Junior Lecturer
MA (Ancient Cultures), Stellenbosch University
BAHons cum laude (Classical Civilizations), University of KwaZulu-Natal
BA (Classical Civilizations and History), University of KwaZulu-Natal
Email: karak@sun.ac.za
Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Specialisation
- Myth, society, and literature in the Greco-Roman world
- Roman history
- Rise of Christianity in the Greco-Roman world
- Early Christian martyr literature
- Use of protreptics in early Christian texts
- Conventions of ancient autobiographical and apologetic writing
Current Projects
Apuleius' Apologia and its literary inheritance: a play with the tranditions of apology and autobiography
Courses in 2023
- Latin 178
- Hons. North Africa and the intellectual tradition
Awards and Grants
- Stellenbosch University Internations (SUI) International collaboration and mobility grant - 2023
- Stellenbosch University subcommittee A, new appointee grant - 2023
- Groningen University (RUG) Strategic Partnership Framework travel grant - 2023
- William Robert Hartman Trust Bursary - 2018
- Stellenbosch University Postgraduate Merit Bursary - 2017
