The Department of English
Christina Christoforatou is Assistant Professor of English specializing in medieval literature — western and Byzantine — as well as in manuscript studies and medieval cosmology. A native Athenian, she completed her secondary education in Greece before moving to New York to pursue undergraduate and graduate studies at the City University of New York. She has spoken and published on ancient and medieval travel narrative as well as Greco-Byzantine secular literature. Her research interests have taken her back to Greece, and to various European libraries — national and monastic — where she studied the manuscripts of the Byzantine romances she has spoken and written on. Most recently she has published articles on desire and eroticism, imperial patronage and literary evolution, and the politics of imperial legitimation from Pindar to Byzantium.
Before joining the faculty at Baruch in 2004, Professor Christoforatou taught survey courses in literature and composition, as well as courses in technical and business writing at Brooklyn College and New York City College of Technology; there she also had the opportunity to introduce Writing across the Curriculum. At Baruch College she teaches Great Works of Literature (ENG 2800 & 2850), electives in Medieval Literature (ENG 4110 & 4120) and composition courses (ENG 2100 & 2150).
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