ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥΛΑ ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ
ΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΝΟΥ ΣΤΑΥΡΟΥΛΑ
CONSTANTINOU STAVROULA
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ΑΝΑΠΛΗΡΩΤΗΣ/ΡΙΑ ΚΑΘΗΓΗΤΗΣ/ΡΙΑ
Τμήμα Βυζαντινών και Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών
Αποστολίδη
Λεωφ. Καλλιπόλεως 10 και Ερεσσού 1
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ucy.academia.edu/StavroulaConstantinou

    Προσωπικό Προφίλ

    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). Είναι επίσης συντονίστρια των ερευνητικών προγραμμάτων: Γαλακτοφόροι Μαστοί: Μητρότητα και Θηλασμός από τους Ελληνιστικούς στους Πρώιμους Βυζαντινούς Χρόνους, 4ος αι. π.Χ.- 7ος αι. μ.Χ. [ΜητρικόΣτήθος] (https://ucy.ac.cy/motherbreast/el/) και Τύποι Αφηγήσεων σε Συλλογές: Προς μια Θεωρία της Αρχαίας και Βυζαντινής Σύντομης Διήγησης (2ος-7ος αι. μ.Χ.) [TaleTheory] (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/taletheory/el/ ), τα οποία χρηματοδοτούνται από το Ευρωπαϊκό Ταμείο Περιφερειακής Ανάπτυξης και την Κυπριακή Δημοκρατία μέσω του Ιδρύματος Έρευνας και Καινοτομίας (ΙδΕΚ). Συντονίζει, επιπλέον, το ευρωπαϊκό πρόγραμμα Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals στο πλαίσιο του οποίου το Πανεπιστήμιο Κύπρου συνεργάζεται με το Center for Medieval Literature του Πανεπιστημίου της Νοτίου Δανίας και το Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien του Πανεπιστημίου Bamberg στη Γερμανία.
     
     
     

                                         

    Η έρευνά της περιστρέφεται γύρω από την εξέταση Βυζαντινών αφηγήσεων (κυρίως αγιολογικών και ερωτικών), το φύλο, την τελετουργία, ζητήματα ποιητικής και θεατρικότητας και τα συναισθήματα. Ιδιαίτερα όσον αφορά τη διάσταση του φύλου, δημοσιευμένες μελέτες της διερευνούν τις ακόλουθες πτυχές: συναισθήματα με βάση το φύλο, γυναικεία και ανδρική αγιότητα, Βυζαντινή ιδεολογία σχετικά με τις γυναίκες, λογοτεχνικά πορτραίτα γυναικών, και το ανθρώπινο σώμα.

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

    with C. Høgel 2021. Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill

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    with M. Meyer 2019. Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan

     
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    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
     
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     Βιβλιοκρισίες
    •Martin Marko Vučetić, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2016) 43.3
    •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)
     
    2021
    1. Constantinou, S.,  “Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives”, in: I. Nilsson and P. Marciniak (eds.) A Companion to Byzantine Satire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 81-103
    2. Constantinou, S. “Metaphrasis: Mapping Byzantine Rewriting”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 3-60
    3. Constantinou, S. “A Rewriter at Work: Nikephoros Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 324-342
    4. Constantinou, S. “Angry Warriors in the Byzantine War of Troy”, in D. Cairns et al. (eds.) Emotions Through Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press
     
    2020
    Constantinou, S. “‘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: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. 6.1: The Early Middle Ages. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 13-32
     
    2019
    1. “Thekla the Virgin: Women’s Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr”, in: A. Korangi and L. Rouhi (eds.) The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures [Martyrdom and Literature]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 73-86
    2.  "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
     
    2018
    1. "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
    2. “‘Das Haupt der Frau ist der Mann’: Kyriarchat und 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
     

    Profile Information

    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). She is also the Coordinator of the research projects Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Byzantium, 4th Century BCE-7th Century CE [MotherBreast] (https://ucy.ac.cy/motherbreast/en/ ) and Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale (2nd Century CE–7th Century CE) [TaleTheory] (http://www.ucy.ac.cy/taletheory/en/ ). Both projects are funded by the European Regional Development Fund and the Republic of Cyprus through the Foundation of Research and Innovation. Furthermore, she is the coordinator of the European twinning project Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals which constitutes a close collaboration among the University of Cyprus, the Center of Medieval Literature (University of Southern Denmark) and the Zentrum für Mittelalterstudien (University of Bamberg).

    Her research focuses on Byzantine Greek narratives (mainly hagiography and romance), gender, ritual, performance, and emotions. Concerning gender in particular, she has published on the following: gendered emotions, female and male sainthood, Byzantine ideologies concerning women, literary portraits of women, and the female body.

    BOOKS
    2005. Female Corporeal Performances: Reading the Body in Byzantine Passions and Lives of Holy Women [Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia 9]. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
     
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     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
     
    EDITED VOLUMES
    with C. Høgel 2020. Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill
     
    9789004438453.jpg
     
    with M. Meyer 2019. Emotions and Gender in Byzantine Culture [New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture 4]. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan
     
     517HvlF9PBL._AC_US218_.jpg
     
     
    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
     
     41uNEWRw4HL._AC_US218_.jpg
     
    Reviews
    •Martin Marko Vučetić, Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung (2016) 43.3
    •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)

    2021

    1. Constantinou, S.,  “Satirical Elements in Hagiographical Narratives”, in: I. Nilsson and P. Marciniak (eds.) A Companion to Byzantine Satire. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 81-103
    2.  Constantinou, S. “Metaphrasis: Mapping Byzantine Rewriting”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 3-60
    3. Constantinou, S. “A Rewriter at Work: Nikephoros Xanthopoulos and the Pege Miracles”, in: S. Constantinou and C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products [The Medieval Mediterranean]. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 324-342
    4. Constantinou, S. “Angry Warriors in the Byzantine War of Troy”, in D. Cairns et al. (eds.) Emotions Through Time. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press

    2020

    Constantinou, S. “‘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: An Encyclopedia of Exegesis and Cultural History. 6.1: The Early Middle Ages. Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 13-32

    2019

    1. “Thekla the Virgin: Women’s Sacrifice and the Generic Martyr”, in: A. Korangi and L. Rouhi (eds.) The ‘Other’ Martyrs: Women and the Poetics of Sexuality, Sacrifice, and Death in World Literatures [Martyrdom and Literature]. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 73-86
    2.  "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

    2018

    1. "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
    2. “‘Das Haupt der Frau ist der Mann’: Kyriarchat und 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
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