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Biographie
Leonie Defonteyne is a doctoral student in Classical Archaeology at the University of Oxford (Lincoln College), who has been granted a Fondation Wiener-Anspach Doctoral Fellowship to conduct eight months of research at the CReA-Patrimoine (Université libre de Bruxelles). Leonie has previously completed an MSt in Classical Archaeology and a BA in Classical Archaeology & Ancient History at the University of Oxford (University College). She is also a Research Assistant at the Beazley Archive (Classical Art Research Centre).
Domaine de recherche
Her thesis focuses on the representation of women on non-Attic black-figure vases. The study of women in Greek vase-painting has been mostly concentrated on Athenian imagery, while depictions of women on pottery produced outside of Athens remain less well understood. Leonie’s research aims to partly address this gap in the scholarship of Greek vase-painting by focusing on the black-figure pottery from the Archaic period. She will be highlighting the Athenocentric bias that dominates traditional scholarship, as well as engaging with iconographic and feminist theory. Her methodology is inspired by New Materialism, which means that the full materiality of the vase and its archaeological context will be taken into account to understand the historical significance of the imagery in its potential to shape women and to be reshaped by women. The black-figure technique often uses added white or even outline instead of pure black-figure for the depiction of women, so this tension between technique and iconography makes black-figure a particularly striking case-study.
Thèse en cours
The representation of women on non-Attic black-figure vases
- Oxford supervisor: Thomas Mannack
- ULB supervisor: Athena Tsingarida