | How to Be Good: Greek and Roman Ethics |
Introduction to Classical Languages | |
Classical Languages Through Reading | |
Intermediate Classical Languages | |
Intermediate Classical Texts | |
Advanced Classical Languages | |
Advanced Classical texts | |
Classical Prose Texts | |
Classical Verse Texts | |
Classics Honours Coursework | |
Classics Honours Dissertation |
Research Interests
Dr. Lawrence's research interests include Valerius Maximus, exemplarity, Roman identity, Roman Stoicism and Classical Languages pedagogy.
Research Supervision Experience
Dr. Lawrence has supervised and examined research projects at Phd, Masters and Honours level. She has also been involved in promoting undergraduate research at UNE as one of the organisers of the Inaugural UNE Undergraduate Research Summer School (2013) and is able to supervise HDR projects in Latin language, Roman History, and Classical Languages Pedagogy.
Publications
‘Musonius Rufus: Philosophy as a Way of Life?’ in Gloyn, L. & Sellars, J. (eds.), Oxford Companion to Musonius Rufus (forthcoming).
‘Imaginary Pain: Violent Physical Damage in Seneca’s Controversiae’ in Baltussen, H., Clarke, J.R., & King, D. (eds.), Narrating Pain in the Greco-Roman World: Hippocrates to Augustine, Brill (forthcoming).
‘Carpe Diem: Seizing the Opportunties of Online Learning’ Classicum (forthcoming).
‘Livestock: Judith Wright and Virgil’s Third Georgic’ in Edney, S., & Somervell, T. (eds.), Georgic Literature and the Environment: Working Land, Reworking Genre, Routledge, 2023 199-211
‘And Now for Something Completely Different...’ in Wardle, D., & Murray, J. (eds.) Reading by Example: Valerius Maximus and the Historiography of Exempla, Brill 2022 47-72.
‘Extraordinary Slaughter: Memory and Genocide at Rome’ in Taylor, T. (ed.), The Cultural History of Genocide Vol 1: the Ancient World, Bloomsbury 2021 205-225.
2019 “Latin is for the Elite”... and other Zombie Myths’ in Runcie, C.A. & Brooks, D. (eds.), Reclaiming Education: Renewing Schools and Universities in Contemporary Western Culture. Edwin H. Lowe Publ., 2019 247-63.
S.J. Lawrence ‘Vis and Servitus: The Dark Side of Republican Oratory in Valerius Maximus’ in Steel, C. E. W., Gray, C., Balbo, A. & Marshall, R. (eds) Reading Republican Oratory: Reconstructions, Contexts, Receptions. Oxford: OUP, 2018 95-110.
S.J. Lawrence ‘Putting Torture, And Valerius Maximus, To The Test’ Classical Quarterly 66 (2016) 245-260.S.J. Lawrence ‘Dead on Time: Valerius Maximus 9.13 and Stoicism’ Antichthon 49 (2015) 135-55.
Clark, J., Gurney, L., Lawrence, S., Leece, R., Malouff, J. et.al. ‘Embedding an Institution-wide Capacity Building Opportunity around Transition Pedagogy: First Year Teaching and Learning Network Coordinators’ International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education 6.1 (2015) 107-19.
Memberships
Australasian Society for Classical Studies
Classical Association of the UK
Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies