Charlotte Roueché

Charlotte Roueché FSA (born 1946) is a British academic who specialises in the analysis of texts, inscribed or in manuscripts, from the Roman, Late Antique, and Byzantine periods. She is particularly interested in those from the Asia Minor cities of ancient Ephesos and Aphrodisias. She is also interested in the interface between digital humanities and classical and Byzantine studies. She is Professor Emerita of Digital Hellenic Studies at King's College London.[1]

Charlotte Roueché FSA
Professor Roueché
Born	1946 (age 73–74)
Academic background
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge
Academic work
Discipline	Classical studies Archaeology
Sub-discipline	Ancient Rome Late Antiquity Byzantine Empire digital humanities
Institutions	King's College London

Roueché has a degree in Classics from Newnham College Cambridge.[2]

On 21 June 2018, Roueché was awarded a Docteur honoris causa by the l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Sorbonne University, Paris.[3] The title is 'one of the most prestigious distinctions awarded by French universities to honor personalities of foreign nationality because of outstanding services to science, literature or the arts'.[4] Her honorary lecture was 'Le défi Robert: transformation d’une discipline'. [5]

In 2019 she gave The Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities at University College London, 'Wider Horizons, Harder Borders or Whose data are they, anyway?'[6] Also in 2019, she delivered the 10th Barron Memorial Lecture at the Institute of Classical Studies, London; the lecture was titled 'Forming/informing the modern world? The role of classical scholarship'.[7]

Selected publications

• Heritage Gazetteer of Libya, co-editor
• Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, co-editor
• Sharing Ancient Wisdoms, co-edited by Charlotte M Roueché, Elvira Wakelnig, and Anna Jordanous (2013)
• Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, by J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, enhanced electronic reissue by Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Roueché (2009). ISBN 978-1-897747-23-0
• Inscriptions of Aphrodisias (2007), by Joyce Reynolds, Charlotte Roueché, Gabriel Bodard, ISBN 978-1-897747-19-3.
• Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity: The Late Roman and Byzantine Inscriptions, revised second edition, 2004, ISBN 1 897747 17 9.
• Aphrodisias papers 3: the setting and quarries, mythological and other sculptural decoration, architectural development, Portico of Tiberius (1996): co-editor with R.R.R.Smith
• Performers and partisans at Aphrodisias in the Roman and late Roman periods (1993) with a section by Nathalie de Chaisemartin
• The Making of Byzantine history: studies dedicated to Donald M. Nicol (1993): co-editor, with Roderick Beaton
• Aphrodisias papers: recent Work on Architecture and Sculpture: Including the Papers Given at the Second *International Aphrodisias Colloquium Held at King's College (1990): co-editor with K.T.Erim.
• Aphrodisias in late antiquity: the late Roman and Byzantine inscriptions (1989)
• 'Acclamations in the Later Roman Empire: New Evidence from Aphrodisias', Journal of Roman Studies, Volume 74 November 1984, pp. 181-99

References

1. "Professor Charlotte Roueche". www.kcl.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
2. Professor Charlotte Roueche "Professor Charlotte Roueche Biography" Check |url= value (help). Kings College London. 9 March 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
3. "Le défi Robert : transformation d'une discipline | École Pratique des Hautes Études". www.ephe.fr (in French). Retrieved 2018-08-21.
4. "Doctorat Honoris Causa". Lettres Sorbonne Université (in French). 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
5. "Conférence de Charlotte Roueché (King's College, Londres) - Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques ANHIMA". www.anhima.fr. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
6. UCL (2019-01-14). "The Susan Hockey Lecture in Digital Humanities". UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Retrieved 2019-03-30.
7. "Barron Memorial Lectures". Institute of Classical Studies. 2018-10-26. Retrieved 2019-05-21.