Advisory Board

Kristin B. Aavitsland is Professor of Medieval Studies at MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Oslo, and, since May 2021, she has been Director of Istituto di Norvegia (The Norwegian Institute) in Rome. Trained as an art historian and medievalist, she received her PhD from the University of Oslo in 2002, having previously held research fellowships in Rome (Istituto di Norvegia) and London (Warburg Institute).

Andrew Lynch is Emeritus Professor of English and Literary Studies at The University of Western Australia, and an Honorary Senior Research Fellow there. He has published widely on medieval literature and its modern afterlives. His recent publications include two co-edited collections: The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe, 1100-1700 (2019) and A Cultural History of Emotions, 6 vols, (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is an editor of the journal Emotions: History, Culture, Society (Brill).

Claudia Rapp took up her current position as Professor of Byzantine Studies at the University of Vienna in 2011, after 17 years at the University of California, Los Angeles, where for ten years she spearheaded the Multi-Campus Research Group in Late Antiquity. She obtained her BA from the Free University Berlin and her Ph.D. from Oxford University. In Vienna, she is the Director of the Division of Byzantine Research within the Institute for Medieval Research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Scholarly Director of the Sinai Palimpsests Project.