Dr. Giulia Gollo

Berufserfahrung:

• 1.11.2026-30.10.2029 = FWO Junior Postdoctoral Fellowship at KU Leuven, Department of Greek Studies
  Project title: Rewriting in Medieval Greek Literature: Doublets in Middle Byzantine Hagiography
  Host: Prof. Dr. Reinhart Ceulemans
  Co-hosts: Prof. Dr. Christian Høgel (Lund University) and Dr. Julie Van Pelt (Ghent University)
• 1.12.2025-31.08.2026 Guest researcher at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research (Division of Byzantine research), (Vienna).
  Project title: Tenth-Century Studite Hagiography: A Comparative Study of the Life of Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278) and the Life of Nicholas of Studios (BHG 1365)
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Andreas Rhoby
• 01.10.2022 - 30.09.2025 wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an dem durch die Fritz Thyssen Stiftung geförderten Drittmittelprojekt “The Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography (8th–10th Century)”
  Universität zu Köln, Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie und Leuven Katholieke Universiteit, Faculteit Letteren, Griekse Studies

Akademische Bildung:

• 11.2022-04.2026 Promotionsstudium Byzantinistik
  Universität zu Köln, Institut für Altertumskunde, Abteilung Byzantinistik und Neugriechische Philologie und
  Leuven Katholieke Universiteit, Faculteit Letteren, Griekse Studies
  Projekt: Biblical Intertextuality in Byzantine New-Saint Hagiography. An Analysis of the Presence of the Bible in Greek Lives from the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
  Betreuern: Prof. Dr. Claudia Sode (Universität zu Köln); Prof. Dr. Reinhart Ceulemans (Leuven Katholieke Universiteit)
• 09.2019-07.2021 Masterstudium Altertumswissenschaften (Laurea magistrale in Lettere classiche)
  Università degli Studi di Siena (Italien), Dipartimento di Filologia e Critica delle Letterature Antiche e Moderne
  Masterarbeit: Acta Cosmae et Damiani: il manoscritto Lond. Add. 37534 (BHG 373b).Testo greco, traduzione e commento folkloric
  Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Tommaso Braccini
• 09.2016-07.2019 Bachelorstudium Altertumswissenschaften (Laurea Triennale in Lettere – Curriculum antico)
  Università degli studi di Torino (Italien), Dipartimento di Studi umanistici
  Bachelorarbeit: La nutrice a Bisanzio: le testimonianze letterarie
  Betreuer: Prof. Dr. Luigi Silvano

Weiterbildung und akademische Auslandsaufenthalte:

• 18.07-05.08.2022 Byzantine Greek Summer School (Boğaziçi University Byzantine Studies Research Center)
• 23-24.05.2022 OIKOS “Crash-Course in Greek Palaeography” (Ghent University, Belgium)
• 01.03-30.04.2022 Gastforscherin ÖAW, Institut für Mittelalterforschung, Abteilung Byzanzforschung (Wien, Österreich)
• 01.09-21.12.2021 Praktikant Leuven Katholieke Universiteit, Faculteit Letteren, Griekse Studies https://www.arts.kuleuven.be/grieks/thomson/internship
• 02-03.11.2021 OIKOS course “Byzantine Cultural History” (Ghent University)
• 27.09-01.10.2021 “A Practical Introduction to Digital Epigraphy: EpiDoc and EFES Online Training Week” (University of Cologne and St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia)
• 27.07.2019-03.08.2019 Summer School Cipro: un’isola nel tempo. Orizzonti culturali greci preistoria alla modernità (Cyprus)

• Byzantinischen Literatur
• Hagiographie
• Literaturkritik
• Handschriftenkunde
• Genderforschung
• Alte Folklore

1. Herausgeberschaft

1. [in progress; accepted] with Ó. Prieto Domínguez (eds.), A Narratological Approach to Byzantine Hagiographical Literature: Key Case Studies. Brepols (Fabulae).
2. [forthcoming] with C. I. Dumitru (eds.), Variations and Functions of Intertextuality in Byzantine Literature. Routledge: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies. 2026.
3. with C. Brignone, L. Calvelli and L. Mazzotta (eds.), A Land for Strangers. Non-native Individuals and Communities in Cyprus. Venezia: Venice University Press. 2025.

2. Zeitschriften

1. “Mappare l’intertestualità biblica nell’agiografia bizantina dei secoli ottavo-decimo: tipi, distribuzione e frequenza dei riferimenti biblici”. In: F. Potenza et al. (eds.). Territori e Culture. Letture contemporanee del mondo bizantino. Atti del IX Congresso Nazionale dell’Associazione Italiana di Studi Bizantini (Palermo, 19-22 giugno 2024). Palermo: UnipaPress (Atti e Convegni). 327–337.
2. (with L. Sels), “Towards a Greek-Slavonic Edition of the Life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278)”. Byzantinoslavica83/1–2 (2025): 175–193. https://doi.org/10.58377/byzslav.2025.10
3. “Una correzione in Flegonte di Tralle, De Mir. 144-145?”. Prometheus 49 (2023), 238–241.
4. “Byzantine Incubation Literature between Religion and Medicine: Food as Medicament in the Collection of Healing Miracles Performed by Saints Cosmas and Damian (BHG 373b)”. Studia Ceranea. Journal of the Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe 12 (2022), 75–93.
5. “Folklore and Greek Hagiography. Some Preliminary Notes”. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore journal 86 (2022), 193–202.
6. “Midwives in Byzantium: An Overview”. Estudios Bizantinos 10 (2022), 97–121.
7. “Self-Portrait from the Exile: Nikephoros Basilakes’ Third Letter”. Parekbolai 12 (2022), 1–26.

3. Buchbeiträge

1. [accepted] Rewriting Texts, Remaking Storyworlds: Narrative Space across the Pre-metaphrastic (BHG 935 and 936) and Metaphrastic (BHG 937) Lives of Ioannikios. In: G. Gollo and Ó. Prieto Domínguez (eds), A Narratological Approach to Byzantine Hagiographical Literature: Key Case-Studies. Turnhout: Brepols (Fabulae) 
2. [forthcoming] “New Life, New Bible? Biblical Intertextuality in the Hagiographical Doublets of Ioannikios (BHG 935–936) and Peter of Atroa (BHG 2364–2365)”. In: G. Gollo and C. I. Dumitru (eds.), Variations and Functions of Intertextuality in Byzantine Literature. Routledge: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies.
3. [forthcoming] (with C. I. Dumitru) “Introduction”. In: G. Gollo and C. I. Dumitru (eds.), Variations and Functions of Intertextuality in Byzantine Literature. Routledge: Routledge Research in Byzantine Studies.
4. [forthcoming] “Writers as Painters, Texts as Colourful Icons: Authenticity as Stylistic Strategy in The Life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278)”. In: D. Wahlin and C. Sode (eds.). Realism in Hagiography. Changchun: Supplements to the Journal of Ancient Civilizations.
5. [forthcoming] “The Gendering of Female Saints: Holy Women and Biblical Exempla in Middle Byzantine Hagiography”. In: C. Sode and R. Ceulemans (eds.). The Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography. Leuven: Peeters.
6. (with C. Brignone and L. Mazzotta) “Introduction”. In: C. Brignone, L. Calvelli, G. Gollo, and L. Mazzotta (eds.), A Land for Strangers. Non-native Individuals and Communities in Cyprus. Venezia: Venice University Press, 2025: 17–19.
7. “Reading the Proems of Middle Byzantine Hagiography through Biblical Intertextuality”. In: K. A. Azar, M. Pelucchi, E. G. Simonetti, and P. Zaccaria (eds.). Networking through Proems: Proemial Strategies for Intellectual Networking in Antiquity. De Gruyter (Trends in Classics 17/2). Berlin: 339–364. https://doi.org/10.1515/tc-2025-0019

3. Rezensionen

• “Maria E. Doerfler, Jephthah’s Daughter, Sarah’s Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity, Oakland, CA, University of California Press, 2019 (Christianity in Late Antiquity), pp. XIV + 396. [ISBN 9780520304154]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO, vol. 20, 2020, pp. 406-407 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Silvia Ronchey, Francesco Monticini (edd.), Bisanzio nello spazio e nel tempo. Costantinopoli, la Siria. Atti della XIV Giornata di studi dell’AISB (Roma, 10-11 novembre 2017), Roma, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2019 (Orientalia Christiana Analecta 307), pp. 236. [ISBN 9788872103999]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 20 (2020), 451-452 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Bram Roosen, Peter van Deun (eds.), The Literary Legacy of Byzantium. Editions, Translations, and Studies in Honour of Joseph A. Munitz SJ, Turnhout, Brepols, 2019, pp. VI + 564, ill. [ISBN 9782503583549]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 20 (2020), 452-453 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Roberta Franchi, Dalla Grande Madre alla Madre La maternità nel mondo classico e cristiano: miti e modelli, I: La Grecia, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2018 (Hellenica. Testi e strumenti di letteratura greca antica, medievale e umanistica 74), pp. XII + 358. [ISBN 9788862748889]; II, Roma, Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso, 2019 (Hellenica. Testi e strumenti di letteratura greca antica, medievale e umanistica 75), pp. X + 360. [ISBN 9788862748896]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 19 (2019), 422-423 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Niels Gaul, Volker Menze, Csanád Bálint (eds.), Center, Province and Periphery in the Age of Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos. From «De Ceremoniis» to «De Administrando Imperio», Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 2018 (Mainzer Veröffentlichungen zur Byzantinistik 15), XVI + 300. [ISBN 9783447109291]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 19 (2019), 423-425 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Maria Gerolemou (ed.), Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity And Beyond, Berlin-Boston, de Gruyter, 2018 (Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes 53), pp. XX + 422. [ISBN 9783110530469]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 19 (2019), 425-426 (ISSN 1593-456X);
• “Paul Stephenson, The Serpent Column. A Cultural Biography, New York, Oxford University Press, 2016 (Onassis Series in Hellenic Culture), pp. XXII + 276. [ISBN 9780190209063]”, MEDIOEVO GRECO 19 (2019), 457-458 (ISSN 1593-456X).

1. Sacred Journeys: Settings and Frames in the Life of Ioannikios (BHG 935, 936, 937).
   International Congress of Byzantine Studies (ICBS 2026, Vienna).
2. Narratological Mechanisms of (An)Othering in Byzantine Hagiography.
   Conference: Otherness in Byzantium: Imagining, Encountering, Excluding. CEU Vienna and University of Vienna. Vienna. 22–23/05/2026.
3. (Re)writing Saints’ Lives at the Tenth-Century Monastery of Stoudios: The Lives of Nicholas of Stoudios (BHG 1365) and Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278).
   Romanian Society for Byzantine Studies’ 2026 online lecture series. 17/03/2026.*
4. The Studite Lives of Nicholas of Studios (BHG 1365) and Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278): Preliminary Results of a Comparative Study.
   ABF Jour Fix. Vienna Academy of Sciences. 9/03/2026.*
5. The Bible and Byzantine Hagiography: An Intertextual Dialogue.
   Seminar “Literary approaches to Hagiography”, SOL (Centre for Languages and Literature), University of Lund. 9/10/2025*
6. New Life, New Bible? Biblical Intertextuality in Ninth-Century Hagiographical Doublets.
   Reading Through the Lines: Variations and Functions of Intertextuality in Byzantine Literature. University of Cologne. 3–4/07/2025.
7. The Bible in the Two Ninth-Century Lives of St Ioannikios: An Intertextual Reading.
   German Congress of Byzantine Studies. Recklinghausen. 20–22/02/2025.
8. (with L. Sels) The Slavonic Evidence to 10th-c. Studite Hagiography: The Case of Blasius of Amorion.
   Workshop on Byzantino-Slavonic Hagiography in Francis J. Thomson’s Card Index Workshop. KU Leuven. 11/12/2024.*
9. Gendering Sainthood: Biblical Intertextuality and Female Saints in Middle Byzantine Hagiography.
   International conference on the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography. KU Leuven. 11–13/09/2024.
10. The Character-System in Hagiographical Narratives: Monks and Clerics as Minor Characters in Middle Byzantine Hagiography.
    Doctoral Symposium Münster. University of Münster. 16/07/2024.
11. Mappare l’intertestualità biblica nell’agiografia bizantina dei secoli ottavo-decimo: tipi, funzioni e distribuzione dei riferimenti biblici.
    9th Italian Congress of Byzantine Studies Territori e culture. Letture contemporanee del mondo bizantino. University of Palermo. 18–22/06/2024.
12. Metaphorical Characterization: Biblical References in Middle Byzantine Hagiography.
    Novel Saints Reading Group. University of Ghent. 13/02/2024.*
13. Reading the Proems of Middle Byzantine Hagiography through Biblical Intertextuality.
    LECTIO WORKSHOP Networking through Proems: Proemial Strategies for Intellectual Networking in Antiquity. KU Leuven Institute LECTIO. 12/09/2023.
14. Biblical References in Byzantine Hagiographical Discourse. The Life of St John of Psicha (BHG 896) as a Case Study.
    Kolloquium: Neue Forschungen zu Geschichte und Kultur von Byzanz. University of Cologne. 16/06/2023.
15. Biblical References in Byzantine Hagiographical Discourse. The Life of St John of Psicha (BHG 896) as a Case Study.
    22nd Belgian Congress of Byzantine Studies. University of Namur. 9/06/2023.
16. Writers as Painters, Texts as (Colourful) Icons Hagiographical Writing: The Life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278).
    Workshop Realism in Hagiography. Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Cologne. 12–13/01/2023.*
17. A Folkloric Reading of Occult Elements in Byzantine Incubation Literature: The Case of Lond. Add. 37534 Collection.
    Leeds International Medieval Congress. Online due to Covid, University of Leeds. 4–7/07/2022.
18. Food as Medicament in Byzantine Incubation Literature’s Healing Dreams. The Case of MS Lond. Add. 37534.
    IV Colloquia Ceranea International Conference. Waldemar Ceran Research Centre for the History and Culture of the Mediterranean Area and South-East Europe “Ceraneum”, University of Łódź. 12–14/05/2022.
19. Narrative Purposes of Medical Healing Dreams in Byzantine Incubation Literature: The Case of Lond. Add. 37534 (BHG 373b) Collection of Miracles Performed by Cosmas and Damian.
    Fourth Byzantine Colloquium of the University of Buenos Aires. 7–8/04/2022.
20. (with R. Ceulemans and L. Sels) The Legacy of Francis J. Thomson in Leuven: On the Conservation and Publication of his Card Index, and on its Valorization for Slavonic and Greek Studies.
    Workshop Digital Tools and Databases for Slavonic in Development. Department of Slavonic Studies, University of Innsbruck. 16/12/2021.
21. Self-Portrait from the Exile: Nikephoros Basilakes’ Letters.
    5th Parekbolai Symposium Self-Portrait in Byzantine Literature. University of Thessaloniki. 10/12/2021.