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Jaana
Vaahtera
University Lecturer, English, Classics and Multilingual Translation Studies
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Contact

+358 29 450 3343
+358 50 432 2280
Arcanuminkuja 1
20500
Turku

Areas of expertise

classical philology
history of ancient linguistics
ancient rhetoric
Dante Alighieri
De vulgari eloquentia
grammatical gender in ancient linguistics
word-formation in ancient linguistics

Biography

I studied Classics at the University of Turku and I am currently a university lecturer of classical languages.

Teaching

I have taught Classics for over 20 years and, from the very beginning, considered the ancient texts, from Homer to Church Fathers, to be the core of the teaching.

Research

My research concentrates on how people in antiquity thought about language and its use, and how they formulated their thoughts. I have studied, for instance, the concept of grammatical gender in ancient linguistics. Recently, I have also studied the De vulgari eloquentia written by Dante Alighieri.

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