Christina Christoforatou

Assc Professor

Weissman School of Arts and Sciences

Department: English

Areas of expertise: English Literature

Email Address: christina.christoforatou@baruch.cuny.edu

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Christina Christoforatou is Associate Professor of English specializing in medieval literature (Western-European and Byzantine), manuscript studies, and medieval cosmology.  A native Athenian, she completed her secondary education in Greece before moving to New York to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies at the City University of New York.  Her research interests have taken her back to Greece and to various European libraries—national and monastic—where she has studied the manuscripts of the romances she was spoken and written on.

Her scholarship ranges broadly over medieval cultural poetics, Byzantine intellectual history, and iconographic expressions of power.  Her essays examine the institutional and symbolic relation of literature to politics linking the role of the Byzantine literati to the court, the aftermath of political upheaval, and to figurations of power in literary and artistic commissions.  They have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Enarratio (formerly PMAM), Italian Culture, Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures in Confluence and Dialogue, Journal of the History of Sexuality (JHS), and others.  She has co-authored and co-edited, Desire and Eroticism in Medieval Europe, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Sex Without Sex (University of Texas Press, 2010). She is currently working on a monograph that examines the interplay of sexual and political iconography in Byzantine literary texts, and the influence of imperial patronage on literary evolution.

Before joining Baruch College, Professor Christoforatou taught courses in literature and composition at other colleges, where she had the opportunity to introduce Writing Across the Curriculum.  At Baruch, she teaches Writing and Composition courses, Great Works of Literature courses, electives in ancient and medieval poetics, survey courses in Medieval and Renaissance literature, and interdisciplinary seminars.  She has also served as Interim Coordinator for Writing Across the Curriculum and as Assessment Director for the English department’s evaluation of English Majors and Minors.  She currently serves on Baruch College Faculty Senate’s Executive Committee and is participating faculty at Baruch College’s Honors Program, the Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and the Harman Writer-in-Residence Program. 

Outside of CUNY, she serves as Vice President of the Byzantine Studies Association of North America, is affiliated with the Medieval Academy of America, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, the Athens Journal of Humanities and the interdisciplinary journal Diogenes. She has served twice on the programming committee of the International Congress on Medieval Studies and the programming committee of the Byzantine Studies Association of America.

An Interview: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/christinachristoforatou/ 

Education

Ph.D., English, The Graduate School and University Center (CUNY)

MPhil., English, The Graduate School and University Center (CUNY)

M.A., English, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

B.A., English, Brooklyn College (CUNY)

SemesterCourse PrefixCourse NumberCourse Name
Fall 2023ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2023ENG4710Medieval Romance
Fall 2023ENG2800HHon Great Works of Lit I
Spring 2023ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2023ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2022ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2022ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2022ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2022ENG4710Medieval Romance
Spring 2022ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2021ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2021ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2021ENG4110Medieval Literature
Spring 2021ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2021ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2020ENG2800HHon Great Works of Lit I
Fall 2020ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2020ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2020ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2020ENG2800HHon Great Works of Lit I
Spring 2020ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2020ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2019ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2019ENG4110Medieval Literature
Spring 2019ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2019ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2018ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2018ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2018ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2018ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2018ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2018ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2017ENG4710Medieval Romance
Spring 2017ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2017ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2017ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2016ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2016ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2016ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2015ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2015ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2014ENG4100Early English Literature
Fall 2014ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2014ENG4710Medieval Romance
Spring 2014IDC4050HHon Feit Hum Sem I
Spring 2014POL3999HHonors Spec Topic in Poli Sci
Fall 2013ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2013ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2013ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2013ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2012ENG4710Medieval Romance
Fall 2012ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2012ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2012ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2012ENG6002HHonors English II
Spring 2012ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2011ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2011ENG6001HHonors-English I
Spring 2011ENG2800HHon Great Works of Lit I
Spring 2011ENG5000Independent Study English I
Spring 2011ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2010ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2010ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2010ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2010ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2009ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Summer 2009ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2009ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2008ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2008ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2008ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2008ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2008ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2007ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2007ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2007ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2007ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2007ENG4120Chaucer
Spring 2007ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Spring 2006ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2005ENG4120Chaucer
Fall 2005ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2005ENG2100Writing I
Spring 2005ENG4110Medieval Literature
Fall 2004ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2004FRO1000First Year Seminar
Fall 2004ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2004ENG2100Writing I
Summer 2004ENG2850Great Works of Literature II
Spring 2004ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2004ENG2150Writing II
Spring 2004ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2003ENG2100Writing I
Fall 2003ENG2800Great Works of Literature I
Fall 2003ENG2100Writing I

Books

Christoforatou, C. (2024). Eros and Logos: Power and Imagination in Byzantine Romance. In Progress.

Christoforatou, C., & Vaughn, S. N. (2010). Desire and Eroticism in Medieval Europe, Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries: Sex without Sex. Austin, University of Texas Press.

Journal Articles

(2022). Book Review (Invited).  "The Tale of Livistros and Rodamne." A Byzantine Love Romance of the 13th Century.  Trans. and ed. Panagiotis A. Agapitos. (Translated Texts for Byzantinists 10).  Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021. Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies, 97(4). 1147-1148.

Christoforatou, C. (2015). Ontologies of Power in the Sovereign Politics of Pindar and Machiavelli. Italian Culture , 33(2). 87-104.

(2011). Figuring Eros in Byzantine Fiction: Iconographic Transformation and Political Evolution. Medieval Encounters: Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Cultures in Confluence and Dialogue, 17(3). 321-359.

(2010). The Paradox of Sovereignty from Pindar to Byzantium. Exemplaria: A Journal of Theory in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 22(4). 349-370.

Christoforatou, C., & Vaughn, S. N. (2010). Introduction: Desire and Eroticism in Medieval Europe, Eleventh of Fifteenth Centuries: Sex without Sex. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 19(1). 1-16.

(2005). The Iconography of Eros and the Politics of Desire in Komnenian Byzantium. Enarratio, 12(1). 71-109.

Conference Proceedings

Christoforatou, C. (2023). Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Theories of Consciousness from Aristotle to Bachelard by Way of Byzantium.. Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). Exalting Eros through Logos: Performing Passion and Imperial Power in Byzantine Fiction.. Proceedings of the Forty-Eighth Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2014). Inventive Logos, Coercive Eros: The Poetics of Passion in Eustathios Makrembolites' "Hysmine and Hysminias.". Proceedings of the Fortieth Byzantine Studies Conference (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2014). In Defense of Reverie: Cultural Fantasy and the Poetics of Space in "Belthandros and Chrysantza," "Libistros and Rodamne" and "Kallimachos and Chysorrhoe.". Romance Between East and West: New Approaches to Medieval Greek Fiction.

Media Contributions

Christoforatou, C. (2023). Manuscripts, Cultures, and Ideas on the Move: Reflections on the Sinai Palimpsests Project and the Contents of a Manuscript that Travelled from Constantinople to Sinai..

https://events.cuny.edu/cec/manuscripts-cultures-and-ideas-on-the-move-reflections-on-the-sinai-palimpsests-project-and-the-contents-of-a-manuscript-that-traveled-from-constantinople-to-sinai/

https://historyprogram.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/1165/files/2023/04/HISTORY-LECTURE-SERIES-SPRING-2023-CHRISTOFORATOU-FLYER.pdf

Christoforatou, C. (2017). Interview for the Great Works of Literature Program and its New Blog, Join the Conversation: Great Works of Literature Faculty Interview..

Christoforatou, C. (2011). Academic Poetry Blog, "Poem of the Month." | C. P. Cavafy, "27 June 1906. 2 p.m.":  Personhood, Citizenship and Statehood.

Presentations

Christoforatou, C. (2024, October 3). Seeing in the Mind's Eye: Theories of Consciousness from Aristotle to Bachelard by Way of Byzantium. 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.. Vancouver, BC. Simon Fraser University: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2024, October 3). Chair and moderator of a conference panel: "Justice and Morality". 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Vancouver, Simon Fraser University: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2024, September 3). Committee-Service and Leadership Opportunities . WSAS All-Pods Seminar: The Nuts and Bolts of CUNY Life. New York: Baruch College (WSAS).

Christoforatou, C. (2024, May 3). Panel Chair and Discussant. Medieval Aesthetics and Comparative Poetics.. Annual Inter-University Doctoral Consortium on Medieval Studies Conference.. New York: CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University, and Stony Brook University.

Christoforatou, C. (2024, April 3). Manuscripts, Cultures, and Ideas on the Move: Reflections on the Sinai Palimpsests Project and the Contents of a Manuscript that Travelled from Constantinople to Sinai.. CUNY Graduate Center and The College of Staten Island. History Lecture Series 2023.. : CUNY Graduate Center PhD Program in History & The College of Staten Island, Department of History.

Christoforatou, C. (2024, October 3). "How do Byzantinists Teach?" Round-table discussion sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. 48th Byzantine Studies Conference,. Los Angeles, UCLA: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2024, October 3). Exalting Eros through Logos: Performing Passion and Imperial Power in Byzantine Fiction. 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference,. Los Angeles, UCLA: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2016, October 8). Defining Cults in Byzantium. Chair. 42nd Byzantine Studies Conference. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY: Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA).

Christoforatou, C. (2014, March 20). Capital/Punishment and the Ethos of Sovereignty in the Political Writings of Pindar and Machiavelli. The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. NYU, New York: American Comparative Literature Association.

Christoforatou, C. (2014, April 28). Political Literature from the Athenian Republic to the Global State.. Feit Interdisciplinary Conference. New York, NY: Baruch College, CUNY.

Christoforatou, C. (2014, November 7). Inventive Logos, Coercive Eros: The Poetics of Passion in Eustathios Makrembolites' "Hysmine and Hysminias". 40th Byzantine Studies Conference. Vancouver: Byzantine Studies Association of North America.

Christoforatou, C. (2014, November 27). In Defense of Reverie: Cultural Fantasy and the Poetics of Space in "Belthandros and Chrysantza," "Libistros and Rodamne," and "Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoe". Romance Between East and West: International Conference in Medieval Greek Fiction. Athens, Greece: Swedish Institute & Riksbanken Jubeliemsfond.

Christoforatou, C. (2012, April 30). Sovereignty Redifined: Citizenship, Subjectivity, and Freedom. The Center for the Humanities, CUNY, 2011-2012 Public Lectures. New York, NY: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and The Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY.

Christoforatou, C. (2012, March 30). The Coercive Reign of Eros and the Bounds of Sovereign Polity in Byzantine Fiction. The American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference. Providence, RI, Brown University: American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA).

Christoforatou, C. (2011, November 18). Desire and Sexuality in Later Byzantine Fiction. 4th Annual Faculty Roundtable Discussion in Medieval Studies. New York, NY: Medieval Studies Program, Graduate Center, CUNY.

Christoforatou, C. (2009, May 8). Patrons and Writers and Odds: The Politics of Literary Creation in Byzantium and Beyond. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies.. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI and the Medieval Association of the Midwest

Christoforatou, C. (2009, May 8). Sovereign Nomos and the Politics of Imperial Legitimation in Byzantine Narrative Fiction. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies.. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C., & Freedman, K. (2008, November 6). Abstraction and Composition: the Challenges (and Rewards) of Interdisciplinary Teaching. Learning Communities Open Forum at Baruch College. : Dean's Office of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College.

Christoforatou, C. (2008, May 10). Bios, Physis, and the Paradox of Sovereignty.. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2007, May 31). 'Fear God. Honour the Emperor': The Politics of Desire in Twelfth-Century Byzantium, at The Use and Abuse of Propaganda in the Middle Ages. 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University.. Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2007, May 31). Love and Its Manifestations in the High Middle Ages.. 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University and Medieval Association of the Midwest, Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2005, May 31). Rhetoric in Byzantine Culture: New Approaches. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies at West Michigan University. Western Michigan University and Texas Medieval Association. Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2005, May 31). The Iconography of Eros and the Topography of Desire in Byzantine Narrative Fiction | Concepts of Space and Location in Medieval Literature: A Cross-Cultural Perspective: Western Christianity, Byzantium, and Islam. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Studies Certificate Program, CUNY.

Christoforatou, C. (2004, May 31). Greco-Byzantine Utopias: From Classical Gardens of Desire to Allegorical Paradisoi . 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies at West Michigan University. Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2003, April 25). King Eros in the Byzantine Garden.". Showcase of Doctoral Work in Medieval Studies. New York City Doctoral Consortium in Medieval Studies.. New York, NY: New York University.

Christoforatou, C. (2003, May 31). The Pleasure Garden and the Walled City: Allegorical Manifestations of Desire in the Byzantine Romances at Medieval Gardens of Desire. 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies. Western Michigan University and Medieval Romance Society. Kalamazoo, MI

Christoforatou, C. (2003, December 31). Marvelous and Sublime Manifestations in the Narratives of the Byzantine Romances of the Komnenian Period. Andrew W. Mellon Symposium. : Department of Comparative Literature. University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Christoforatou, C. (2002, April 12). Communicating Across the Curriculum: Evaluating Student-Writing in the Disciplines. Seminar on Writing and Communication. New York City College of Technology

Christoforatou, C. (2002, April 12). Writing Across the Curriculum: Writing in the Disciplines. Guest presentation in a senior seminar for students in the chemical technology field on writing and communiction. Brooklyn, New York: New York City College of Technology (CUNY).

Christoforatou, C. (2000, March 22). Reframing 'Jekyll and Hyde': The Strange Voices and the Sublime in the Case of Gothic Fiction. "British Gothic Novels Roundtable". Brooklyn, New York: New York City College of Technology (CUNY).

Christoforatou, C. (2000, October 12). Understanding Audience: Beyond 'Just for Class' Writing Assignments. 65th Annual Convention of the Association for Business Communication. Atlanta, Georgia

Other Scholarly Works

Christoforatou, C. (2023). Organizer and Chair of a conference panel sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture |"Digital Humanities Tools for Medievalists". 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2023). Organizer and Chair of a conference panel sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture: "Byzantinists Working in Diverse Fields: Round-Table Discussion". 49th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). Panel Organizer and Chair.  "What Do Byzantinists Write?" Round-table discussion sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture.. 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). Panel Chair and Moderator. "The Art of Rhetoric.". 57th International Congress on Medieval Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). "Giving Voice (and Movement) to Words: Byzantine Literature as Performance."  Panel organizer. 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). Panel Organizer.  "How do Byzantinists Teach?" Round-table discussion sponsored by the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture. 48th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference.

Christoforatou, C. (2022). Interview and Conversation with Author Ersi Sotiropoulos, Harman Writer-in Residence 2022.

https://theticker.org/7491/arts/harman-writer-in-residence-ersi-sotiropoulos-talks-writing-inspiration-and-journey-at-event/

Christoforatou, C. (2011). C. P. Cavafy, "27 June 1906, 2 p.m.": Personhood, Citizenship and Statehood. Poem of the Month Blog: Analysis and Critical Discussion of C. P. Cavafy's Poetry.

https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/poemofthemonth/2011/10/19/27-june-1906-2pm-by-cp-cavafy/
TitleFunding Agency SponsorStart DateEnd DateAwarded DateTotal FundingStatus
Ontologies of Power and the Myth of Autonomy in the Sovereign Politics of Pindar and MachiavelliPSC-CUNY 4507/01/201406/30/201504/15/20144248Completed
Nomos, Thanatos, and the Politics of Sovereign Legitimation in Pindar and MachiavelliPSC-CUNY 4207/01/201106/30/201204/15/20113990Completed
Mirabile Dictu: Imaginative Travel-Quests in Ancient Greek Narrative FictionPSC-CUNY 4107/01/201006/30/20113990Completed
Images of the Self and of the World in Byzantine Travel NarrativePSC-CUNY 4007/01/200906/30/20103325Completed
Bios, Polis, and the Paradox of Sovereignty in Komnenian ByzantiumPSC-CUNY 3907/01/200812/31/20092466Completed
'Fear God. Honour the Emperor': The Politics of Desire in 12th Century ByzantiumPSC-CUNY 3807/01/200706/30/20083990Completed
Honor / AwardOrganization SponsorDate ReceivedDescription
PSC-CUNY-45 Research AwardCity University of Nee York and PSC-CUNY2014
Andrew Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities (2011-2012)Andrew Mellon Foundation and the Center for the Humanities, Graduate Center, CUNY2011
PSC-CUNY-42 Research AwardCity University of New York and PSC-CUNY2011
PSC-CUNY-41 Research AwardCity University of New York and PSC-CUNY2010
PSC-CUNY-40 Research AwardCity University of New York and PSC-CUNY2009
PSC-CUNY-39 Research AwardCity University of New York2007
PSC-CUNY-38 Research AwardCity University of New York and PSC-CUNY2006
The Alfred Gordon Prize for Distinguished Dissertation in Medieval Studies: Visualizing Medieval Otherworlds in Greco-Byzantine RomancesThe Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)2004
Writing Across the Curriculum Fellowship. Completed at New York City College of Technology (CUNY)The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)2002
Medieval Studies CertificateThe Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY)2001Awarded upon completion of the requirements in the Medieval Studies Program in conjunction with the Ph.D Program in English.
CUNY Graduate Fellowship (awarded by the Counseling Assistantship Program) 1996-1999Brooklyn College (CUNY)1999Completed at New York City College of Technology (CUNY), Academic Advisement Center
Appreciation Award in Academic Advisement (for Outstanding Achievement in the Success of the Fall 1996 and Spring 1997 Advisement and Registration)1997
International Student Scholarship: awarded to an undergraduate student in recognition for outstanding scholarship (1994-1995)Brooklyn College (CUNY)1995

College

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
Faculty Senate Delegate Category IIISenatorPresent
Macaulay Honors College Admissions CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
CUNY Research Foundation | PSC-CUNY Awards in Comparative Literature and Modern LanguagesCommittee MemberPresent
English DepartmentFaculty MentorPresent
WSAS Executive CommitteeCommittee ChairPresent
CUNY Research Foundation | PSC-CUNY Awards Interdisciplinary StudiesCommittee MemberPresent
Faculty Senate Executive CommitteeCommittee MemberPresent
Baruch College Student Technology Fee Committee (elected by the Senate)Committee MemberPresent
Faculty Senate Delegate Category IISenatorPresent
Baruch College Committee on Educational PolicyCommittee MemberPresent
Baruch College Committee on Planning and FinanceCommittee MemberPresent
English Department Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member7/3/2024
English Department Executive CommitteeCommittee Member5/31/2024
English Department Ad-Hoc Committee on AssessmentCommittee Member5/31/2024
WSAS Executive CommitteeCommittee Member5/31/2024
English Department Search Committee for Postcolonial and Global Anglophone Literature PositionCommittee Member8/28/2023
Research and Creative Inquiry Expo 2023Committee Member6/5/2023
Personnel and Budget Committee (Independent Units) | WSAS DelegateCommittee Member5/30/2023
WSAS Committee on Undergraduate Academic Standing Committee Member12/31/2022
CUNY Research Foundation | PSC CUNY Awards in EnglishCommittee Member12/21/2022
WSAS Committee on Undergraduate Academic StandingCommittee Member5/31/2022
English Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Department BylawsCommittee Member12/31/2021
English Department Committee on CommitteesCommittee Member12/31/2021
Baruch College Student Technology Fee CommitteeCommittee Member12/31/2021
Ad-Hoc Committee on Reviewing and Revising the Medieval and Renaissance Literature Courses in the Department of EnglishCommittee Chair12/18/2021
English Department Ad-Hoc Committee on Curriculum RedesignCommittee Member5/29/2021
English Department Ad Hoc Committee on Teaching Evaluation InstrumentCommittee Member12/31/2019
English Department Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member12/31/2019
English Department Curriculum CommitteeCommittee Member5/29/2019
WSAS Committee on AssessmentCommittee Member12/31/2018
WSAS English Program AssessmentAssessment Coordinator (English)12/31/2018
WSAS English Department Assessment CoordinatorCommittee Chair12/31/2018
Search Committee, Translation Studies and TranslinguismCommittee Member12/31/2018
English Department Ad Hoc Committee on Student-Initiated Grade ChangeCommittee Chair12/31/2017
English Department Major/Minor AssessmentDirector5/31/2017
English Department Major/Minor Assessment CommitteeCommittee Chair5/29/2017
English Department Executive CommitteeCommittee Member5/29/2016
Faculty Mentor to Faculty in the Department of Natural SciencesFaculty Mentor12/31/2015
Search Committee, Children and Young Adult LiteratureCommittee Chair12/31/2014
Composition CommitteeCommittee Member12/31/2014
Composition CommitteeCommittee Member11/15/2014
Macaulay Honors College Admissions CommitteeCommittee Member1/31/2014
Committee on Research, Library, and TechnologyCommittee Chair12/31/2013
Search Committee for Writing Director PositionCommittee Chair12/31/2013
Committe on Research, Library, and ResearchCommittee Member12/31/2012
Writing Across the Curriculum CoordinatorCoordinator12/31/2012
Senior Thesis Advisor for the Baruch College Honors ProgramFaculty Advisor12/31/2012
College-Wide Writing Coordinator, Writing Across the CurriculumCoordinator12/31/2012
Senior Thesis Reader: Baruch College HonorsCommittee Member5/31/2012
Senior Thesis Mentor: Baruch College Department of EnglishFaculty Mentor5/31/2012
Writing Across the CurriculumWSAS Coordinator5/31/2012
Senior Thesis Reader for the Baruch College HonorsCommittee Member12/31/2011
Senior Thesis Reader: Baruch College Honors12/31/2011
Learning Communities: Freshman Year InitiativeInstructor and Mentor12/31/2011
Learning Communities Freshman Year Initiative: Critical Reading: Analysis and InferenceCommittee Member12/24/2011
Learning Communities: Freshman Year InitiativeFaculty Mentor12/17/2011
Faculty Senate Delegate Category IIEnglish Department Delegate12/31/2010
WSAS Delegate of the Weissman School to the School of Public AffairsWSAS Delegate8/31/2010
Senior Thesis Reader: Baruch College HonorsCommittee Member5/31/2010
English DepartmentSecretary12/17/2009
Subcommittee on the Description and Articulation of Learning Goals for ENG 2100 and 2150Committee Member8/31/2009
Curriculum Review and Course DevelopmentCommittee Member8/31/2008
"Writing and Literature in the Disciplines: Faculty Seminar-Series"Developer and Facilitator12/31/2007
Writing and Literature in the Disciplines: Faculty Seminar SeriesCommittee Chair12/16/2007
Faculty Seminar Series on Writing and Literature in DisciplinesCommittee Chair8/31/2007
2006 Freshman Text Subcommittee, Department of EnglishCommittee Member12/31/2006
Composition CommitteeCommittee Member12/17/2006
2005-2006 Baruch Academy InitiativeInstructor and Advisor5/31/2006
Freshman Text CommitteeCommittee Member5/28/2006
Committee on Curriculum Review and Course DevelopmentCommittee Member12/31/2005
2004 First Year Colloquia: Freshman Orientation Seminar (FRO 1000)Instructor and Mentor12/31/2004
Freshman Seminar | First Year ColloquiaCommittee Chair12/17/2004

University

Committee NamePosition RoleStart DateEnd Date
CUNY Research Foundation, PSC-CUNY Awards in Comparative LiteratureGrant Proposal Reviewer, Internal1/1/2016Present
CUNY Research Foundation, PSC-CUNY Awards in Interdisciplinary StudiesGrant Proposal Reviewer, Internal1/1/2018Present
CUNY Research Foundation, PSC-CUNY Awards in EnglishGrant Proposal Reviewer, Internal1/1/201712/31/2021
Macaulay Honors College Admissions CommitteeCommittee Member12/1/20195/31/2021
Writing Across the CurriculumProgram Coordinator1/1/20111/31/2012
Writing Across the Curriculum Faculty Development SeminarsCommittee Chair9/1/20065/1/2007

Professional

OrganizationPosition RoleOrganization StateOrganization CountryStart DateEnd DateAudience
Diogenes: Open-Access and Peer-Reviewed Online Journal at the Center for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies, University of BirminghamReviewer, Journal Article1/1/2017Present
PSC-CUNY | Research Foundation, CUNYReviewer, Grant Proposal1/1/2016PresentLocal
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Arts and Culture | Doctoral Grants Reviewer, Grant Proposal1/1/2015PresentInternational
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Arts and Culture | Book Subvention and Monograph GrantsReviewer, Book1/1/2015PresentInternational
Athens Journal of PhilologyReviewer, Journal Article1/1/2015PresentInternational
Athens Journal of Humanities and ArtsEditorial Board Member 9/19/2018PresentInternational
The Medieval Academy of America | Speculum: A Journal of Medieval StudiesReviewer, Journal Article1/1/2022PresentInternational
50th Byzantine Studies Conference Planning Committee 2024Committee Member1/11/2023PresentNational
BSANA Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Committee Member9/21/202112/25/2025International
BSANA Byzantinists of Color FundFund Director1/2/202312/23/2025International
The Mary Jaharis Fund & BSANA Early Career Faculty ProgrammingWorkshop Organizer9/1/202112/21/2025International
BSANA Graduate Student and Early Career ProgrammingChairperson1/1/202212/15/2025International
Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA)Board Member9/1/202112/15/2025International
50th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference | Hosted by CUNY Graduate Center, Columbia University and Fordham UniversityPlanning Committee Member 9/5/202312/17/2024International
Byzantine Studies Association of North America (BSANA)Vice President9/1/202212/15/2024International
Byzantine Studies Association of North AmericaReviewer, Grant Proposal1/1/202012/31/2022International
46th and 47th Byzantine Studies Association of North AmericaReviewer, Conference Paper1/1/202012/31/2022International
46th and 47th Byzantine Studies Conference Graduate Student Prize, 2020-2022Reviewer, Grant Proposal1/1/202012/31/2022International
56th and 57th International Congress on Medieval StudiesReviewer, Conference Proceedings1/1/202012/31/2022International
46th and 47th Byzantine Studies ConferenceProgram Committee Member1/1/202012/24/2022International
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