The University of Texas at Austin

Faculty Member, Art and Art History

About

I have published on the theoretical aspects of Byzantine art, as well as on theological and hagiographical problems. My book, Subtle Bodies: Representing Angels in Byzantium, (2001) was published by The University of California Press; and my examination of frames and framing in Byzantine art, Sacred Shock: Framing Visual Experience in Byzantium, was published by Penn State University Press in 2004. Current projects include Byzantine animism, medieval Sicily (particularly Syracuse/Siracusa), Christian-Muslim interaction in the Middle East, philhellenism in Renaissance France, eleventh-century manuscripts and monasticism, art of Trebizond, and Byzantium and modernism.

During the 2007-08 academic year, I was blissfully a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. I will be a Whitehead Professor at the American School of Classical at Athens for the 2011-12 academic year.

(photo self-portrait from highest point of Hydra, Greece, November 2011)