{"id":23732,"date":"2016-03-15T15:27:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csws.uoregon.edu\/?page_id=23732"},"modified":"2016-03-15T15:27:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T22:27:44","slug":"2014-jennifer-a-rea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/csws-archive.uoregon.edu\/funding\/le-guin-fellowship\/2014-jennifer-a-rea\/","title":{"rendered":"2014: Jennifer A. Rea"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Professor Jennifer Rea<\/p><\/div>\n

Jennifer A. Rea was one of two scholars selected as a 2014-15 Le Guin Fellow. An associate professor of classics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, she made a research trip to Eugene in October 2015. Professor Rea\u2019s first book, Legendary Rome <\/em>(2007), explored the Roman poets\u2019 reinvention of Rome\u2019s legendary past for post-civil war Augustan Rome. Her latest project, Perpetua\u2019s Journey<\/em>, for Oxford University Press, presents a graphic history of Vibia Perpetua\u2019s prison diary. She visited Knight Library to complete work on another current book project, Empire without End: Science Fiction, Fantasy and Vergil<\/em>, which explores why Vergil\u2019s violent foundation story remains relevant in modern science fiction and fantasy, and especially within the novel Lavinia<\/em>, by Ursula K. Le Guin. Professor Rea said about her visit to UO, \u201cThe Ursula K. Le Guin fellowship allowed me to do in-depth research in the archives that would not have been possible otherwise and I am extremely grateful to have had this opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the final report she submitted regarding her visit to the archives, Rea noted:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was delighted to find, among the Ursula K. Le Guin papers, the notebook that she used to take notes on Lavinia<\/em>. In particular, I found her ideas about the lives of the proto-Romans, what their landscape looked like, how they worshiped, the Roman sense of pietas, and her consideration of tragic elements within the Aeneid<\/em> to be critical to my scholarly analysis of the Aeneid<\/em>\u2019s ending. When studying the ways in which Lavinia<\/em> can inform our understanding of Vergil\u2019s epic, the Aeneid<\/em>, Le Guin\u2019s preliminary writings on Lavinia<\/em> and her research on the ancient Romans\u2019 religious beliefs can help us to extend the scholarly dialogue. Le Guin\u2019s Lavinia<\/em> does not ask us to search fruitlessly for a \u2018winner-hero\u2019 and a \u2018loser-anti-hero\u2019 at the end of the epic battle between Turnus and Aeneas, but to see the tragedy that war brings to human lives. The character Lavinia confronts her audience with a question also found in the Aeneid<\/em>, \u2018Can violence and\/or war ever create a better future for humankind?\u2019 To see the development of those ideas before they were brought to fruition in her fantasy novel was an extraordinary experience and one that will inform my future writings on Le Guin\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jennifer A. Rea was one of two scholars selected as a 2014-15 Le Guin Fellow. An associate professor of classics at the University of Florida in Gainesville, she made a research trip to Eugene in October 2015. Professor Rea\u2019s first…<\/p>\n

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