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Elena Ene D-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.

Work
Her work focuses, inter alia, on the texts of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen. Among her latest books are Heavenly sustenance in Patristic texts and Byzantine Iconography (2018), ''Creation and Time. Comparative Approach (2021), Michelangelo, the Byzantines, and Plato (2021) and Glimpses into Byzantium. Its Philosophy and Arts'' (an anthology of peer-reviewed articles published by the author from 2019 to 2021).

She 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.

She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. 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."