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Mirela Ivanova is a Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at University College, Oxford. Her research focuses on Byzantium and Central/Eastern Europe, emphasizing written culture, multilingualism, and cultural transmission. She critically examines how medieval textual practices influenced socio-political contexts and challenges 19th/20th-century historiography shaped by nation-building. She co-convenes the TORCH Research Network 'New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World', organizing events on post-colonialism, gender theory, and Balkanism.
Her doctoral thesis, Inventing Slavonic: Cultures of Writing between Rome and Constantinople, analyzed the Slavonic alphabet's evolution (ca. 860–950) and its impact on ideas about writing and conversion. She teaches courses on global medieval history, Byzantium, and early medieval Europe at Oxford.
Publications include Beyond Balkanism (2019) and Living Space: Socialist Blocks as Homes (2015), exploring cultural and architectural histories. She actively engages with historical theory and philosophy, advocating for interdisciplinary and decolonial methodologies in Byzantine studies.
