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Role
Professor
Email
g.gessert@aur.edu
Program
Bachelor Degree in Archaeology & Classics
Education
BA, Classical Languages. University of California, Berkeley - California, USA
PhD, Classical Art and Archaeology, Yale University - Connecticut, USA

Biography

Teaching activity at AUR

  • AHAR 101 Ancient Material Culture (every Fall)
  • CLHS 205 Rome: Republic and Empire (every Spring)
  • LTN 101 and 102 Beginning Latin I and II (Fall and Spring)
  • AHAR 251 European Archaeology and Heritage: Ireland (1-credit, Fall 2025)
  • ARCL 305 Rome of Augustus (Fall 2025)
  • CLS 204 Classics and Comics (Spring 2023)

Publications and Works

Books
Roman Archaeology under Italian Fascism. Taylor & Francis, 2018.

Articles and Book Chapters
鈥淪awdust Caesars: Roman Leadership in 20th-century Europe鈥� in听The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Leadershipedited by S. Ferrario and N. Sandridge (contracted with Wiley-Blackwell; anticipated publication 2025).

鈥淓nacting Empire: Ancient Roman Rituals in Fascist Multimedia.鈥� in听The Roman Empire听edited by S. G眉nther (contracted with DeGruyter; anticipated publication 2025).

鈥淨uod mentem moneat: Monuments and memory in Bernardo Bertolucci鈥檚听The Conformist听(1970).鈥澨�Classical Receptions Journal听16.4 (October 2024).

鈥淭he Mirror Crack鈥檇: The Pre-Raphaelites, Victorian Illustration, and the Fractured Classicism of Modern Fantasy.鈥� in听Classical Traditions in Modern Fantasy听edited by B. Rogers and B. Stevens, Oxford University Press (January 2017).

鈥淎 Giant Corrupt Body: The Gendering of Renaissance Roma.鈥� in听Receptions of Antiquity, Constructions of Gender in European Art 1300-1600, edited by A. Poe and M. Rose, Brill Metaforms (June 2015).

鈥淚deological Applications: Roman Architecture and Fascist Romanit脿.鈥� in听The Blackwell Companion to Roman Architecture听edited by C. Quenemoen and R. Ulrich (January 2014).

鈥�Et domus et collegium: Ostia鈥檚 鈥楧omus del Tempio Rotondo鈥� Reconsidered.鈥� in C. Mattusch and A. Donohue eds.听Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-26, 2003. Oxford: Oxbow Books (2006) 326-330.

鈥淢yth as听consolatio: Medea on Roman Sarcophagi.鈥澨�Greece & Rome听51.2 (October 2004) 217-250.

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Expert Consultant On...

  • Roman Archaeology
  • Roman Social History
  • Classical Literature
  • Classical Reception
  • History of Archaeology