Έκανε τις βασικές της σπουδές στο Πανεπιστήμιο Kύπρου στο Tμήμα Bυζαντινών και Nεοελληνικών Σπουδών (1992-1996). Mεταπτυχιακές σπουδές έκανε στο Freie Universitat Berlin (MA στη Bυζαντινή Φιλολογία, 1997-1999) και στο Cambridge University (MPhil στην Eυρωπαϊκή Λογοτεχνία, 1999-2000). Tον Iούλιο του 2003 υποστήριξε τη διδακτορική της διατριβή στο Freie Universitat Berlin. Στο Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου διδάσκει Βυζαντινή Φιλολογία από το 2004. Υπήρξε υπότροφος του Ιδρύματος Alexander von Humboldt (2010-11, http://www.humboldt-foundation.de). Είναι μέλος του Ευρωπαϊκού Πολιτιστικού Κοινοβουλίου (http://www.kulturparlament.com/).

 

 

 

                                     

Bασικό ερευνητικό της ενδιαφέρον αποτελεί η μελέτη και η θεωρητική προσέγγιση της βυζαντινής λογοτεχνίας και ειδικότερα της πεζογραφίας. Aσχολείται με ζητήματα ποιητικής, θεατρικότητας (performance) και λογοτεχνικών ειδών. Tην ενδιαφέρουν κυρίως οι αφηγηματικές και οι φεμινιστικές προσεγγίσεις των βυζαντινών λογοτεχνικών κειμένων. Kεντρικό μέρος των ερευνητικών της ενδιαφερόντων καλύπτει και η ενασχόληση με θέματα όπως το σώμα και η εικόνα του Άλλου στη βυζαντινή λογοτεχνία.

2005. Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 9]. Ουψάλα

 

 

 

 Βιβλιοκρισίες και βιβλιοπαρουσιάσεις

•Per-Arne Bodin, “Att genom lidande bli till man”, Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper) 04.08.05, section culture

•Kathryn Ringrose, Speculum (2006) 81: 4, 1171-1172

•Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Le Museon (2006) 119: 3-4, 474-476

•Alice-Mary Talbot, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2007), 58: 309-310

•Panayotis Yannopoulos, Byzantion (2008), 78: 531

 

with M. Meyer 2018. Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

 

 

 

with A. Beihammer and M. Parani 2013. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Medieval Mediterranean [The Medieval Mediterranean 98]. Leiden and Boston: Brill

 

 

 Βιβλιοκρισίες

•Martin Marko Vučetić, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2016) 43.3: https://doi.org/10.3790/zhf.43.3.501
•Martin Schaller, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (2016) 124.1: 179-180

•Nicholas Matheou, Royal Studies Journal (2015), 2. 2: 47-51
•Leonora Neville, Speculum (2015) 90.2: 498-499
•David Rollason, The English Historical Review (2015) 130.1: 947-948

 

 

ΑΡΘΡΑ (τελευταία 5 χρόνια)

1. “Thekla the Virgin: Women’s Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr”, in: A. Korangi and L. Rouhi (eds) The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Womenand the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures [Martyrdom and Literature]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, in press

 

2. “Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives”, in: I. Nilsson and P. Marciniak (eds) A Companion to Byzantine Satire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, in press

 

3. “‘Woman’s Head is Man’: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds) The Bible and Women: The Early Middle Ages VI-XII, Vol. 6.1., in press

 

1. "Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response", in: S. Constantinou and M. Meyer (eds.) Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 283-315

 

2. "Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy: Between (Wo)men", in A. Goldwyn and I. Nilsson (eds.) Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 254-271

 

3. “‘Das Haupt der Frau ist der Mann’: Kyriarchatund die Rhetorik weiblicher Unterordnung in der byzantinischen Literatur”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Frühmittelalter (6.-11. Jh.), Die Bible und die Frauen, 6.1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 21-44

 

1. "The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (Self-)Torture in Byzantine Hagiography", Classica et Mediaevalia 66 (2015), 285-320

 

2. "Bloodthirsty Emperors: Performances of Imperial Punishments in Byzantine Hagiography", in: E. Birge Vitz and M. Pomerantz (eds.) In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-modern Middle East (700-1600 CE). New York and London: New York University Press, 30-41

 

"Horizons of Clerical Authors and Audiences: Towards a Sociology of the Miracle Story Collection", Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016, Round Tables. Belgrade: Serbian National Committee of AIEB, 86-90, http://www.byzinst-sasa.rs/srp/uploaded/PDF%20izdanja/round%20tables.pdf

 

1. “Rewriting Beauty and Youth in Female Martyr Legends”, in: S. Efthymiadis, Ch. Messis, P. Odorico, I. Polemis (eds.), "Pour une poétique à Byzance". Hommage à Vassilis Katsaros, Paris 2015 [Dossiers Byzantins 16]. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniqueset sud-est européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 99-112

 

2. “‘Il capo della donna è l’uomo’: la Kyriarchia e la retorica della subordinazione femminile nella letteratura bizantina”, tr. L. Ceccarelli, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Donne e Bibbia nel Medioevo. Secoli VI-XII,Vol. 6.1. Tripani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 17-36

 

 

She was born in Dhekelia (Cyprus). She studied at the University of Cyprus (1992-1996), the Free University Berlin (1997-1999, 2000-2003), and the University of Cambridge (1999-2000). Since 2004, she teaches Byzantine philology at the University of Cyprus. She spent the academic year 2010-11 in Berlin as a Humboldt fellow (http://www.humboldt-foundation.de). She is a member of the European Cultural Parlament (http://www.kulturparlament.com/).

Her research interests include hagiography, critical edition of hagiographical texts, Byzantine literary genres, poetics, performance, narrative and feminist approaches, the body in Byzantine literature and culture and the literary image of the Other.

2005. Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 9]. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis

 

 

 Reviews and Book Presentations

•Per-Arne Bodin, “Att genom lidande bli till man”, Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish newspaper) 04.08.05, section culture

•Kathryn Ringrose, Speculum (2006) 81: 4, 1171-1172

•Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Le Museon (2006) 119: 3-4, 474-476

•Alice-Mary Talbot, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History (2007), 58: 309-310

•Panayotis Yannopoulos, Byzantion (2008), 78: 531

 

with M. Meyer 2018. Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

 

 

 

 

with A. Beihammer and M. Parani 2013. Court Ceremonies and Rituals of Power in the Medieval Mediterranean [The Medieval Mediterranean 98]. Leiden and Boston: Brill

 

 

 

Reviews
•Martin Marko Vučetić, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2016) 43.3: https://doi.org/10.3790/zhf.43.3.501
•Martin Schaller, Mitteilungen des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung (2016) 124.1: 179-180
•Nicholas Matheou, Royal Studies Journal (2015), 2. 2: 47-51
•Leonora Neville, Speculum (2015) 90.2: 498-499
•David Rollason, The English Historical Review (2015) 130.1: 947-948

 

ARTICLES (last five years)

2019

1. “Thekla the Virgin: Women’s Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr”, in: A. Korangi and L. Rouhi (eds) The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Womenand the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures [Martyrdom and Literature]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, in press

2. “Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives”, in: I. Nilsson and P. Marciniak (eds) A Companion to Byzantine Satire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, in press

3. “‘Woman’s Head is Man’: Kyriarchy and the Rhetoric of Women’s Subordination in Byzantine Literature”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds) The Bible and Women: The Early Middle Ages VI-XII, Vol. 6.1., in press

 

2018

1. "Gendered Emotions and Affective Genders: A Response", in: S. Constantinou and M. Meyer (eds.) Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 283-315

2. "Homosocial Desire in the War of Troy: Between (Wo)men", in A. Goldwyn and I. Nilsson (eds.) Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 254-271

3. “‘Das Haupt der Frau ist der Mann’: Kyriarchatund die Rhetorik weiblicher Unterordnung in der byzantinischen Literatur”, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Zwischen Orient und Okzident: Frühmittelalter (6.-11. Jh.), Die Bible und die Frauen, 6.1. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 21-44

2017

1. "The Saint's Two Bodies: Sensibility under (Self-)Torture in Byzantine Hagiography", Classica et Mediaevalia 66 (2015), 285-320

2. "Bloodthirsty Emperors: Performances of Imperial Punishments in Byzantine Hagiography", in: E. Birge Vitz and M. Pomerantz (eds.) In the Presence of Power: Court and Performance in the Pre-modern Middle East (700-1600 CE). New York and London: New York University Press, 30-41

2016

"Horizons of Clerical Authors and Audiences: Towards a Sociology of the Miracle Story Collection", Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Belgrade, 22-27 August 2016, Round Tables. Belgrade: Serbian National Committee of AIEB, 86-90, http://www.byzinst-sasa.rs/srp/uploaded/PDF%20izdanja/round%20tables.pdf

2015

1. “Rewriting Beauty and Youth in Female Martyr Legends”, in: S. Efthymiadis, Ch. Messis, P. Odorico, I. Polemis (eds.), "Pour une poétique à Byzance". Hommage à Vassilis Katsaros, Paris 2015 [Dossiers Byzantins 16]. Paris: Centre d’études byzantines, néo-helléniqueset sud-est européennes, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 99-112

2. “‘Il capo della donna è l’uomo’: la Kyriarchia e la retorica della subordinazione femminile nella letteratura bizantina”, tr. L. Ceccarelli, in: F.-E. Consolino and J. Herrin (eds.) Donne e Bibbia nel Medioevo. Secoli VI-XII,Vol. 6.1. Tripani: Il Pozzo di Giacobbe, 17-36

2014

1. "Holy Actors and Actresses: Fools and Cross-Dressers as the Protagonists of Saints' Lives", in: S. Efthymiadis (ed.) The Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography, vol. 2: Genres and Contexts. Aldershot: Ashgate, 345-364

2. "Performing Gender in the Lives of Lay Saints", Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 38.1, 24-32