Andria Andreou
Project Coordinator
Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (CeMAR), UCY
Andria Andreou is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Medieval Arts and Rituals (CeMAR) of the University of Cyprus. She held various research and administrative positions in EU- and national-funded research projects. She owns a BA in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (University of Cyprus), an MA in Byzantine Studies and the Latin East (University of Cyprus), an MPhil in European Literature and Culture (Cambridge University), an MBA (Cyprus Institute of Marketing) and a PhD in Byzantine Studies and the Latin East (University of Cyprus). Andria has collaborated as a Special Scientist with different institutions, such as the University of Cyprus, Vladimiros Kafkarides Drama School and the American University of Cyprus teaching subjects pertaining to Byzantine, Modern Greek and World literature and theatre, as well as the history of art and architecture. Her research focuses on theatre and theatricality, narratives, as well as on gender, performance, the body, death, desire, dreams, and emotions in Byzantine literature.
Stavroula Constantinou
Project Advisor
Director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (CeMAR), University of Cyprus (UCY)
Professor in Byzantine Studies, Dept. of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Stavroula Constantinou is the founder and director of the Centre for Medieval Arts & Rituals (CeMAR). She is Professor in Byzantine Studies at UCY and member of the European Cultural Parliament. She studied at UCY (1992-1996), the Free University of Berlin (1997-1999, 2000-2003), and the University of Cambridge (1999-2000). During 2010-2011, she was a Humboldt fellow at the Free University of Berlin. Currently she coordinates a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Doctoral Networks project with the title Storytelling as Pharmakon in Premodernity and Beyond: Training the New Generation of Researchers in Health Humanities (StoryPharm) (https://www.ucy.ac.cy/storypharm/). In the past, she coordinated another three major projects: the European twinning project Network for Medieval Arts and Rituals (https://netmar.cy) and two projects funded through the Cyprus Foundation of Research and Innovation, Lactating Breasts: Motherhood and Breastfeeding in Antiquity and Early Byzantium and Storyworlds in Collections: Toward a Theory of the Ancient and Byzantine Tale. Her research focuses on Byzantine Greek narratives (mainly hagiography and romance), gender, ritual, performance, and emotions. Concerning gender in particular, she has published on the following: gendered emotions, female and male sainthood, Byzantine ideologies concerning women, literary portraits of women, and the female body.
Dr Ellada Evangelou
Project Advisor
Research Fellow at CYENS Center of Excellence and Honorary Research Associate at Department of Earth Sciences, UCL
Ellada Evangelou is a Research Fellow at CYENS Center of Excellence and Honorary Research Associate at Department of Earth Sciences, UCL. She is an interdisciplinary scholar and arts practitioner. Ellada has studied in Cyprus and the United States (BA in English, MFA in Dramaturgy, PhD in Theatre Studies / Cultural Studies). She is interested in the relationship between theatre/dramaturgy and identity, and works in the intersection of aRtivism and scholarship in post-colonial, post-conflict communities. She has taught at the University of Cyprus and European University, Cyprus, was a Global Faculty in Residency at Gallatin, NYU, and a Lecturer at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Moreover, she was a 2020-21 Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts, and the Artistic and Executive Director of the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival (2019-22).
Dr Avra Sidiropoulou
Project Advisor
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus
Avra Sidiropoulou is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and Associate Professor at the Open University of Cyprus. She is the author of Directions for Directing. Theatre and Method (Routledge 2019) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (Palgrave Macmillan 2011); also, co-editor of Adapting Greek Tragedy. Contemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts (CUP 2021) and editor of Staging 21st Century Tragedies. Theatre, Politics, and Global Crisis (Routledge 2022). She is the Artistic Director of Persona Theatre Company and a member of the Executive Committee of EASTAP (European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance) and was nominated for the Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award 2020.
Prof. Noah Guynn
Project Advisor
Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis
Noah Guynn is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Davis. He is is a specialist in medieval and early modern literature, theater, and culture. His first book, Allegory and Sexual Ethics in the High Middle Ages, was published in The New Middle Ages Series at Palgrave Macmillan in 2007. His second book, Pure Filth: Ethics, Politics, and Religion in Early French Farce, appeared in 2020 in The Middle Ages Series at the University of Pennsylvania Press. Noah is also coauthor, with David F. Hult (UC Berkeley) and Elizabeth Scala (UT Austin), of Verginia, Lucretia, and the Medieval Livy; coeditor with Marilynn Desmond (Binghamton University), of a special issue of Romanic Review titled Category Crossings: Bruno Latour and the Middle Ages; and coeditor with Zrinka Stahuljak (UCLA), of an edited volume entitled Violence and the Writing of History in the Medieval Francophone World.
Prof. Apostolos Sarris
Project Advisor
Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cyprus
Apostolos Sarris is Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Cyprus. He is also Contracted Lecturer (Graduate Program of Digital Humanities, University of Athens), Adjunct Professor (Cyprus University of Technology), and External Member for Applied Geophysics (Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki). His research interests include GeoInformatics, Applied geophysics and remote sensing in history and archaeology, archaeological prospection, mapping and modelling of archaeological sites, archaeological site assessment and modelling through the application of satellite remote sensing and Geographical Information Systems (GIS), digital archaeological/historical maps, historical atlases, cultural resources management (CRM), and signal processing. Sarris has an impressive record of c. 330 publications on these subjects and is editor/associate editor of various scientific journals. He initiated the establishment of the Laboratory of Geophysical-Satellite Remote Sensing and Archaeo-environment at the Foundation for Research and Technology, Hellas, where he acted as Research Director and Head of Lab (1996-2021). He was vice-president of the European Section of the Archaeological Remote Sensing Consortium, assistant representative in the scientific committee for Peace and Security of NATO, Vice-Chair of the International Society of Archaeological Prospection and President of CAA-GR.
Prof. Luke Sunderland
Project Advisor
Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Durham University)
Luke Sunderland is Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures (Durham University) and Member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. His research interests lie in medieval French, Occitan and Franco-Italian culture, libraries and translations, and the construction of knowledge. He has extensively studied the chansons de geste about rebel barons, as well as their chronicle and prose rewritings through lenses of medieval political theory and thought about vengeance, anthropological work on feud and rebellion, and histories of sovereignty. Luke has also published on cyclical narratives, with a focus on the relationship between ethics and the figure of the hero in the Guillaume d'Orange cycle, the Lancelot and Tristan prose romances, and the Roman de Renart. His research focus includes the materiality of medieval historiography and romance, medieval practices and concepts of translation, cosmopolitanism, textual geographies and hybrid languages, including the French of Italy. His current project focuses on the visual and verbal constructions of knowledge in vernacular encyclopaedias. He is also a theatre practitioner.
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