Marina Detoraki

Marina Detoraki is a Professor at the University of Crete, jointly appointed to the Department of Philology and the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology. She also directs the Laboratory of Paleography and Microfilm Archive and serves as an external collaborator of the Research Center for Byzantine Research Orient & Méditerranée UMR 8167 (Paris).

Education & Training:

• Specialized in Byzantine Philology, University of Paris-Sorbonne
• Research fellowships: Collège de France (Paris), Bodleian Libraries (University of Oxford), Dumbarton Oaks Research Library (Washington, DC)

Research Interests:

Her scholarship centers on Byzantine Philology and Greek Paleography, with particular emphasis on hagiographical texts, Byzantine narrative literature, and translation practices. A further strand of her work investigates book production in 15th–16th-century Crete, combining codicological, paleographic, and historical perspectives.

Recent Publications & Trends:

Recent outputs range from a 2020 collaborative volume on Greek libraries in the Ottoman Empire to critical editions of major hagiographic corpora. Collectively, these works illuminate the transmission, reception, and cultural contexts of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Greek texts across the Mediterranean.

Scientific Awards:

• Prize of the Academy of Athens in the class of Letters and Arts (Michael and Ioannis Katsaras Prize, 2008) for Le Martyre de saint Aréthas et de ses compagnons

Laboratory Leadership & Collaborations:

At the Laboratory of Paleography and Microfilm Archive, she oversees projects in digitization, manuscript description, and textual criticism. International collaborations include ongoing partnerships with the Collège de France-CNRS and other European centers of Byzantine studies.