Jula Wildberger co-authored a paper on Ovid's Metamorphoses that is to appear in next spring's Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyse: a Kleinian reading of the episode on Invidia (Envy) by Helga Wildberger.

After studying and working in Germany (Frankfurt am Main, Würzburg, and Bonn) and a detour into the British academic world (University College London and Glasgow) Jula Wildberger has now settled in Paris, to work in an environment that nourishes her essentially interdisciplinary approach to classical antiquity.

She is particularly interested in the intersections between pragmatic, philosophical and literary questions, but also in the meaning our answers to such questions can have for us as intellectual and moral agents in the modern world.

Jula Wildberger started her academic career with research on Ovid's Art of Love, trying to see what happens if we treat this highly sophisticated intertextual exercise "seriously" and ask how it might "function" as a handbook of love for teenage Roman males.

Her second big research project is a new systematic reconstruction of the ancient philosophical system that is called Stoicism and an assessment of what one of the Stoic philosophers, the Roman L. Annaeus Seneca, contributes to it. Part of the work has been published in her habilitation thesis Seneca und die Stoa: Der Platz des Menschen in der Welt.

Currently, Professor Wildberger is working on two further projects: She is studying a wide range of texts containing moral exhortation that are commonly called "diatribes", asking whether it is possible to define and understand them from a pragmatic point of view, i.e. by looking at the various purposes they were intended for by their authors. The other project is concerned with Roman conceptions of masculinity, in particular the logic and internal paradoxes of the so-called "Priapic model" of masculinity.

  Books

Seneca, De ira – Über die Wut, Lateinisch /Deutsch. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2007.

Seneca und die Stoa. Der Platz des Menschen in der Welt (2 volumes). Berlin / New York: De Gruyter, 2006 (revised version of habilitation thesis).

Lukian, Symposion oder: Die Lapithen. Griechisch/Deutsch. Stuttgart: Philipp Reclam jun., 2005.

Ovids Schule der ‘elegischen’ Liebe – Erotodidaxe und Psychagogie in der Ars amatoria. Frankfurt am Main/Bern/New York: Peter Lang 1998 (revised version of dissertation for Dr. phil.).

  Articles

"Ovids Remedia amoris aus affektpsychologischer Sicht", in MARKUS JANKA/ULRICH SCHMITZER, edd., Ovid. Werk und Dichter. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2007.

"Seneca and the Stoic theory of cognition – some preliminary remarks", in KATHARINA VOLK/GARETH WILLIAMS, edd., Seeing Seneca whole: perspectives on philosophy, poetry, and politics, Leiden / Boston: Brill 2006 (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 28), 75–102.

"Quanta sub nocte iaceret nostra dies (Lucan, BC 9,13f.). Stoizismen als Mittel der Verfremdung", in CHRISTINE WALDE, ed., Lukan im 21. Jahrhundert, München/Leipzig: Saur 2005, 56–88.

"Die Überhöhung der Geliebten bei Tibull, Properz und Ovid", Gymnasium 105 (1998), 39–64.

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