Sophie Emilia Seidler receives Gender and Agency Award

12.12.2019

Sophie Emilia Seidler has won the ‘Gender and Agency Award’ of the University of Vienna for her 2019 MA thesis in Comparative Literature. Her title was "Hunger nach Individualität. Strukturen einer anorektischen Poetik im Persephone-Mythos" ("Hungry for Individuality: Anorexic Poetics in the Myth of Persephone").

Her thesis explored aspects of the Persephone myth in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Fasti, and in contemporary adaptations by the Swedish poet Lotta Olsson and the American graphic novelist George O’Connor.

Sophie Seidler is currently a Fulbright student at the University of Washington (Seattle), where she is completing her second Master's in Classics.

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