Biography
Born and educated in Birmingham, UK, I studied Classics in Cambridge and went on to hold posts at the University of Newcastle and Royal Holloway, University of London, before joining the staff at Trinity College Dublin in 1998.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Monica R. Gale, Catullus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2025
The Pleasure of the Text? Literacy,Orality and Programmatics in Lucretius in, editor(s)Giacomo Fedeli, Henry Spelman , Writing Literary History in the Greek and Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp261 - 281, [Monica Gale]
Introduction: The Spaces of Augustan Poetry in, editor(s)Monica Gale, Anna Chahoud , The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp1 - 22, [Monica R. Gale]
Poetic and Imperial Spaces in Propertius, Books 1"3 in, editor(s)Monica Gale, Anna Chahoud , The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024, pp53 - 69, [Monica R. Gale]
Monica R. Gale, Anna Chahoud, The Augustan Space: The Poetics of Geography, Topography and Monumentality, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2024
Catullus and Augustan Poetry in, editor(s)Tony Woodman and Ian Du Quesnay , The Cambridge Companion to Catullus, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp219 - 241, [Monica R. Gale]
Plagues and the Limits of Didactic Authority: Lucretius and Others in, editor(s)J.S. Clay and A. Vergados , Teaching through Images: Imagery in Greco-Roman Didactic Poetry, Leiden, Brill, 2021, pp205 - 230, [Monica R. Gale]
'"otium" and "voluptas": Catullus and Roman Epicureanism' in, editor(s)Sergio Yona, Gregson Davis , Roman Epicureanism, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2021, pp87 - 108, [Monica R. Gale]
Lucretius in, editor(s)P. Mitsis , The Oxford Handbook of Epicureanism, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2020, pp430 - 455, [Monica R. Gale]
Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield, Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, 1 - 384pp
Contemplating Violence: Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in, editor(s)Monica R. Gale, J.H.D. Scourfield , Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp63 - 86, [Monica R. Gale]
'te sociam ratio': Hunting as Paradigm in the Cynegetica in, editor(s)Steven J. Green , Grattius in Context(s): Hunting an Augustan Poet, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018, pp77 - 95, [Monica R. Gale]
Monica R. Gale, Between Pastoral and Elegy: the Discourse of Desire in Catullus 45, Paideia, rivista di filologia, ermeneutica e critica letteraria, 73, 2018, p1589 - 1605
Reading Roman Violence in, editor(s)Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield , Texts and Violence in the Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp1 - 43, [Monica R. Gale and J.H.D. Scourfield]
Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe in, editor(s)L. G. Canevaro and D. O'Rourke , 'Didactic Poetry of Greece, Rome and Beyond: Knowledge, Power, Tradition, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2018, pp123-50 , [Monica R. Gale]
Monica Gale, Space, Place and Literary Topographies, Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, (193), 2016, p5 - 9
Hermathena: A Trinity College Dublin Review, 193, (2016), Monica Gale, [eds.]
'Aliquid putare nugas': Literary Filiation, Critical Communities and Reader-Response in Catullus in, editor(s)R.L. Hunter and S.P. Oakley , Latin Literature and its Transmission, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, pp88 - 107, [Monica R. Gale]
Virgil's Caesar: Intertextuality and Ideology in, editor(s)J. Farrell and D.P. Nelis , Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic in , Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp278 - 296, [M.R. Gale]
Piety, Justice, and Labour in Lucretius and Hesiod in, editor(s)D. Lehoux, A.D. Morrison and A.R. Sharrock , Lucretius: Poetry, Philosophy, Science, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2013, pp25 - 50, [Monica R. Gale]
Putting on the Yoke of Necessity: Myth, Intertextuality and Moral Agency in Catullus 68 in, editor(s)I.M.LeM. Duquesnay, A.J. Woodman , Catullus: Poems, Books, Readers, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp184 - 211, [Monica R. Gale]
Digressions, Intertextuality and Ideology in Didactic Poetry: The Case of Manilius in, editor(s)S.J. Green and K. Volk , Forgotten Stars: Rediscovering Manilius' Astronomica, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp205 - 221, [Monica R. Gale]
Monica R. Gale, Lucretius: De Rerum Natura V, Oxford, Aris and Phillips, 2009, 1 - 222pp
M.R. Gale, Oxford Readings in Lucretius, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007
Lucretius and Previous Poetic Traditions in, editor(s)P.R. Hardie and S. Gillespie , The Cambridge Companion to Lucretius, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp59 - 75, [Monica Gale]
Lucretius in, editor(s)J.M. Foley , A Companion to Ancient Epic, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005, pp440 - 451, [M.R. Gale]
Avia Pieridum loca: Tradition and Innovation in Lucretius in, editor(s)C. Reitz and M. Horster , Wissensvermittlung in dichterischer Gestalt, Stuttgart, Steiner-Verlag, 2005, pp175 - 191, [M.R. Gale]
Didactic Epic in, editor(s)S.J. Harrison , A Companion to Latin Literature, Oxford, Blackwell, 2005, pp101 - 115, [M.R. Gale]
The Story of Us: A Narratological Analysis of Lucretius' De Rerum Natura in, editor(s)M.R. Gale , Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2004, pp49 - 71, [M.R. Gale]
Introduction: Genre, Tradition and Individuality in, editor(s)M.R. Gale , Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality, Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2004, ppxi - xxiii, [M.R. Gale]
M.R. Gale, Latin Epic and Didactic Poetry: Genre, Tradition and Individuality , Swansea, Classical Press of Wales, 2004
M.R. Gale, Poetry and the Backward Glance in Virgil's Georgics and Aeneid, Transactions of the American Philological Association, (133), 2003, p323 - 352
M.R. Gale, Lucretius and the Didactic Epic, London, Bristol Classical Press, 2001
M.R. Gale, Etymological Word-Play and Poetic Succession in Lucretius, Classical Philology, 96, 2001, p168 - 172
M.R. Gale, Virgil on the Nature of Things: The Georgics, Lucretius and the Didactic Tradition, Cambridge, C.U.P., 2000
M.R. Gale, War and Peace in Lucretius and the Georgics, Proceedings of the Virgil Society, 23, 1998, p101 - 128
M.R. Gale, The Shield of Turnus (Aeneid 7.783-92), Greece and Rome, 44, 1997, p176 - 196
M.R. Gale, Propertius 2.7: Militia Amoris and the Ironies of Elegy, Journal of Roman Studies, 87, 1997, p77 - 91
M.R. Gale, The Rhetorical Programme of Lucretius I, Nottingham Classical Literature Studies, 5, 1997, p57 - 66
M.R. Gale, Virgil's Metamorphoses: Myth and Allusion in the Georgics, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 41, 1995, p36 - 61
M.R. Gale, Lucretius 4.1-25 and the Proems of the De Rerum Natura, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society, 40, 1994, p1 - 17
M.R. Gale, Myth and Poetry in Lucretius, Cambridge, C.U.P., 1994
M.R. Gale, Man and Beast in Lucretius and the Georgics, Classical Quarterly, 41, 1991, p414 - 426
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
quare id faciam" nescio, sed fieri sentio: Affect and Self-Scrutiny in Catullus in, editor(s)Adrian Gramps, Chiara Graf , Affect, Intensity, Antiquity: New Approaches to Ancient Feelings, London, Bloomsbury, 2024, [Monica R. Gale]
Monica R. Gale, Blood Brothers: Intrafamilial Transgression and Civil Strife in Catullus and Virgil, Virgilian Society Symposium Cumanum, 'Virgil and the Roman Republic', Cuma, Italy, June 2023, 2023, Sergio Casali, Luca Grillo
Monica R. Gale, Five Ways of Reading Catullus, The Fowler Lecture, Ionannou Classics Centre, Oxford, May 2023, 2023, Armand Dangour
Monica Gale, '"Out of the Forum": Catullus the Epicurean?', Public lecture, Department of Classics, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, 21 March, 2018, Professor Mark Possanza
Monica Gale, '"Out of the Forum": Love, Friendship and Philosophy in Catullus and his Contemporaries', Maynooth Classics Seminar, Maynooth University, 2 February, 2018
Monica Gale, Marginal Subjectivities: Ovid's Tristia and the Death of Elegy, 'Excessive Writing: Ovid in Exile', Colloquium of the Réseau international de recherche dans la domaine de la poésie augusténne, Freie Universität, Berlin, December 2017, 2017
Monica R. Gale, 'Commemorating the Living: Epitaphs and Funerary Monuments in Roman Elegy', Ancient Cultures Research Seminar, Centre for Ancient Cultures, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 14 July, 2017
Monica R. Gale, 'Commemorating the Living: Epitaphs and Funerary Monuments in Roman Elegy', Ancient History Research Seminar, Department of Ancient History, Macquarie University, New South Wales, Australia, 18 July, 2017
Monica Gale, Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe, Celtic Conference in Classics, University of Edinburgh, June, 2014
Monica Gale, Poetic and Imperial Spaces in the Elegies of Propertius, The Augustan Space, TCD, June, 2014
Monica R. Gale, Commentating on Catullus in the 21st Century , Classics Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, 8 October , 2014
Monica Gale, Catullus through the Looking-Glass: Suffenus and Mamurra, Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA, September, 2013
Monica Gale, Catullus through the Looking-Glass: Suffenus and Mamurra, Classics Research Seminar, University of Edinburgh, March, 2013
Monica Gale, Commemorating the Living: Epitaphs and Funerary Monuments in Roman Elegy, Royal Irish Academy Colloquium: Death in the Ancient World, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, November, 2013
Monica Gale, Property, Status and Social Relations in the Poetry of Catullus, University of Pennsylvania Classics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA, September, 2013
Monica Gale, 'Notior Helena': Catullus, Propertius and the Trojan War, Yale University (Graduate Elected Speaker), Yale University, September, 2010
Monica R. Gale, Catullus 22: On (Not) Judging a Book by its Cover, Omnibus, 58, 2009, p21 - 22
Introduction in, editor(s)J. Conington , Virgil: Georgics , Exeter, Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007, ppxvii-xxxi , [M.R. Gale]
M.R. Gale, Review of Constructing Literature in the Roman Republic, by S. Goldberg , Classical Journal, 103, 2007, p113-116
M.R. Gale, Review of Virgil: Aeneid, by S. Lombardo (tr.) , Classical Review, 56, 2006, p516-17
Gallus, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp375 - 376, [Monica R. Gale]
Tibullus, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp888 , [Monica R. Gale]
Seneca the Younger, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp808 , [Monica R. Gale]
genre, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp388 , [Monica R. Gale]
Horace, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp437 - 438, [Monica R. Gale]
Juvenal, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp483 , [Monica R. Gale]
Catullus, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, D. Mattingly, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp173 - 174, [Monica R. Gale]
Lyric poetry (Roman), G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp536 , [Monica R. Gale]
Didactic Poetry, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp272 - 272, [Monica R. Gale]
Poetry (Roman), G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp695 - 696, [Monica R. Gale]
Terence, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp868 - 869, [Monica R. Gale]
Ovid, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp635 - 636, [Monica R. Gale]
Lucretius, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp532 , [Monica R. Gale]
Monica Gale, Review of Vergil's Aeneid and the Roman Self, by Y. Syed , Classical Review, 56, 2006, p106-108
Pastoral poetry, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp650 , [Monica R. Gale]
Plautus, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp689 , [Monica R. Gale]
Propertius, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp725 - 726, [Monica R. Gale]
Lucan, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp530 - 531, [Monica R. Gale]
Maecenas, G. Shipley, J. Vanderspoel, G. Mattingley, L. Foxhall, The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, pp543 , [Monica R. Gale]
M.R. Gale, Review of Viamque adfectat Olympo: memoria ellenistica nelle Georgiche di Virgilio, by L. Cadili , Journal of Roman Studies, (95), 2005, p287
M.R. Gale, Review of Catullus in Verona; Aspects of Catullus' Social Fiction, by M.B. Skinner; C. Nappa , Classical Review, (55), 2005, p511-514
M.R. Gale, Arms and the Hobbit: J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings and the Classical Epic, Omnibus , 48, 2004, p29 - 31
M.R. Gale, Review of Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy, by S.L. James , Classical Review, 54, 2004, p96-8
M.R. Gale, Review of The Complete Poetry of Catullus, by D. Mulroy (trans.) , Classical Review, 54, 2004, p246
M.R. Gale, Review of Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid, by E. Adler , Classical Review, 54, 2004, p376-8
M.R. Gale, Review of Untersuchungen zu den Gleichnissen im römischen Lehrgedicht, by C. Schindler , Gnomon, 75, 2003, p556-8
M.R. Gale, Review of Intratextuality: Greek and Roman Textual Relations, by A. Sharrock, H. Morales (edd.) , Hermathena, 171, 2002, p97-101
M.R. Gale, Review of L'eclair immobile dans la plaine: Philosophie et poétique du temps chez Lucrèce; Atoms, Ataraxy and Allusion, by S. Luciani; A. Giesecke , Journal of Roman Studies, 92, 2002, p232-4
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, Greece and Rome, 48, 2001, p95-7
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, Greece and Rome, 47, 2000, p107-11
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, 47, 2000, p242-5
M.R. Gale, Review of Fama deum: Lucrèce et les raisons du mythe, by A. Gigandet , Classical Review, 49, 1999, p381-3
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, Greece and Rome, 46, 1999, p238-41
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, Greece and Rome, 46, 1999, p85-9
M.R. Gale, Review of Philodemus in Italy, by M. Gigante , Journal of Hellenic Studies , 118, 1998, p232
M.R. Gale, Subject Reviews: Roman Literature, Greece and Rome, 45 , 1998, p239-43
M.R. Gale, Review of The Criticism of Didactic Poetry, by A. Dalzell , Echos du Monde Classique/Classical Views, 42, 1998, p205-9
M.R. Gale, Review of Incipiant silvae cum primum surgere, by G. Maggiuli , Classical Review, 47, 1997, p421-2
M.R. Gale, Review of Lucretius: On the Nature of Things, , by A. Esolen (trans.) , Classical Review, (47), 1997, p203-4
M.R. Gale, Review of Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil, by J. Alvis , Classical Review, 47, 1997, p193-4
M.R. Gale, Review of The Distaff Side, by B. Cohen (ed.) , Journal of Hellenic Studies , 117, 1997, 215-16
M.R. Gale, Review of I dispiaceri di un Epicureo, by R. Ferri , Gnomon, 69, 1997, p266-8
M.R. Gale, Review of Mega nepios: il destinatario nell' epos didascalico, by A. Schiesaro, P. Mitsis, J.S. Clay , Classical Review, 46, 1996, p62-4
M.R. Gale, Review of A Commentary on Virgil: Eclogues, , by W. Clausen , Classical Review, 46, 1996, p18-19
E.J. Kenney, Lucretius, 1995, -
M.R. Gale, Review of Genres and Readers, by G.B. Conte , Classical Review, 45, 1995, p175-6
M.R. Gale, Religion and the Georgics, Omnibus, 29, 1995, p7 - 10
M.R. Gale, Review of Lucrezio: la natura , by F. Giancotti , Classical Review, 45, 1995, p255-6
M.R. Gale, Review of Virgil's Epic Technique, by R. Heinze (trans. H. and D. Harvey et al.) , Classical Review, 45, 1995, p163
M.R. Gale, Review of Ovidius parodesas, by G. Brugnoli and F. Stok , Classical Review, 44, 1994, p207-8
M.R. Gale, Review of Lukrez, der Kepos und die Stoiker; Lucretius on Death and Anxiety, by J. Schmidt; C. Segal , Journal of Roman Studies, 82, 1992, p246-7
E.M. Hallam (ed.), Chronicles of the Crusades, 1989, -
Research Expertise
Description
Roman poetry of the Late Republican and Augustan periods (especially Catullus, Lucretius, Virgil, Propertius); Greek and Roman didactic poetry; genre and intertextuality in Roman poetry; the uses of myth in ancient literatureProjects
- Title
- A Commentary on the Complete Poems of Catullus
- Summary
- Text and scholarly commentary on the oeuvre of the poet Catullus, for the Cambridge 'Greek and Latin Classics' series
Recognition
Representations
External advisor for audit of School of Classics and Quinquennial Review of Programmes, Trinity St David, University of Wales
Member of Editorial Board, Dictynna: Révue de poétique latine
Member of Editorial Board, Classics Ireland, 2003-6
Member of Central Council, Classical Association of Ireland
Member of council, Classical Association (England and Wales)
Awards and Honours
FTCD
IRCHSS Senior Research Fellow
Memberships
Member of American Philological Association
Member of Classical Association of Ireland
Member of Classical Association (England and Wales)
Member of Virgil Society
Member of Cambridge Philological Society