Current Member
Vessela V. Valiavitcharska
George William Cottrell, Jr. Member; additional funding provided by the Fund for Historical Studies
Affiliation
Historical Studies
Field of study
Byzantine Literature and Rhetoric
Home institution
University of Maryland, College Park
At IAS, Vessela Valiavitcharska will study the philosophy of language implicit in Byzantine rhetorical treatises from the ninth to the eleventh centuries. Ideas of how language worked affected everything, from argument construction to verbal expression.
Visits
Member
School of Historical Studies
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Fall
Degrees
University of Texas Austin
Ph.D.
2007