Biography

Since 2013, Assistant Professor in Classical Greek at DLCV-FFLCH/Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. In 2012-3, she held a Fapesp post-doctoral fellowship at DLCV-FFLCH/USP, after benefitting from a British Academy funded research stay at the British School at Rome in 2012, as member of a KCL project on iconography. In 2015/6, she was awarded a research scholarship from Fondation Hardt (Switzerland), a Visiting Scholarship at St Edmunds (Cambridge, UK) and a Junior Fellowship at the Max-Weber Kolleg (Erfurt, Germany). As a Gates scholar, she received a Ph.D. in Divinity from the University of Cambridge (2007-2012). She also holds a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Statistics, USP, Brazil (2003-2007), a B.A. in Classical Greek (2006) and a B.Sc. in Molecular Sciences (2003), both also from USP. Her research focuses on the Roman East in the fifth century A.D., and on the transmission of Greek, Syriac, Ge'ez and Latin sources. Her current projects concern Christological polemical works, synodical and senatorial proceedings, acclamations and the construction of imperial authority. Other research interests are imperial and Byzantine hexametric poetry and education, and the medieval reception of classical and late-antique philosophy and theology in Greek, Syriac, Arab and Latin.