Daria Resh

Research Interests

Daria Resh completed her PhD dissertation, titled “Metaphrasis in Byzantine Hagiography: The Early History of the Genre (ca. 800–1000),” at the Department of Classics at Brown University (Providence, USA), on the history and theory of rhetorical re-writing and intra-linguistic translation in Greek hagiography during the ninth century; for this work she received scholarships and grants from Brown University, the Onassis Foundation, the Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture, and Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University). She has published articles on Ioannes of Sardeis, a key-figure in this history and a Byzantine commentator of Hermogenes, and on the Byzantine theory and practice of metaphrasis, as well as on the early and middle Byzantine texts on St. Barbara. Together with David Konstan (NYU), she was a collaborating scholar in a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), with the title: “The Legends of Barbara and Katherine in the Greek Tradition [4th-10th Centuries])” at the Department of Classics, New York University (USA). She is also a researcher at the Swedish Institute at Athens as part of the international project “Retracing connections: Byzantine Storyworlds in Greek, Arabic, Georgian, and Old Slavonic (c. 950 – c. 1100)”, (https://retracingconnections.org), funded through Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Sweden).