Rebecca Langlands

Rebecca Langlands is Professor of Classics at the University of Exeter. She is known in particular for her work on the history of sexuality and ethics in the Roman world.^[1]

Rebecca Langlands
Nationality	British
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Thesis	Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus
Academic work
Discipline	Classics
Institutions	University of Exeter

Career

Langlands studied at the University of Cambridge and wrote her PhD dissertation on Valerius Maximus at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge funded by the British Academy and examined by Susanna Morton Braund.^[2][3]

Langlands moved to the University of Exeter in 1998 to teach in the Department of Classics.^[4] She was awarded a grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council for the project Pudicitia: Sexual Ethics in Ancient Rome in February–June 2003 under its Research Leave scheme.^[5] Langlands was a visiting faculty member (2014/15) at UCLA Department of Classics.^[4] She was promoted to a full Professorship at Exeter in 2017 and delivered her Inaugural Lecture, entitled 'Stories that Slice, Scald and Bounce: Why Roman Exempla Matter' on 21 January 2019.^[6]

Langlands works on morality in the Roman world, stemming from her doctoral work on Valerius Maximus. More recently, she has focused on gender and sexuality in the ancient world generally. Langlands co-directs the project Sexual Knowledge, Sexual History with Kate Fisher and also co-directs the Sex and History project, which uses objects from history to facilitate discussion of modern sexual issues with young people.^[7] Langlands has co-written a chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education on "‘Sex and History’: Talking Sex with Objects from the Past" about the project.^[8]

Selected publications

• ed. with Alice König, and James Uden, Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions (Cambridge University Press, 2020).^[9]
• Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2018)^[10]
• ed. with Kate Fisher Sex, Knowledge, and Receptions of the Past (Oxford University Press, 2015)
• Sexual morality in ancient Rome (Cambridge University Press, 2006)^[11][12][13]
• Langlands, R. (2002). ‘Can You Tell What it is Yet?’ Descriptions of Sex Change in Ancient Literature. Ramus, 31(1-2), 91–110.^[14]

References

1. "Professor Rebecca Langlands| Classics and Ancient History| University of Exeter". humanities.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
2. Langlands, Rebecca; Langlands, Lecturer in Classics Rebecca; Exeter), Rebecca (Lecturer in Classics Langlands, University of (25 May 2006). Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521859431.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
3. Rebecca, Langlands (5 December 2000). Gender and exemplarity in Valerius Maximus (Thesis). University of Cambridge. doi:10.17863/CAM.16540.
4. Anonymous (10 November 2014). "Dr. Rebecca Langlands (UCLA)". Stanford Humanities. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
5. "REF Case study search". impact.ref.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 August 2018.
6. "Professor Rebecca Langlands Inaugural Lecture". exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
7. "Sex & History | Talking sex with objects from the past". sexandhistory.exeter.ac.uk. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
8. Fisher, Kate; Grove, Jen; Langlands, Rebecca (2016), Allen, Louisa; Rasmussen, Mary Lou (eds.), "'Sex and History': Talking Sex with Objects from the Past", The Palgrave Handbook of Sexuality Education, Wellcome Trust–Funded Monographs and Book Chapters, Palgrave Macmillan, doi:10.1057/978-1-137-40033-8_2, ISBN 9781137400321, PMID 29668201, retrieved 23 August 2018
9. Konig, Alice; Langlands, Rebecca; Uden, James (2020). Literature and Culture in the Roman Empire, 96-235: Cross-Cultural Interactions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108493932.
10. Langlands, Rebecca (1970). Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome by Rebecca Langlands. doi:10.1017/9781139629164. ISBN 9781139629164.
11. Gourevitch, Danielle (2008). "Rebecca Langlands, Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome, 2006". L'Antiquité Classique (in French). 77 (1).
12. Glazebrook, Allison (2009). "Review of Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome". Phoenix. 63 (1/2): 200–202. JSTOR 25651787.
13. Foubert, Lien (2007). "Review of: Sexual Morality in Ancient Rome". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
14. Langlands, Rebecca (2002). "'Can You Tell What it is Yet?' Descriptions of Sex Change in Ancient Literature". Ramus. 31 (1–2): 91–110. doi:10.1017/S0048671X00001387. ISSN 0048-671X. S2CID 134711309.

External links

• University of Exeter staff page
• "Greek Pasts, Greek Futures, and the Making of Sexual Science" - lecture given at the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine & Society at the University of California, Berkeley, 2015.
• Soundcloud talk for the University of Exeter on attitudes to sex and sexuality in the Roman world, 2016. From website: "Sensitive topic warning: please be aware this podcast contains discussion of sensitive topics including sexual violence and rape."