Tina Chronopoulos

Assistant Professor of Classics and Medieval Studies

Contact Information

Office: LT 1105
Phone:
E-mail: tchronop@binghamton.edu

Interests and Background

My research focuses on medieval Latin literature during the 11th-12th centuries. Besides my engagement with hagiography, I am particularly interested in what happened to Classical authors in the Middle Ages, who read them and why. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the Latin Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria (BHL 1663), collecting all available information about the manuscripts and St Katherine's cult in order to date and locate its composition. I am currently working on a medieval schoolroom commentary on Horace's Odes: my approach is to study closely the kinds of didactic choices made by the teacher, in combination with an examination of the kinds of sources he made use of to write his commentary, in order to better understand the formation of medieval students and thus future teachers, churchmen, and intellectuals.

Education

PhD in Classics, King's College London, University of London, UK
MA in Classics, King's College London, University of London, UK
BA in Classics (Greek and Latin), St John’s College, University of Durham, UK

Talks

I will be giving a presentation on my Horace research at the International Medieval Congress on Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University in May 2013.

In July 2013, I will give a talk on a 'macaronic' German-Latin life of St Katherine of Alexandria at the International Medieval Congress organized by the Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, UK.

Publications

'The date and place of composition of the Passion of St Katherine of Alexandria (BHL 1663), Analecta Bollandiana 130 (2012), 40-88.
'Brief lives of Sidonius, Symmachus, and Fulgentius written in 12th-cent. England?, Journal of Medieval Latin 20 (2010), 232-91.
Entries on Aimon of Fleury, Alberic of Aix-La-Chapelle, Alphanus, Gennadius I, Hugh of Fleury, John of Alta Silva, Peter the Deacon, Saint-Quentin, Stephen of Rouen, and Vegius, for The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. Robert E. Bjork (2010).
Review of N. Holzberg, 'Horaz: Dichter und Werk' (2009), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 14.03.2010.
Review of H. Waddell, 'Mediaeval Latin Lyrics, w. an introduction by J. Scattergood' (2008), for The Medieval Review, 18.02.2010.
Review of C.M. Chin, 'Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World' (2008), for The Catholic Historical Review 95.4 (2009), 781-782.
Review of C. Walsh, 'The cult of St Katherine of Alexandria in Early Medieval Europe' (2007), for Early Medieval Europe 17.2 (2009), 231-32.

Teaching

Elementary Latin I (LAT 101), Fall 2010, 2011, 2012.
Elementary Latin II (LAT 102), Spring 2011, 2012, 2013.
Eternal Cities: Rome and Pompeii (CLAS 280E), Fall 2011.
Greek and Roman Biography (CLAS 212), Fall 2010.
History of the Book: from parchment to the printing press (MDVL 560A), Spring 2011.
Intermediate Latin (LAT 203), Fall 2012.
Introduction to Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MDVL 101), Spring 2011 & 2012.
Medieval Latin Literature (MDVL 561i), Spring 2012.