Kotzabassi Sofia
Sofia Kotzabassi studied Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (B.A. 1983, M.A. 1985), Classics and Byzantine Philology at the Freie Universität Berlin (Dr. Phil. 1988). In October 1989 she joined the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She taught as Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin (1994-1995). She has received graduate and postdoctoral from the National Fellowship Foundation, the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (1986-1988), the Graduierte Kolleg “Textüberlieferung”-University of Hamburg (1991). She was research fellow at Princeton University (Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow), at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks Research Center and at Research Center for Anatolian Civilization (Koç University, Istanbul). She is member of the Editorial Board of e-journal Parekbolai and Hellenika, as well as member of the Comité International de Paléographie Grecque.
Her research focuses on byzantine rhetoric, epistolography, historiography, hagiology, prosopography, philosophy (esp. the commentators of Aristotle), Greek palaeography and codicology. She has authored the books: 1. Die handschriftliche Überlieferung der rhetorischen und hagiographischen Werke des Gregor von Zypern (Serta Graeca. Beiträge zur Erforschung griechischer Texte, 6). Wiesbaden 1998, 2. Byzantinische Kommentatoren der aristotelischen Topik. Johannes Italos und Leon Magentinos (Εταιρεία Βυζαντινών Ερευνών, 17). Θεσσαλονίκη 1999, 3. Βυζαντινά χειρόγραφα από τα μοναστήρια της Μικράς Ασίας. Aθήνα 2004, 4. Das hagiographische Dossier der heiligen Theodosia von Konstantinopel. Einleitung-Edition-Kommentar (Byzantinisches Archiv, 21). Berlin – New York 2009, 5. Greek Manuscripts in Princeton. A Descriptive Catalogue (in collaboration with Nancy Sevcenko and Don Skemer), Princeton, Program in Hellenic Studies and Department of Art History 2010, 6. Ducas, Historia (Corpus Fontium Historiae Byzantinae, Series Berolinensis). Boston-Berlin 2023 (forthcoming). She has edited seven collective volumes and has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals, Companions and collective volumes.