Academic interests
- Byzantine history
- Historiography
- Narratology
- Philosophy of history
- Gender and queer theory
- Reception studies
Background
Matthew Kinloch joined the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas in October 2021 after receiving funding from the Research Council of Norway (NFR) to conduct the project ‘Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing’ (Researcher Project for Young Talents, 2021–26).
During the academic year 2023–24, he will hold a Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Junior Fellowship at Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg).
Between 2018 and 2021 he held research fellowships/postdocs at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, the University of Vienna, Boğaziçi University, and Villa I Tatti.
He studied History at the University of Oxford (DPhil, 2018), Byzantine Studies at the University of Birmingham (MRes, 2014), and Ancient, Medieval, and Modern History at the Durham University (BA, 2013).
Current Projects
- Principal investigator, Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing (Researcher Project for Young Talents, 2021–26)
- Principal investigator, Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative (Marie S. Curie FRIAS COFUND Fellowship Programme, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, 2023–24)
Past Projects
- Principal investigator, Politisk økonomi og kjønn forstått gjennom middelalderfortellinger [Political Economy and Gender Understood through Medieval Narratives] (Hans Andreas Benneches stiftelse, 2023)
- Coordinator, together with Mirela Ivanova and Alexandra Vukovich, New Critical Approaches to the Byzantine World Research Network (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/The Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, 2019–22)