Jacqueline Assaël
Jacqueline Assaël (born 7 August 1957, Marseille) is a French Hellenist and a professor of Greek language and literature at the University of Nice Sophia Antipolis since 2004. She is also an essayist and poet. Assaël is a specialist in the works of the tragic Greek poet Euripides, and she has also published works on the phenomenon of poetic inspiration in Antiquity. Also a philologist, she has also created some works of New Testament exegesis. Biography. Jacqueline Assaël studied classics at the University of Provence, where she obtained a doctorate in 1987. After passing the agrégation in 1980 , she taught in high schools, first in Marseille and then in Liévin. In 1983 she was named assistant professor of Greek at the University of Perpignan, then went to the University of Nice in 1990. She was promoted to the role of professor there in 2004. She began to publish poetry and essays in 1999, in journals ("Souffles", "Encres vives", "ARPA", "Autre Sud", "La main millénaire", "Recours au poème", "Nunc", "Les Cahiers du Sens") and with various publishing houses (La Porte, Clapàs, Corlevour, etc.). Patrick Cabanel remarks that "these titles reveal that this poetry mixes, as Roland Barthes would have  said, at least three Mediterraneans: Greek, Judeo-Christian, and 'Cévenole,' in the broad sense." She is a member of the editorial committees of the journals "Loxias" and "Foi et Vie".