Pernille Harsting's homepage
Translator of scholarly work and fiction (Italian/English/Dutch/Latin-Danish; Swedish/Danish/Latin-English), for example:
* Umberto Eco, Kunsten at skrive speciale (Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag, 1997), translated from Italian (Come si fa una tesi di laurea) in collaboration with Lise G. Rasmussen.
* Translation into English of the Swedish scholarly and literary texts from Fadershuset, 1800-1900 [The House of the Father, 1800-1900] = Nordisk kvinnolitteraturhistoria [A History of Nordic Women's Literature], vol. 2 (to be published online by Kvinfo, Copenhagen, in the spring of 2012).
Email address: text@nnrh.dk
Short Academic CV:* MA in Latin and Greek (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1988)
* Awarded the University of Copenhagen's Gold Medal for MA dissertation on Latin Wedding Poems in Sixteenth-Century Denmark (1988)
* Ph.D. in Classical Philology and the History of Rhetoric (University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 1993)
* Research Fellow/Associate Research Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen, 1993-1996/1997-2001
* Associate Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Örebro, Sweden, 2004
* Affiliated to the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2006-2008
* Founder (in 1999) and president (1999-2011) of the Nordic Network for the History of Rhetoric.
* Editor and publisher (2002-) of the book series Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric.
* Founder, general editor, and publisher (2003-2011) of Rhetorical Review, The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric (ISSN: 1901-2640).
* Member (1999-2005) of the board of The International Society for the History of Rhetoric, (member of the ISHR Council 1999-2003; of the ISHR Nominating Committee 2003-2005).
* Member of the Editorial Board of ISHR's journal Rhetorica, 2003-2011.
Email address: nnrh@nnrh.dk
My research focuses on: (1) the history of rhetoric; (2) Neo-Latin language and literature; (3) the problem of academic plagiarism
(The letter 'E' in the following lists of publications indicates that the publication in question contains text edition.)
(1) Publications (in English) on the history of rhetoric:
* Review of Alessandro Daneloni: Poliziano e il testo dell'Institutio oratoria (Messina 2001), in Rhetorical Review: The Electronic Review of Books on the History of Rhetoric, 7:3 (October 2009), pp. 1-5.
* Rhetoric and Literature in Finland and Sweden, 1600-1900, Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 2, ed. by Pernille Harsting and Jon Viklund (Copenhagen: Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie (NNRH), 2008), ISBN: 987-87-988829-1-6, 241 pages.
* Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric, vol. 1, ed. by Pernille Harsting and Stefan Ekman (Copenhagen: Nordisk Netværk for Retorikkens Historie (NNRH), 2002), ISBN: 87-988829-0-2, 175 pages.* "The Discovery of Late-Classical Epideictic Theory in the Italian Renaissance", in Pernille Harsting & Stefan Ekman (eds.), Ten Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric [= Nordic Studies in the History of Rhetoric vol. 1] (Copenhagen: NNRH, 2002), pp. 39-53.
* "More Evidence of Menander Rhetor on the Epithalamium: Angelo Poliziano's Transcription in the Statius Commentary (1480-81), Re-edited with a Discussion of the Manuscript Sources and Earlier Editions", Cahiers de l'Institut du Moyen-Age Grec et Latin 72 (Copenhagen 2001), pp. 11-34. (E)
* "More Evidence of the Earliest Translation of Menander Rhetor on the Monody", CIMAGL 70 (Copenhagen 1999), pp. 3-12. (E)
* "Quintilian, Imitation, and 'Anxiety of Influence'", in Quintiliano: Historia y Actualidad de la Retórica, ed. by Tomás Albaladejo (Logroño 1998), pp. 1325-1336.
* "Two Renaissance Translations of Menander Rhetor on the Monody. Edited with a Note on the Introduction of the Genre in the Latin West", CIMAGL 67 (Copenhagen 1997), pp. 13-32. (E)
* "The Golden Method of Menander Rhetor. The Translations and the Reception of the peri epideiktikon in the Italian Renaissance", ARID 20 (Rome: Bretschneider, 1994), pp. 139-157. (E)
* "The Work of Menander Rhetor in Italy in the Renaissance: The First Translation?", Res publica litterarum 14 (Kansas 1991) and Studi Umanistici Piceni 11 (Sassoferrato 1991), pp. 69-73. (E)
(2) Publications (in English and one in Italian) on Neo-Latin language and literature:
* "What's in A Title Page? Title-Page Topics of Neo-Latin Epithalamia Printed in Sixteenth-Century Denmark", in Stefan Ekman et al. (eds.), Den litterära textens förändringar. Studier tillägnade Stina Hansson (Stockholm/Stehag: Brutus Östlings Bokförlag Symposion, 2007), pp. 230-240.
* "Jacobus Jacobaeus Volfius: Carmen in nuptias Jacobi VI Regis Scotiae et Annae (1589), Edited with a Study of the Autograph Sources", Humanistica Lovaniensia 50 (Leuven 2001), pp. 329-349. (E)
* "Four Autograph Poems by Jacobus Jasparus Danus (fl. 1529-1549) Discovered in the Vatican Library*, Analecta Romana Instituti Danici 27 (Rome 2001), pp. 151-160. (E)
* "From Melanchthonism to Mannerism: The Development of the Neo-Latin Wedding Poem in 16th Century Denmark", in Chloe. Beihefte zum Daphnis 32 = Humanismus im Norden. Frühneuzeitliche Rezeption antiker Kultur und Literatur an Nord-und Ostsee, ed. by Thomas Haye (Amsterdam 2000), pp. 289-318. (E)
* "'Should One Marry?' On the Use of a Classical Rhetorical Theme in Early Lutheran Wedding Poetry", Classica et Mediaevalia 50 (Aarhus 1999), pp. 273-286. (E)
* "Latin Valedictory Poems of the 16th Century. Tradition and Topicality of a Classical Genre", in Minna Skafte Jensen (ed.), A History of Nordic Neo-Latin Literature (Odense 1995), pp. 203-218. (E)
* Nicolai Perotti, Cornu copiae seu linguae Latinae commentariae, vol. 5, text critical edition by J.-L. Charlet and P. Harsting (Sassoferrato 1995), 257 pages. (E)
* "Jacobus Jasparus (fl. 1529-1549): 'Homerulus noster Danicus'", in Jean Moss et al. (eds.) Acta Conventus Neolatini Hafniensis (Binghamton, NY 1994), pp. 465-476. (E)
* "Epitalami latini della riforma in Danimarca (1536-1590): Imitazione classica e rappresentazione luterana", Res publica litterarum 15 (Kansas 1992) and Studi Umanistici Piceni 12 (Sassoferrato 1992), pp. 97-106. (E)
(3) And on the problem of academic plagiarism:
* "40 Cases of Plagiarism", article researched and written together with Michael V. Dougherty (Ohio) and Russell L. Friedman (Leuven), published in Bulletin de philosophie médiévale 51:2009 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010), pp. 350-391.
Last update: January 30, 2012 (nnrh@nnrh.dk)