Late Ancient Christianity (Augustine, Niceta of Remesiana, Ambrose, Paulinus of Nola)
Twelfth Century Latin West (especially Early Cistercians)
Christian Mystical Tradition (Augustine, Bernard of Clairvaux, William of St Thierry)
Medieval Reception of Early Christian Authors
Textual Representations of Material Forms: Spaces, Bodies, Images and Sounds
Academic Appointments
7/2019 – Present: Postdoc within the CRC 1136, Subproject A 04 “Die Aneignungung antiken Wissens durch Christen – Bilddidaxe zwischen Spätantike und frühen Mittelalter, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
2016–2018: Postdoc at the Forum for Interdisciplinary Religious Studies (FIRSt), Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
2010–2013: Postdoc, Department of Culture and Society, University of Aarhus, Denmark
2008–2009: Visiting Researcher, Faculty of Theology, Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany
2007: Visiting Researcher Faculty of Theology, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Education
2005–2010: Ph.D., Classics, University of St Andrews, UK
2000–2001: M.A., Classics and Theology, University of Durham, UK
1996–2000: B.A., Classics, West University of Timisoara, Romania
1998–1999: M.A., French Studies, West University of Timisoara, Romania
1994–1998: B.A., French-Romanian, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Grants and Fellowships
2016: Fritz Thyssen Conference Grant, Episcopal Networks in Late Antiquity: Connection and Communication across Boundaries, Göttingen 28-30, September 2016 – 10,000 Euros
2013–2016: Dorothea Schlözer Fellowship, Georg August University, Göttingen, Germany
2010–2013: Velux Grant, Department of Culture and Society, Aarhus, Denmark
2008-2009: Baden-Württemberg Fellowship, Faculty of Theology, Albert-Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany
2007: Research Fellowship, Faculty of Theology, Aarhus University, Denmark
2005–2008: Leverhulme Research Grant, School of Classics, University of St Andrews, UK
2000–2001: Society of Sacred Mission Scholarship, Departments of Classics and Theology, Durham University, UK
1997: Tempus Scholarship, Department of Romance Languages, State University of Antwerp, Belgium
