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Dr. Vasilescu is a Professor of Byzantine and Medieval Studies. She teaches and researches in the fields of Byzantine culture (Philosophy, iconography) for the University of Oxford and also independently.

Her work focuses, inter alia, on the texts of Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nyssa, and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite. Among her latest books are Creation and Time. Comparative Approach (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, Visions of God and ideas on deification in Patristic Thought (co-ed. Mark Edwards); Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2017, and Devotion to St. Anne from Byzantium to the Middle Ages (ed.), Palgrave, 2018.

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. Dr. Vasilescu is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences.

The details of some of her books ar as follows:

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, Creation and Time. Byzantine and Modern, 2021; ISBN: 978-1-80049-881-5

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato, 2021, ISBN: 978-1-80049-879-2

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts (an anthology of peer-reviewed articles published by the author from 2019 to 2021), 2021, ISBN: 978-1-80049-880-8

Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, Heavenly sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine iconography, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2018.

Awards:

‘Oxford University Innovation’ awarded an Award for a presentation entitled “Lessons from ancient Greece and the Byzantines on how to protect and manage the environment”.

The link to the event is here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oxford-university-innovation_innovation-sustainability-environment-activity-6858428509107359744-oDBk/

In 2019 the Early Slavic Studies Association awarded its Book Prize to Elena Ene D-Vasilescu for the volume Heavenly sustenance in Patristic Texts and Byzantine iconography.