Profile
Biography
Irina is Postdoctoral Research Associate on the AHRC/DFG-funded project Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment. Before joining the University of York, she held posts as Doctoral Researcher on the ERC-funded project “Nova Scientia: Early Modern Scientific Literature and Latin” at the University of Innsbruck (2017–2023) and as Research and Teaching Assistant in Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature at the University of Bonn (2023–2024). Irina completed her PhD in Latin Literature at the University of Innsbruck in 2023 and taught modules on Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, as well as Medieval and Neo-Latin Literature, for BA and MA programmes in Classics, Medieval Studies, and Renaissance Studies. Her research interests include Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek Literature, the interplay of literature and science, and the reception of the classical world. Her current research focusses on Neo-Latin scientific poetry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.
Research
Overview
Irina works on Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek Literature, with a particular focus on Neo-Latin scientific poetry between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. This interest continues from her doctoral research on the reception of Copernicus and the Copernican system in Neo-Latin and New Ancient Greek poetry. She has published several articles on this literature and is currently editing and translating a substantial number of Neo-Latin scientific poems for the trilingual anthology that is being produced in the AHRC/DFG-funded project “Scientific Poetry and Poetics in Britain and Germany, from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment”.
Her research interests include the interplay between literature and science, the reception of the Greek and Roman classics, the history of the book and early modern print culture, occasional literature, paratextuality and intertextuality. She is the co-editor of Die antike Literatur und die wissenschaftliche Revolution (Rombach Press, 2023) and Occasio in der Frühen Neuzeit: Situationen – Praktiken – Medien (forthcoming in 2025).
