Professional experience

since 2020 Lecturer in Byzantine studies, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca

since 2019 Researcher in Byzantine philology, Institute for South-East European Studies, Romanian Academy, Bucharest

Education

2018    PhD in Classics, University of Edinburgh, School of History, Classics and Archaeology

2011    MA in Comparative History/Interdisciplinary Medieval Studies, CEU

2009    BA in Theology, “1 Decembrie 1918” University, Faculty of Orthodox Theology, Alba-Iulia

2008    BA in Classics, Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Cluj-Napoca

Fellowships, grants and awards

2022–2024      Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship, University of Cologne

2018–2022      Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship, Newcastle University

2017                Teaching fellowship in Byzantine studies, University of Edinburgh

2016–2017      Junior fellowship in Byzantine studies, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Trustees for Harvard University, Washington D.C.

2014–2015      Alexander S. Onassis Foundation postgraduate research scholarship, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Academic citizenship: conferences and workshops organized

• Byzantine literature
• Hagiography
• Theology
• Epistolography
• Textual criticism
• Greek palaeography and Byzantine manuscript studies
• Digital humanities

Pathways to Heaven: Space and Spiritual Experience in Late Byzantium

Edited volumes / journals

(in print) Holiness on the Move: Mobility and Space in Byzantine Hagiography. London: Routledge, 2023. ISBN: 9781032290799.

Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium and South-Eastern Europe, co-edited with Ivan Biliarsky and Andrei Timotin. Brăila: Istros, 2021. ISBN: 9786066544320.

Tradition and Transformation: Dissent and Consent in the Mediterranean. Proceedings of the 3rd CEMS International Graduate Conference. Kiel: Solivagus Verlag, 2016. ISBN: 9783943025323.

“Spiritual Guidance in Ninth-Century Byzantium.” Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU 21 (2015): 149–205.

Articles

“On metanoia in the twilight of Byzantium. The Homily on repentance by Kallistos I, Patriarch of Constantinople.” Teologie și Viață 5-8 (2021): 202–224 (in Romanian).
https://teologiesiviata.ro/en/metanoia-twilight-byzantium-homily-repentance-kallistos-i-patriarch-constantinople

“Monasticism and kinship in Byzantine hesychastic hagiography.” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 61.3 (2021): 396–422.
https://grbs.library.duke.edu/article/view/16511

“Philotheos Kokkinos’s hypomnēma on Saint Nikodemos the Younger (BHG 2307).” Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa 64.2 (2019): 75–94.
https://doi.org/10.24193/subbto.2019.2.06

“‘Old wine in new bottles’? Gregory Palamas’ Logos on Saint Peter of Athos (BHG 1506).” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40 (2016): 243–263.
https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2016.6

“A late Byzantine πεπαιδευμένος: Maximos Neamonites and his letter collection.” Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014): 197–223.
https://doi.org/10.1553/joeb64s197

Book chapters

“Spiritual and imperial authority in the hagiographic works of Philotheos Kokkinos.” In Religious Rhetoric of Power in Byzantium and South-Eastern Europe, edited by Ivan Biliarsky, Mihail Mitrea, and Andrei Timotin. Brăila: Istros, 2021, 87–112. ISBN: 9786066544320.

“Novel insights on the marginal notes and editorial practice of Philotheos Kokkinos.” In Le livre manuscrit grec: écritures, matériaux, histoire. Actes du IX^e Colloque international de Paléographie grecque, edited by Marie Cronier and Brigitte Mondrain (Travaux et Mémoires 24.1). Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance, 2020 [2021], 317–353.

Forthcoming

“‘Hail, Glory of the Fathers!’ Patristic sources and references in the hagiographical works of Philotheos Kokkinos.” In The Legacy of St. Gregory Palamas: Studies in Late Byzantine Theology and Its Reception, edited by Tikhon Alexander Pino. Turnhout: Brepols.

“Running to the saints with the wings of faith: Mobility and legitimacy in late Byzantine miracle collections.” In Sacred Mobilities in Byzantium and Beyond: People, Objects and Relics, edited by Veronica della Dora, Charalambos Dendrinos, Mark Guscin and David-John Williams. Leiden: Brill.

“Literary representations of the ‘other’ in late Byzantine hagiography.” In Byzantine Heritage in South-Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, edited by Srdjan Pirivatrić and Andrei Timotin. Heidelberg: Herlo Verlag.

Special issue on Byzantine hesychasm, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Theologia Orthodoxa, co-edited with Tikhon Alexander Pino.