Thea Selliaas Thorsen

Thorsen received her PhD in Latin from the University of Bergen in 2007, with a thesis entitled "Scribentis imagines in Ovidian authorship and scholarship".^[4][5] The thesis was a study of the authenticity of Heroides 15 (the Epistula Sapphus).^[6][7][8] She had earlier completed her Master᾽s thesis in Latin at the University of Oslo.^[9]

She has been employed by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology since 2009, first as a postdoctoral fellow funded by the Research Council of Norway (with a project entitled "The heterosexual tradition of homoerotic poets"^[10]), as an associate professor from 2014–2019 and as a full professor from 2019.^[11] She was the first Scandinavian editor of a volume on a classical topic in the Cambridge Companions series, with her edited volume The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy.^[12]

Thorsen was selected for the Young Academy of Europe in 2019.^[13] She is the academic project leader for Kanon, Gyldendal᾽s series for Norwegian translations of previously untranslated works from Greek and Roman antiquity.^[14] She published the first translations of Ovid᾽s love elegies into Norwegian, with scholarly introductions and notes, in elegiac couplets.^[15] In 2024, she published the first full translation of Ovid᾽s Metamorphoses into Norwegian.^[16] She has also published a novel, Pia Fraus (2004).

She is one of two editors (along with Laurel Fulkerson) of Ovidius, the journal of The International Ovidian Society (from 2024–2026).^[17][18]

Monographs in English

• Ovid᾽s Early Poetry (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Edited volumes

• Co-editor (with Antony Augoustakis and Stavros Frangolidis), Classical Enrichment: Greek and Latin Literature and its Reception (De Gruyter, 2025) ISBN 978-311157684-8
• Co-editor (with Dr. Iris Brecke and Prof. Stephen Harrison), Greek and Latin Love: The Poetic Connection (Walter de Gruyter, 2021)
• Co-editor (with Prof. Stephen Harrison), Roman Receptions of Sappho (Oxford University Press, 2019)
• Co-editor (with Prof. Stephen Harrison), Dynamics of Ancient Prose (De Gruyter, 2018)
• Editor, The Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Editor, Greek and Roman Games in the Computer Age (Akademika, 2012)

Doctoral dissertation

• Scribentis imagines in Ovidian authorship and scholarship (University of Bergen, 2007).

Publications in Norwegian

• Co-author (with Vibeke Roggen, Siri Sande and Per-Bjarne Ravnå) Antikkens kultur (Aschehoug, 2010)^[19] ISBN 978-82-03-33743-7
• Kom ikke uten begjær, essays (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2012)^[20] ISBN 978-82-05-40961-3

Translations into Norwegian

• Heroides – Heltinnebrev (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2001) ISBN 82-05-29132-2
• Amores – Kjærlighetseventyr (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2002) ISBN 82-05-30783-0
• Ars Amandi – Kunsten å elske (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2006) ISBN 978-82-05-35358-9
• Kjærlighetskuren og Brevvekslinger (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2009) ISBN 978-82-05-38775-1
• Metamorfoser (Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2024) ISBN 9788205587762