Curriculum Vitae

Mag. Dr. Nicole Kröll, BA MA

Institute for Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies

 

University of Vienna
Universitätsring 1
1010 Vienna
Austria

E-Mail: nicole.kroell@univie.ac.at
ORCID-Nummer: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0985-6924

 

Nicole Kröll's research focuses on Greek poetry and historiography of Late Antiquity. As part of her FWF-funded research projects, she has studied the Dionysiaca by Nonnus of Panopolis (5th century CE) and the encomiastic poems of George of Pisidia dedicated to the Roman-Byzantine Emperor Heraclius (early 7th century CE).

She is a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Classical Philology, Medieval and Neo-Latin Studies at the University of Vienna and is currently conducting research on Greek historiographical texts from the 5th to the 7th century CE.

 

 

Personal career and academic milestones

Since 2025: Senior scientist an leader of the project Digressions in late antique Greek historiography, funded by the FWF.

2021-2025: Archivist and scientific staff member at the archives of the archdiocese of Vienna, Austria

2020-2025: Postdoc project Narrative Strategies in the Poetry of George of Pisidia, Elise Richter programme V-803, funded by the FWF.

2017-2020: Postdoc project Poetry - Character - Design: Narrative Strategies in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis, Hertha Firnberg programme T-875, funded by the FWF.

2016: Bachelor in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna.

2014: PhD in Classical Philology, University of Vienna, titel of dissertation: Die Jugend des Dionysos: Die Ampelos-Episode in den Dionysiaka des Nonnos von Panopolis.

2009-2013: Praedoc position in the FWF project Religion and Poetry in the Epic of Nonnus of Panopolis (P-21088), project leader: ao. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Bannert.

2008-2019: Research assistant at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) in the fields of Classical philology and Byzantine studies.

2008: Teaching diploma for Greek and Latin, University of Vienna.

Since 2007: Teacher for Greek and Latin in secondary schools in Vienna and Wiener Neustadt (Austria).