ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Cyprus University of Technology
Cyprus
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.