Virginie Girod


Virginie Girod is a French historian, and specialist chronicler of the history of women and sexuality.

Biography

Virginie Girod was born in Rillieux-la-Pape, in Lyon, on 22 September 1983.
Her university studies included Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 and Paris-Sorbonne University.
She supported a thesis of 3rd cycle in 2011 conducted by called Yann Le Bohec and Giles Sauron « L’érotisme féminin à Rome, dans le Latium et en Campanie, sous les Julio-Claudiens et les Flaviens : recherches d’histoire sociale ».
She teaches Roman history then Université populaire de Caen, founded by Michel Onfray, from 2014 to 2016. Since 2018, she started teaching studies in Ancient Roman History in Paris Diderot University.
She has collaborated in numerous magazines such as Lire, Le Point, Civilisations, and Historia.