Benedek Kruchio

Education and academic positions

• 2021–  St John’s College, University of Cambridge - Research Fellow (JRF) in Classics
• 2021–2022 King’s College London - Lecturer in Greek and Latin literature, Department of Classics
• 2020–2021 University of Regensburg - Junior Fellow, DFG Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon
• 2016–2020 St John’s College, University of Cambridge
• 2017–2020 PhD in Classics, Gates Cambridge Scholar
• 2012–2016 Humboldt University of Berlin
• 2016 PhD candidate in Classics (transferred to University of Cambridge)
• 2014–2015 Humboldt Research Track Scholar (preparing PhD project)
• 2014 MA in Classics (highest distinction)
• 2009–2012 University of Vienna, BA in Classics (highest distinction)

Grants and awards

• 2022 Shortlisted for the Hare Prize, University of Cambridge (outcome TBD)
• 2021 Research Fellowship, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
• 2021 Blackman Prize, St John’s College, University of Cambridge
• 2020 Junior Fellowship at the Centre for Advanced Studies Beyond Canon, University of Regensburg (invited by Prof. Tobias Nicklas)
• 2019 Visiting Scholarship at Heidelberg University, Collaborative Research Centre Materiale Textkulturen (invited by Prof. Jonas Grethlein)
• 2017 Gates Cambridge Scholarship
• 2016 German Academic Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes): research grant for visiting studentship at University of Cambridge
• 2016 German Academic Scholarship Foundation: PhD scholarship
• 2015  Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst: research scholarship
• 2014 Humboldt Research Track Scholarship (awarded annually to 5 outstanding students for the preparation of a research project)
• 2013 Humboldt University of Berlin: Faculty of Classics Scholarship (awarded annually to the most outstanding student of the Faculty)

•  Heliodorus’s Aethiopica: multidimensional narratology and ancient reading communities (monograph to be submitted for review to Cambridge Classical Studies, Cambridge University Press, in 2022).
•   The lives of Galaction and Episteme: converting the ancient novel in Byzantium (collaborative edition, translation, commentary, and essay collection for Bibliothèque de Byzantion, Peeters Publishers, to be submitted in 2023).
•   ‘ Musaeus’s Hero and Leander: a “polymorphous” allegory’ (in preparation).
•  ‘Merkelbach’s legacy: the Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, Julian’s Or. 7, and Heliodorus’s Aethiopica reconsidered’ (in preparation).
•   ‘All the world’s a stage: motivational ambiguity from Dio Chrysostom to The Sopranos’ (in preparation).
•   ‘Heliodorus’, Oxford Bibliographies (in preparation).
•   ‘The Second Sophistic’, in: Yasunori Kasai (ed.), Ancient Greek and Roman Culture, Tokyo (in Japanese, forthcoming 2022).
•    ‘Heliodorus, Greek novelist’, Oxford Classical Dictionary 5, 2019.
•   ‘De pellicula Pygmalionis et Galatheae a Georgio Méliès composita’, Latein in Berlin und Brandenburg 62, 231–233, 2018.
•   ‘The dynamics of summing up: a metaliterary reading of Heliodorus 10,36 and 10,39’, in: E. Cueva et al., Re-wiring the ancient novel (vol. 1: Greek novels), Groningen 2018, 153–175.
•   ‘What Charicles knew: fragmentary narration and ambiguity in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica’, Ancient Narrative 14, 175–194, 2017.
•   ‘Mit Platon durch die Zone: das Höhlengleichnis in Andrej Tarkowskijs “Stalker” (1979)’, Wiener Humanistische Blätter 56: 101–124, 2015.  
•   ‘Eine philologische Reise im Mondlicht: Karl Kerényis und Antal Szerbs Deutung der Odyssee’, Wiener Humanistische Blätter 51: 90–106, 2011.