Marie-Luise Reinhard

Marie-Luise Reinhard studied Latin and French at Mainz and Tours University. Her main interests are classical studies, especially Latin pedagogy and its history. Besides, she is a professional contralto and mezzo-soprano and has been elaborating an extensive repertory from Purcell to Verdi, especially Rossini, together with Emanuela De Santis-Salucci at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Rome.

In Mainz, she worked as a graduate assistant of Christine Walde, tutored prose composition classes and won a prestigious competition in Latin prose composition. Her M.Ed. thesis ‘In new ways back – On the necessity of spoken Latin’ was awarded with the first prize of the department for historical and cultural studies. As a seasoned Latin speaker, she has already produced numerous talks and papers on the use of active Latin in the classroom. Additionally, she collaborates with the renowned Accademia Vivarium Novum (Rome) as an associate member.

Her interest in the history of classical scholarship led to her Ph.D. project on Johann Matthias Gesner’s (1691-1761) theories of Latin pedagogy, supervised by the philologists Christine Walde (Mainz) and Fabio Stok (Rome) and funded by a scholarship from Tor Vergata University (Rome). She is also a holder of a scholarship from the Italian association Cavalieri del Lavoro for excellent students as well as part of the exclusive Christine de Pizan mentoring program where she is mentored by Katharina Wesselmann (Kiel).