Vasileios Marinis Yale Institute of Sacred Music & Divinity School

409 Prospect St. New Haven, CT 0651

vasileios.marinis@yale.edu

EDUCATION

2004 Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2003 M.A.R., Yale University, Divinity School and the Institute of Sacred Music (magna cum laude) 1998 D.E.A., Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Institut d’art et d’archéologie 1997 B.A., University of Athens, Department of Art History and Archaeology

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

20014- Associate Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, Institute of Sacred Music & Divinity School, Yale University 2009-14 Assistant Professor of Christian Art and Architecture, Institute of Sacred Music & Divinity School, Yale University 2010- Fellow, Berkeley College 2007-9 Kallinikeion Assistant Professor of Byzantine Art, Department of Art, Queens College, CUNY 2006-7 Visiting Professor, Department of Art, Queens College, CUNY 1999 Lecturer, School of Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Death and the Afterlife in Byzantium: The Fate of the Soul in Theology, Liturgy, and Art (forthcoming from Cam-bridge University Press in 2016).

Architecture and Liturgy in the Churches of Constantinople (Ninth to Fifteenth Centuries), (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Byzantium: Essays in Honor of Angela Constantinides Hero [= Journal of Modern Hellenism 27-28 (2009-2010)], editor

Peer-reviewed publications “Wearing the Bible: An Early Christian Tunic With New Testament Scenes,” Journal of Coptic Studies 9 (2007), 95–109.

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“Tombs and Burials in the Monastery tou Libos in Constantinople,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 63 (2009), 147–166.

“Some Notes on the Functional Approach in the Study of Byzantine Architecture: the Case of Constan-tinople,” in A. McGehee, R. Bork, and W.W. Clark eds., New Approaches to Medieval Architecture (Burlington: Ashgate, 2011), 21–33.

“‘He Who Is at the Point of Death’: The Fate of the Soul in Byzantine Art and Liturgy,” Gesta 54 (2015), 59–84.

“The Original Form of the Theotokos tou Libos Reconsidered,” in P. Petrides et al, eds., ΔΑΣΚΑΛΑ. Απόδοση τιμής στην καθηγήτρια Μαίρη Παναγιωτίδη-Κεσίσογλου (Athens: Saripoleio, 2015), 267–303.

(with Robert Ousterhout) “‘Grant us to share a place and lot with them’: Relics and the Byzantine Church Building (9th-15th centuries)” in C. Hahn and H. Klein, eds. Saints and Sacred Matter: The Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond (Washington, D.C. and Cambridge, Mass: Dumbarton Oaks and Harvard University Press, 2015), 153–172.

“The Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria: A symbolic understanding of the Byzantine church building,” Byzantinische Zeitschrift 108:2 (2015), 753–770.

Forthcoming

“The vision of Last Judgment in the vita of Saint Niphon (BHG 1371z),” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 71 (2017).

Book chapters “Μερικές παρατηρήσεις για την αρχιτεκτονική και λειτουργία στη Μονή του Λιβός στην Κωνσταντινούπολη,” in E. Hadjitryphonos and F. Karagianni, eds., Βυζαντινή αρχιτεκτονική και λατρευτική πράξη, (Thessaloniki, 2006), 57-62.

“The vita of St. Anna/Euphemianos, a Ninth-Century Transvestite Nun” in Idem, ed., Byzantium: Essays in Honor of Angela Constantinides Hero [= Journal of Modern Hellenism 27-28 (2009-2010)], 53-69.

“Defining Liturgical Space in Byzantium,” in P. Stephenson, ed., The Byzantine World, (London and New York: Routledge, 2010), 284-302.

“The Mosaics of Theotokos Pammakaristos (Fethiye Camii) in Istanbul,” in G. Sözen, ed., Mosaics of Anato-lia (Istanbul: HSBC, 2011), 321-332.

“Structure, Agency, Ritual, and the Byzantine Church,” in B. Wescoat and R. Ousterhout, eds., The Architec-ture of the Sacred (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 338-364.

(with Kostis Kourelis) “An Immigrant Liturgy: Greek Orthodox Worship and Architecture in America,” in T. Berger, ed., Liturgy in Migration (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press 2012), 155-178.

“Piety, Barbarism, and the Senses in Byzantium,” in S. Promey, ed., Sensational Religion (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014), 321-340.

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Forthcoming

“The Byzantine Church Beyond the Liturgy,” in R. Etlin et al., eds., Cambridge World History of Religious Architecture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

“Liturgical Rolls” in V. Tsamakda, ed., Byzantine Illuminated Manuscripts (Leiden: Brill, 2017).

Entries in Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010); Byzantium Faith and Power 1261-1557, ed. H.C. Evans (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2004); Trésors du Monastère Sainte-Catherine Mont Sinaï Égypte (Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2004).

Reviews A. Louth and A. Casiday, eds., Byzantine Orthodoxies: Papers from the Thirty-sixth Spring Symposium of Byzan-tine Studies, University of Durham, 23–25 March 2002 (Aldershot, 2006). The Medieval Review

C.L. Striker and Y. Dogan Kuban, Kalenderhane in Istanbul: The Excavations. (Mainz am Rhein, 2007). Specu-lum 87:1 (2012), 283-284.

M. J. Johnson, R. G. Ousterhout, and A. Papalexandrou, eds, Approaches to Byzantine Architecture and Its Decoration. Studies in Honor of Slobodan Ćurčić (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2012). The Medieval Review.

S. Ćurčić, Architecture in the Balkans: From Diocletian to Süleyman the Magnificent (New Haven and London, 2012). Speculum 87:4 (1178-1179).

Work in progress

Joseph Bryennios and Eschatological Theology in Late Byzantium (article)

The Monastery of Hosios Loukas and its Dependencies: A Network of Foundations in Medieval Byzantium (book project, with Antonis Georgiou)

The Life of Nikon of Constantiane: Critical Edition, Translation, Commentary (book project, with Albrecht Berger and Sergey Ivanov)

AWARDS AND HONORS (selected)

2015-2017 Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 2015 William M. Calder III Fellowship, American Friends of the A. von Humboldt Foundation 2014-5 Dumbarton Oaks, Fellowship in Byzantine Studies 2014-5 MacMillan Center Research Fellow in International and Area Studies, Yale University 2013 The Frederick W. Hilles Publication Fund Grant, Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University 2011-12 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. 2005 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, S.C. and P.C. Coleman Senior Fellowship 2004-5 Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship 2003-4 Dumbarton Oaks, Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies 2003 Yale University, The Aidan Kavanaugh Prize for Outstanding Scholarship 2002-3 Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, S. Gregory Taylor Scholarship

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1998-2000 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture, Alan K. and Leonarda F. Laing Fellowship

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS (selected)

“Death and the Fate of the Soul in Byzantium: Theologies, Liturgies, Images,” Johannes Gutenberg Uni-versität Mainz, June 5, 2015.

“The Historia Ekklesiastike kai Mystike Theoria: A symbolic understanding of the Byzantine church build-ing,” Stanford University, November 10, 2014; Columbia University, March 14, 2014.

“Architecture and Liturgy in the Byzantine ‘Dark Ages?’” Transforming Sacred Spaces: New Approaches to Byzantine Ecclesiastical Architecture from the Transitional Period, University of Munich, May 14-16, 2014

“‘Grant us to share a place and lot with them’: The Architectural Setting of Relics (9th–14th centuries),” Saints and Sacred Matter: the Cult of Relics in Byzantium and Beyond, Spring Symposium, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., April 29-May 1, 2011 (with Robert Ousterhout).

“ The Immigrant Liturgy: Greek Orthodox Worship and Architecture in America,” Liturgy in Migration, Yale University, February 24-27, 2011 (with Kostis Kourelis).

“The Original Form of the Theotokos tou Libos Reconsidered,” 43rd Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Uni-versity of Birmingham, March 26-29, 2009.

“On Architecture and Liturgy in the Medieval Churches of Constantinople,” Dumbarton Oaks, Washing-ton, D.C., March 16, 2010

“Some Notes on the Liturgical Use of Narthexes in the Middle and Late Byzantine Periods.” Paper deliv-ered at the Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar, University of Oxford, February 19, 2009

“Holy images or ‘sacred’ art? Perceptions of icons in contemporary society,” Distinguished lecture at St. Vladimir’s Seminary Education Day, October 4, 2008

“Old Wine in New Bottles: The Interrelation of Ritual and Architecture in Byzantium.” Paper delivered at the 43rd International Congress of Medieval Studies, May 8-11, 2008, Western Michigan University (Ses-sion sponsored by AVISTA)

“Tombs and burials in Middle and Late Byzantine Constantinople.” Paper delivered at the University of Pennsylvania, Department of the History of Art, February 21, 2008

Organizer: The First Kallinikeion Conference of New York Byzantinists, The Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Queens College, CUNY, April 21, 2007

“From the Monastery tou Libos to Fenari Isa Camii: The Flexibility of a lieu de mémoire.” Paper delivered at “Byzantine Studies: Back to the Future,” Bates College, September 16, 2006.

“’Être et paraître’: A Phenomenological Essay on the Chapels of the Great Palace.” Paper delivered at the XXI International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London 21-26 August 2006 (abstract published).

“Byzantine Constantinople in Context: Architecture, Ritual, and Urbanism.” Lecture delivered at the Ari-zona State University School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, March 22, 2005.

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“Creating the Holy and the Not-So-Holy: Architecture as a Definer of Sanctity in the Monastery tou Libos in Constantinople.” Paper delivered at the Ninety-Second Annual Conference of College Art Association, Atlanta, February 16-19, 2005 (abstract published).

The 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 6-9, 2004. Session Organizer: “The Art of Liturgy.” Session sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art.

“A Re-reading of Some Liturgical Iconographic Themes: The case of the Prothesis in Peribleptos, Mystras.” Paper delivered at the Twenty-Ninth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Bates College, October 17-19, 2003 (abstract published).

“’Let All Mortal Flesh Be Silent.’ Painting Liturgical Texts in the Late Byzantine Era.” Paper delivered at Textual Effects: Graduate Student Medieval Studies Conference at Yale University, October 19, 2002.

“Privatization, Liturgy, Chapels and other (Holy) Mysteries.” Paper delivered at the XXe Congrès In-ternational des Études Byzantines, Collège de France-Sorbonne, August 19-25, 2001 (abstract published).

“A First Approach to Textiles with New Testament scenes: the Field Museum Example.” Paper delivered at the Twenty-Fifth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Harvard University, October 26-30, 2000 (abstract published).

“St. Nicholas in-the-Fields and the Question of Imitation in Byzantine Architecture.” Paper delivered at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Maryland, November 4-7, 1999 (abstract published).

ACADEMIC SERVICE

Queens College, CUNY 2008: Member of two hiring committees 2008-9: Member of the PSC-Grants committee

Yale University 2009- Hellenic Studies Program, Faculty Affiliate 2010- Medieval Studies Program, Faculty 2010- Department of Religious Studies, Program in Ancient Christianity, Faculty Affiliate 2009- Department of the History of Art, Ph.D. Program: Examination Boards, Prospectus, and Disserta-tion Committees 2009-2012: Fellow, Initiative for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion 2009-11: Member of the YDS Community Life Committee 2012- Member of the YDS Spiritual Formation Committee 2010-11: Member of the YDS Curriculum Task Force 2010-11: Member of the ISM Colloquium Organizing Committee 2010-11, 2013: Member of the ISM Admissions Committee 2012- Freshman faculty adviser, Berkeley College 2012-2015 Member of the Executive Committee, Byzantine Studies Association of North America 2013: Member of the Local Arrangements Committee, The 39th Byzantine Studies Association Conference, New Haven, CT 2014-16: Member of the editorial board, Yale Institute of Sacred Music Review 2015-16: Member of the YDS Curriculum Committee, ISM Fellows Committee, and ISM Study Trip Com-mittee.

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2016-17: American Research Institute in Turkey, Fellowships Committee, Member.

Board memberships 2011-14: Byzantine Studies Association of North America 2011-15: The Axion Estin Foundation for Byzantine Music and the Arts

Reviewer for the Art Bulletin Reviewer for the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ Reviewer for the Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik Reviewer for the Journal of Late Antiquity

COURSES TAUGHT

At Queens College, CUNY Early Christian Art and Architecture Byzantine Art and Architecture History of the Byzantine Empire I (324-1025) History of the Byzantine Empire II (1025-1453) History of Eastern Christianities (seminar) Byzantium and the East (seminar) Byzantine Women (seminar) The Art and Architecture of Pilgrimage (seminar)

At Yale University From House Churches to Medieval Cathedrals: Christian Art and Architecture From the Third Century to the End of Gothic Christian Art and Architecture from the Renaissance to the Present (13th-21st centuries) Art, Architecture, and Ritual in the Middle Ages (graduate seminar) Early Christian Art and Architecture (graduate seminar) The Cult of Saints in Early Christianity and the Middle Ages (graduate seminar) Critical Moments in the History of Christian Art Christian Pilgrimage. Narratives, Rituals, Materialities (graduate seminar) Art and Ritual on Mount Sinai (graduate seminar) Visual Controversies: Religion and the Politics of Vision (graduate seminar) The Passion of Christ in Literature and Visual Art (graduate seminar)

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