Katharina-Maria Schön is a classicist and a Renaissance scholar. She has completed her dissertation on Thomas More's Utopia (2022), and her forthcoming monograph (2025) on this work focusses on the aspects of polyphony, paradoxes, and the philosophical state construction.
As a research fellow of the GrECI project at the Norwegian Institute in Rome, she will work on the philosophical poetry of Daniel Heinsius (1580–1655), in particular his Peplus Epigrammatum Graecorum, an understudied collection of epigrams in humanist Greek. Among other things, she will examine the ways in which the humanist projected his own ethical viewpoints and religious outlook on his portrayal of various Greek philosophers in his poems.
Another interest of Katharina is the political Neo-Latin literature of the twentieth century that was written under the totalitarian regimes of Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler. She is the co-editor of Texts of Tyranny: A Selection of Latin Works from Italian and German National Socialism, together with Han Lamers and Bettina Reitz-Joosse (currently under review).