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Prof. Elena Ene Drăghici-Vasilescu teaches Byzantine and Medieval culture at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the United Kingdom. She also works independently. Dr. Vasilescu has published numerous books and articles, and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Her work focuses, inter alia, on the texts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite and of the Cappadocian thinkers Gregory Nazianzen and Gregory of Nyssa. Among her latest books are Creation and Time. Byzantine and Modern (2021), Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato (2021); Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts (an anthology of peer-reviewed articles published by the author from 2019 to 2021), Heavenly sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine iconography, Palgrave, 2018, and Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristic Thought (co-ed. Mark Edwards); Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017. Dr. Vasilescu has also published chapters in collective volumes; some of those are as follows: “The Last Wonderful thing. The icon of the Heavenly Ladder”, in James and A. Eastmond (eds.), Wonderful Things. Byzantium through its Art, Farnham: Ashgate, 2013, “Gregory of Nyssa” entry in Ph. Esler (ed.), The Early Christian World, Routledge, 2017. Her articles feature in leading journals as, for instance, Byzantinoslavica, The Journal of Theological Studies, Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes, Studia Patristica, The Journal of Early Christian History, Akropolis, and the International Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences.