Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
Lector
lektor
Building:
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower Room:
502 Phone number:
+36 1 327-3048 Qualifications:
PhD Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (2006)
MA Medieval Studies, Central European University, Budapest (1998)
BA/Licenţă Classics, Universitatea de Vest, Timişoara (1997)
Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:
Fellowships:
Junior Fellow at the Collegium Budapest, Institute of Advanced Studies (May-July 2010).
Early Stage Research Fellow at the Istituto di Studi Avanzati, University of Bologna (January–July 2009) with the project “Uprooting the Tree of Desire: Male Homoeroticism and its Problematization in the Monastic Milieus of Late Antique Gaza.”
Research Fellow at the New Europe College, Bucharest (2002/3) with the project “How to Love Thy Neighbour: Late Antique Monastic Problematisation of Homoerotic Behaviour.”
Since 2007, Junior Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Traditions, Central European University, Budapest.
Participation in International Research Projects:
“Gnôthi seauton! Classics and Communism; The History of Studies on Antiquity in the Context of the Local Classical Tradition, Socialist Countries 1944/5-1989/90,” a focus group convened by Jerzy Axer and György Karsai, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies (Warsaw) and Collegium Budapest, 2009/10.
Translation Projects:
Translator of the Minor Prophets for the New Romanian Septuagint Translation project at the New Europe College (Bucharest, 2002/2007). Annotated Romanian translation published as Septuaginta, vol. 5, Osea. Amos. Michea. Ioel. Abdias. Iona. Naum. Avacum. Sophonia. Aggeu. Zaharia. Malachia, [Romanian ] trans. C. Gaşpar, ed. C. Bădiliţă et al. Iaşi: Polirom, 2009. 648 p. ISBN: 9789734614288.
Prizes and Awards:
2007 CEU Third Best Dissertation Award.
2005 CEU Academic Achievement Award for Doctoral Students.
1998 Certificate of proficiency in Medieval Latin (Ph. D. level) awarded by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto.
1993 "Menzione onorevole" awarded at the international Latin competition Certamen Ciceronianum Arpinas, 13th edition.
Membership in Professional Associations:
Since 2007, member of the International Association of Patristic Studies, North-American Patristics Society, and Hagiotheca-Croatian Hagiographic Society.
Since 2001, founding member of the Romanian Society of Indo-European Studies.
Between 2003 and 2005, member of the editorial board of Khōra. Revue d’Études Anciennes et Médievales: Philosophie, Théologie, Sciences.
Other Academic Achievements:
In 2005, paid guest lecturer, Szépmüvészeti Múzeum, Budapest: “Az egyiptomi szerzetesség változó vonásai” [The changing face of the Egyptian monasticism] within the lecture series accompanying the Coptic Art Exhibition (“A fáraók után: a kopt művészet kincsei Egyiptomból”).
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Academic/research topics:
Ancient Greek
Postclassical Greek
Medieval Latin
Indo-European Studies
Late Antiquity
byzantine studies
Monasticism
Ancient Sexualities
Monastic Sexualities
Classical Latin
Septuagint Studies
Hagiography
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1998/1999 Courses taught by Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
Thesis or Theses associated with Cristian-Nicolae Gaşpar
Publications
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"The Emperor Who Conversed with the Angels : The Making of a ‘Pagan’ Saint in the Fourth Century." In Memory, humanity, and meaning : selected essays in honor of Andrei Plesu's sixtieth anniversary, edited by M. Neamtu and B. Tataru-Cazaban, 233-248. Bucuresti: Zeta Books, 2009.
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"The Spirit of Fornication, Whom the Children of the Hellenes Used to Call Eros’: Male Homoeroticism and the Rhetoric of Chastity in the Letters of Nilus of Ancyra." In Chastity : a study in perception, ideals, opposition, edited by N. Van Deusen, 151-183. Leiden: Brill, 2008.
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"The King of Kings and the Holy Men : Royal Authority and Sacred Power in the Early Byzantine World." In Monotheistic kingship : the medieval variants, edited by A. Al-Azmeh and J. M. Bak, 63-88. Pasts incorporated : CEU studies in the humanities , no. 3. Budapest: CEU Press, 2004.
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"Cassian’s Syrian Monastic Contemporaries." In Jean Cassien entre l’Orient et l’Occident actes du colloque international, Bucarest, 27-28 septembre 2001, edited by C. Badilita and A. Jakab, 15-33. Paris, Iasi: Beauchesne and Polirom, 2003.
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In praise of unlikely holy men : elite hagiography monastic panegyric and cultural translation in the Philotheos historia of Theodoret bishop of Cyrrhus. Budapest: CEU, Budapest College, 2006.
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