Byzantine Intersectionality: Sexuality, Gender, and Race in the Middle Ages

Roland Betancourt is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine. He has been appointed as a Chancellor's Fellow from 2019-2022. In the 2016-2017 academic year, he was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He has co-edited Byzantium/Modernism (Leiden, 2015), and his work has appeared in several journals and edited volumes. His first monograph Sight, Touch, and Imagination in Byzantium (Cambridge, 2018) proposes a new understanding of theories of vision in the ancient Greek and Byzantine worlds. His forthcoming book Byzantine Intersectionality deals with race, sexuality, and gender identity in the medieval world.