Karin Schlapbach

Karin Schlapbach holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Zurich. She joined the Institut du monde antique et byzantin at the University of Fribourg in 2017 after teaching classics for nine years in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has also occupied research positions at various institutions in the USA, the UK, and Germany. Her research focuses on the literature of the imperial period and late antiquity and she has published widely on dance...See more

Karin Schlapbach holds a PhD in Classics from the University of Zurich. She joined the Institut du monde antique et byzantin at the University of Fribourg in 2017 after teaching classics for nine years in the Department of Classics and Religious Studies at the University of Ottawa. She has also occupied research positions at various institutions in the USA, the UK, and Germany. Her research focuses on the literature of the imperial period and late antiquity and she has published widely on dance and pantomime, philosophical prose, and the modern reception of late antiquity. See less