NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Panagiotis Agapitos is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the

University of Cyprus. He has published widely on Byzantine learned
and vernacular literature, with special emphasis on narratology,
poetics and genre studies. He is currently writing a history of
Byzantine literature.

Margaret Alexiou is George Seferis Professor (Emerita) of Modern

Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard
University. She began her work in Greek with the ancient lament, then
explored interconnections between ritual and poetry, metaphor and
language, voice and emotion, across other ages and genres. Her final
work on twelfth-century begging poetry, most probably by Theodore
Prodromos, is nearing completion.

Michael Angold is Professor Emeritus of Byzantine History at the

University of Edinburgh. His translation of the works of Nicholas
Mesarites is in press.

Roderick Beaton is Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine

History, Language and Literature at King’s College London. He has
published widely on Greek literature, culture and history from the
twelfth century to the present. His most recent books are Byron’s War:
Romantic Rebellion, Greek Revolution (2013) and, in Greek, The Idea
of the Nation in Greek Literature: From Byzantium to Modern Greece
(2015).

Simone Beta is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of

Siena. He has published books and articles on ancient Greek comedy
and its reception. His most recent publication is Il labirinto della
parola: Enigmi, oracoli e sogni nella cultura antica (2016).

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Elena Boeck is Director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks and

Professor of History of Art at DePaul University. She has published
on cross-cultural exchange and contestation of established cultural
narratives in the Byzantine world. She recently published Imagining
the Byzantine Past: The Perception of History in the Illustrated
Manuscripts of Skylitzes and Manasses (2015). She is currently writing
a cross-cultural biography of the equestrian monument of Justinian
which stood by the Hagia Sophia.

Douglas Cairns is Professor of Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

He has published widely on ancient Greek literature, society and
ethics, especially the emotions. His most recent publications are
Sophocles: Antigone and (ed. with Damien Nelis) Emotions in the
Classical World (both 2016).

Stephen Halliwell is Professor of Greek and Wardlaw Professor of

Classics at the University of St Andrews. His books include The
Aesthetics of Mimesis (2002), Greek Laughter: A Study of Cultural
Psychology from Homer to Christianity (2008) and Between Ecstasy and
Truth: Interpretations of Greek Poetics from Homer to Longinus (2011).

Susan Ashbrook Harvey is the Willard Prescott and Annie McClelland

Smith Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. She has
published widely on Christianity of the Byzantine and Syriac tradi-
tions, particularly with respect to women, asceticism, hagiography,
hymnography, and religion and the senses. She is the author of
Scenting Salvation: Ancient Christianity and the Olfactory Imagination
(2006) and co-author of Jacob of Sarug’s Homilies on Women Whom
Jesus Met (2016).

Judith Herrin is Professor Emerita of Late Antique and Byzantine

Studies and Constantine Leventis Senior Research Fellow at King’s
College London. Her recent publications include Margins and
Metropolis: Authority across the Byzantine Empire and Unrivalled
Influence: Women and Empire in Byzantium (both 2013). In 2016 she
was awarded the Dr A. H. Heineken Prize for History.

Martin Hinterberger is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the

University of Cyprus. He has published widely on Byzantine litera-
ture, especially the emotions, hagiography, autobiography and lan-
guage. His most recent publications are Phthonos: Mißgunst, Neid und
Eifersucht in der byzantinischen Literatur (2013) and The Language of
Byzantine Learned Literature (2014).
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David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University
of Cambridge. He specialises in the Renaissance literature of Crete and
Cyprus and the history of Greek. He is directing a project to produce a
substantial reference grammar of Medieval and Early Modern Greek
(publication expected in 2018).

Calum Maciver is a Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh.

He has published on imperial literature, especially Greek epic, and is
author of Quintus Smyrnaeus: Engaging Homer in Late Antiquity
(2012).

Przemysław Marciniak is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the

University of Silesia. He has published on Byzantine performativity,
humour and satires, as well as on the reception of Byzantine culture.
His most recent publications include  The Reception of Byzantium in
European Culture since 1500 (ed. with Dion C. Smythe, 2015) and A
Dance in the Role of Thersites: A Study on Byzantine Satires (in Polish,
2016).

Margaret Mullett was Professor of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s

University Belfast and then Director of Byzantine Studies at
Dumbarton Oaks. She is working on tents, laments, the Holy Apostles
in Constantinople and the Christos Paschon, and editing (with Susan
Harvey) Managing Emotion in Byzantium: Passions, Affects and
Imaginings. She is currently Professor of Byzantine Social History at
the University of Vienna.

Ingela Nilsson is Professor of Greek and Byzantine Studies at Uppsala

University. She has published widely on questions of narrative and
imitation in Byzantium, with a special focus on the twelfth century.
Her most recent publications include Raconter Byzance: La littérature
au XIIe siècle and (ed. with Paul Stephenson) Wanted: Byzantium –
The Desire for a Lost Empire (both 2014).

Ioannis Papadogiannakis is Lecturer in Classics and Theology and

Religious Studies at King’s College London and specialises in late
antique and Byzantine intellectual and religious history. His most
recent publications include Defining Identities and Beliefs in the
Eastern Mediterranean and Emotions in Patristic Literature (both to
appear in 2017).

Aglae Pizzone is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Medieval

Literature, University of Southern Denmark, Odense. Her research
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interests revolve around middle Byzantine literature (literary theory,

fiction, commentary literature). Her most recent publications include
The Author in Middle Byzantine Literature (ed., 2014).

Richard Seaford is  Professor of Ancient Greek Emeritus at the

University of Exeter. His most recent monograph is Cosmology and
the Polis: The Social Construction of Space and Time in the Tragedies
of Aeschylus (2012). He is currently preparing a monograph that com-
pares early Indian with early Greek thought.

Anna Stavrakopoulou is Associate Professor of Theatre Studies at

the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published articles
in both English and Greek on modern Greek literature and theatre,
especially on the shadow theatre, comedy and theatrical translation.
Her most recent publication is a translation with introduction of a
1785 Phanariot play, Alexandrovodas the Unscrupulous (2012).

Jan R. Stenger is Douglas MacDowell Professor of Greek at the

University of Glasgow. He has published on Greek lyric poetry, late
antique literature and culture and ancient education. Recent publica-
tions include articles on John Chrysostom and the co-edited volume
Cityscaping: Constructing and Modelling Images of the City (2015).

Alicia Walker is Associate Professor in the Department of History

of Art at Bryn Mawr College. Her current research focuses on
cross-­cultural artistic interaction between the Byzantine and medi-
eval Islamic worlds and gender issues in Byzantine art and material
culture. She is currently at work on a new book provisionally entitled
Christian Bodies, Pagan Images: Women, Beauty, and Morality in
Medieval Byzantium.

Ruth Webb is Professor of Greek at the Université Lille 3. She has

published widely on the popular theatrical traditions of late antiquity
and on the rhetorical theory and practice of the imperial period, par-
ticularly the use of words to appeal to the imagination and thus to the
emotions.

Stephanie West is an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College, Oxford.

She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1990, and a
Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences (PAU)
in 2012. Her principal research interests are in Homer, Herodotus and
Lycophron. She is currently working on a commentary on Herodotus
book 4.
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