Professor M. Lauxtermann
Professor M. Lauxtermann
Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature,
Fellow of Exeter College
Address: 47 Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF
Email: marc.lauxtermann@exeter.ox.ac.uk
Tel: 01865 270483
Research
Marc Lauxtermann has just completed a lexicographic project and is currently working on the following topics: the biography of John Mauropous, poetic paratexts and marginalia, Byzantine laughter and its social/political implications, the language of the so-called Prochoprodromika, and the earliest grammars of Modern Greek.
Teaching
History of the Greek Language, Solomos and Dimotika, Twentieth-Century Poetry, The Construction of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Greece, Byzantine Poetry of the Eleventh Century, Psellos and Contemporaries, Popular Tales of Byzantium, Byzantine Text Seminar, The Byzantine Theatron
Publications
'Two Surveys of Modern Greek Literature: Stephanos Kanelos (1822) and Iakovakis Rizos Neroulos (1826)', Kambos, 15 (2007), 125-148
'The Anthology of Cephalas', in Byzantinische Sprachkunst. Studien zur byzantinischen Literatur gewidmet Wolfram Hörandner zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. M. Hinterberger & E. Schiffer (Berlin-New York, 2007), 194-208
Οι απαρχές του ρυθμού.Ένα δοκίμιο για τον πολιτικό στίχο και άλλα βυζαντινά μέτρα (Thessaloniki, 2007)
'All about George', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 55 (2005), 1-6
'La poesia', in Lo spazio letterario del medioevo. 3. Le culture circostanti. Volume 1. La cultura bizantina, ed. G. Cavallo & G. De Gregorio (Rome, 2004), 301-343
Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres. Texts and Contexts, vol. I (Vienna, 2003)
'Byzantine Poetry and the Paradox of Basil II’s Reign', in Byzantium in the Year 1000, ed. P. Magdalino (Leiden, 2003), 199-216
With M.C. Janssen, 'The Oracles of Leo and the Tale of the True Emperor', in The Oracles of the Most Wise Emperor Leo & the Tale of the True Emperor, ed. W.G. Brokkaar et al., (Amstelodamensis graecus VI E 8) (Amsterdam, 2002), 23-44
'Digenis Akritis & Digenis Akritas. De receptie van het epos in het Griekenland van de negentiende en vroege twintigste eeuw', in Oerteksten, ed. J. Leerssen & M. Mathijsen (Amsterdam, 2002), 41-54
'Ninth-Century Classicism and the Erotic Muse', in Desire and Denial in Byzantium, ed. L. James (Aldershot, 1999), 161-170
The Spring of Rhythm. An Essay on the Political Verse and Other Byzantine Metres (Vienna, 1999)
'The Velocity of Pure Iambs. Byzantine Observations on the Metre and Rhythm of the Dodecasyllable', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 48 (1998), 9-33.