
Prof. Anca Dan
Professor of Classics at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (University Paris Sciences & Letters) and Associate research professor of Archaeology at the National Center for Scientific Research, France
Born in Romania in 1980, she obtained her PhD in Classics and Archaeology in 2009 (University of Reims) and she has worked as a teaching and research assistant in France (Sorbonne and Reims Universities), Greece (National Research Foundation), Germany (German Archaeological Institute, Free University of Berlin), USA (Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies) until 2012, when she became a researcher in the National Center for Scientific Research in Paris. She studies texts, maps and geo-archaeological sites, in order to reconstruct the ancient landscapes, to find out the relationships between people and places, and to understand the cultural transfers that determined their representations. At the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, she is coordinating the international program “Humanities in the text”, which creates interdisciplinary and multimedia modules for the teaching of ancient languages.