Theodora Antonopoulou

is Professor of Byzantine Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Theodora Antonopoulou, born in Athens, Greece in 1968, studied Classics and Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She obtained her M.Phil. in Byzantine Studies (1993) and D.Phil. in Byzantine Literature (1995) from the University of Oxford. Since then, she has held academic positions at the Universities of Cyprus, Patras and Athens and since 2012 she has been Professor of Byzantine Literature at the University of Athens. She was a research fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, the Humboldt Foundation, and the Sorbonne University-Paris IV. She has published extensively on Byzantine literature, including a study on and a critical edition of the Homilies of Emperor Leo VI, with the latter receiving an Excellence award from the Academy of Athens. Research interests: Byzantine homiletics, rhetoric, hymnography, hagiography, grammar, manuscript tradition and textual editing.