Dr L. Foubert (Lien)

Lien Foubert is an Associate Professor in Ancient History at the Radboud Institute for Culture and History. Her research focuses on women’s representations in the written sources of a gendered ancient Mediterranean. She has published on the separation of the spheres in Roman Antiquity, the literary and non-literary representation of Julio-Claudian women, and most recently on forms of so-called proto-tourism in the ancient world and Graeco-Roman narratives on women’s mobility in periods of both conflict and peace. In her research on women's mobility she uses a variety of source material including ostraca and papyri from Roman Egypt, ancient funerary inscriptions, graffiti, Latin poetry, Graeco-Roman historiography and ancient letters. She is a member of the international networks Impact of Empire, EuGeStA (European Gender Studies in Antiquity), and GIEFFRA (Groupe International d’Études sur les Femmes et la Famille dans la Rome Antique).