Vasiliki MANOLOPOULOU

My work centres on the intersection of landscape studies, environmental humanities and the history of emotions, focusing on the Eastern Mediterranean during the first millennium. Key research interests include perceptions of nature (affective ecocriticism), climate emotions, ritual landscape (especially sacred landscapes and movement, including processions and pilgrimage), urban landscapes, and material ecologies (especially the role of the natural environment in the architecture of the sacred).

I am currently part of the research project Science, Society and Environmental Change in the First Millennium CE (SSE1K, ERC Grant Agreement 101044437) led by Professor Helen Foxhall Forbes, examining how people experienced and responded to environmental challenges during the first millennium.

Before this role, I held teaching and research posts at Durham University, Princeton University, King’s College London, Northumbria University, and Newcastle University.

My forthcoming monograph is on religious processions in Byzantine Constantinople and how participation in annual commemorative religious processions (litai) shaped landscape perception and affected the preservation of social memory in medieval Constantinople.