Marina Detoraki
Member of the Administrative Board of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) & Professor of Byzantine Philology University of Crete,
After completing my BA in Classics at the University of Athens, I pursued postgraduate studies (MA and PhD) at the University of Paris IV–Sorbonne in Paris, specializing in Medieval Greek language and literature. From 1993 to 2000, I worked in Paris as a research scholar at the renowned Collège de France. I also assisted the Chair of Byzantine Studies in the organization of the Byzantine Studies Congress (2002).
In 2001, I was elected to a teaching position at the University of Crete (Department of Philology). Since then, I have lived and worked in Crete, while also spending extended periods in Paris. In 2017, I was invited as Visiting Professor at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and in 2018 I was a Summer Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (Washington D.C.), as well as a research scholar at the Bodleian Centre for the Study of the Book in Oxford.
My research interests focus on Byzantine hagiography, textual editing, paleography, and textual criticism, and also include Byzantine tales and narratology. My book Le Martyre Grec de saint Aréthas et de ses compagnons (BHG 166), [Monographies 27], Collège de France–CNRS, Paris 2007, received the Academy of Athens Award in 2008.
In 2020, I co-edited the volume Bibliothèques Grecques dans l’empire ottoman, with André Binggeli and Matthieu Cassin, (Bibliologia–Brepols, 2020). Two recent works — the edition of the Encomium and the Miracles of Saints Cyrus and John by Sophronius of Jerusalem (Brepols), and the volume Book Culture, Erudition and Scholarship in Venetian Crete (15th–16th c.) (De Gruyter) — are currently in press.
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