Professor Isabelle Torrance: "AIAS enabled me to transform my career"
Channel: Aarhus Universitet
Date: 2021-05-28

Professor Isabelle Torrance recounts how a 3-year AIAS-COFUND fellowship stay at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies at Aarhus University has paved the way for a successful ERC Consolidator grant application, enabling her to stay in Aarhus. At Aarhus University, Torrance is now leading her own ERC-funded research group CLIC, Classical Influences and Irish Culture. Her CLIC research group is investigating how classical models expose the shifting political structures of the nation through the politics of language, of conflict, of (post)colonialism, of gender, of identity.

Her 3-year AIAS research fellowship gave Torrance time to practice ‘slow science’, which has transformed her career in an interdisciplinary and new direction of ‘Classical Reception Studies’. In 2021, Torrance was recognized for her achievements with the Victor Albeck Award for her interdisciplinary work and her ability to establish synergy between classical studies and modern history.