Since 2008 Jan Stenger has served as Junior Professor of Classical Philology in the Excellence Cluster Topoi at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research project and activities combine linguistics and literary studies. In research group C-I-1 “The Conception of Spaces in Language”, he is working with an interdisciplinary graduate group on the problem of how spatial relations are expressed in the diverse languages of antiquity and to what extent linguistic universalia manifest themselves in these expressions. He is also supervising a dissertation project on verbs of motion in Greek. Furthermore, he is particularly interested in the Greek literature of late antiquity. His research deals with literary constructions of geographical and urban spaces in a dialog between pagan and Christian positions.