Matthew Kinloch

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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

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)

 

Tags: Classics, History of ideas, Historiography, Medieval Studies, Byzantine History, Philosophy of History, Narratology

Publications

Co-Written/Edited Books and Journal Issues

Mobility and Migration in Byzantium: A Sourcebook (Göttingen: Vienna University Press/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2023), co-written with Claudia Rapp, Dirk Krausmüller, Ekaterini Mitsiou, Ilias Nesseris, Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Giulia Rossetto, Rustam Shukurov, and Grigori Simeonov.

Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries), Medieval Worlds 14 (2021), 3–207, guest edited with Bruno de Nicola.

Trends and Turning Points: Constructing the Late Antique and Byzantine World (Leiden: Brill, 2019), co-edited with Alex MacFarlane.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters [selected]

‘Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine Studies’, in B. Anderson and M. Ivanova (eds), Towards a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies (State College: Penn State University Press, 2023), 133–142.

‘Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea’, in M. Kulhánková and P. Marciniak (eds), Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire (London: Bloomsbury, 2023), 207–224.

‘Stories of Emperors, Sultans, and Cities: Comparing Protagonists in the Histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni’, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 46 (2022), 196–213.

‘Reframing Medieval Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean: Narratives, States, and Cities’, Medieval Worlds, 14 (2021), 6–21.

‘In the Name of the Father, the Husband, or Some Other Man: The Subordination of Female Characters in Byzantine Historiography’, Dumbarton Oaks Papers 74 (2020), 303–328.

  • Kinloch, Matthew (2023). Publication and Citation Practices: Enclosure, Extractivism, and Gatekeeping in Byzantine Studies. In Ivanova, Mirela & Anderson, Benjamin (Ed.), Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? Towards a Critical Historiography of Byzantine Studies . Penn State University Press. ISSN 9780271095264. p. 133–142. doi: 10.5325/jj.6195052.15. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2023). Imagining Action: Explanation in Twentieth-Century Historiographical and Fictional Rewritings of the Chronicle of Morea. In Kulhankova, Marketa & Marciniak, Przemyslaw (Ed.), Byzantium in the Popular Imagination: The Modern Reception of the Byzantine Empire. I.B. Tauris. ISSN 9780755607303. p. 207–224.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Stories of emperors, sultans, and cities: Comparing protagonists in the histories of Doukas and Leonardo Bruni. Byzantine and modern Greek studies. ISSN 0307-0131. 46(2), p. 196–213. doi: 10.1017/byz.2022.4. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2021). Reframing Medieval Anatolia, Caucasia, and the Aegean: Narratives, States, and Cities. Medieval Worlds. 14, p. 6–21. doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s6.
  • Kinloch, Matthew Cameron (2020). In the Name of the Father, the Husband, or Some Other Man: The Subordination of Female Characters in Byzantine Historiography. Dumbarton Oaks Papers. ISSN 0070-7546. 74, p. 303–328.

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  • Kinloch, Matthew (2023). Minor Characters in Byzantine Historiographical Narrative.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2023). The Disciplinary Weighting of Textuality and Personhood in the Resolution of Character.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2023). Byzantine History Writing and Narrative Theories of Character; or Who decides what a (minor) character is?
  • Kinloch, Matthew & Morcom, Thomas Patrick (2023). Unruly Casts and Awkward Protagonists: Possible Premodern Contributions to the Narrative Theory of Characters.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Narrative Hierarchies: Minor Characters in Byzantine and Medieval History Writing.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Urban Populations in Doukas’ History: Some Narratological and Comparative Observations.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Towards a Poetics of Byzantine Historiography.
  • Kinloch, Matthew (2022). Citation.
  • Kinloch, Matthew; Nilsson, Ingela & Poulsen, Aske Damtoft (2022). Narrative and Narratology in Pre-Modern Historiography.
  • Kinloch, Matthew & De Nicola, Bruno (2021). Preface to Special Issue 'Urban Agencies: Reframing Anatolian and Caucasian Cities (13th-14th Centuries)'. Medieval Worlds. 14, p. 3–5. doi: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no14_2021s3.

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