Byzantine Studies

Staff

Director

Margaret Mullett, BA, PhD, FSA Professor of Byzantine Studies read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University. After a postgraduate year in Greece she returned to Birmingham to work with Anthony Bryer on Byzantine letter-writing, resulting in a PhD on the letter-collection of Theophylact of Ochrid. She was appointed to a lectureship in Greek in Queen's University Belfast in 1974, a lectureship in Byzantine Studies in 1983 and senior lectureship in 1992. She has held research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Center for Byzantine Studies) and at Princeton (Program in Hellenic Studies); she held a British Academy Research Readership from 1995 to 1997.

Professor Mullett has written on literacy, patronage, genre, gender and friendship in Byzantine society and has edited a book on the classical tradition, Alexios I Komnenos (with Dion Smythe); and two on eleventh- and twelfth-century monasticism, The Theotokos Evergetis and eleventh-century monasticism, and Work and worship at the Theotokos Evergetis (with Anthony Kirby). Her Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the letters of a Byzantine archbishop appeared in 1997 in the Birmingham Byzantine series published by Variorum. She is director of the British Academy's Evergetis Project (an international and interdisciplinary project on middle Byzantine monasticism) and sat for ten years on the Academy committee for the Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire. She is general editor of Belfast Byzantine Texts and Translations, and on the editorial boards of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Dialogos and Histos. She is currently working on eleventh- and twelfth-century literary networks, consolatio, travel genres, eunuchs, typika and letters. Since 2000 she has been director of the Institute and of the AHRB Centre for Byzantine Cultural History. She is also Director for the QUB Gender Initiative.