Rate My Professor Lara Sels

Her research focuses on palaeoslavistics, old Church Slavonic language and literature, Byzantine-Slav cultural relations, translation literature, manuscript study, textual criticism, and text editing, particularly translations of Byzantine-Greek source texts into Old Church Slavonic. She serves as co-promotor on the FWO-funded projects 'The Slavonic Metaphrasis of Byzantine Orthodoxy. A Case Study on the Anthological Habit in South Slavonic Translation Literature: the (Ps.-)Anastasian Question-and-answers and the Soterios' (2024-2028) and 'The Slavonic Metaphrasis of Byzantine Orthodoxy. A Digital Inventory of South Slavonic Translation Literature applied to Research on Translated Authority and Linked Texts' (2024-2027). Notable publications include 'Towards a Greek-Slavonic Edition of the Life of St Blasios of Amorion (BHG 278)' with G. Gollo (Byzantinoslavica, 2026), 'Byzantine Hagiography in Slavonic Translation: Contexts and Digital Tools' with R. Ceulemans (Byzantinoslavica, 2025), 'The Slavonic Tradition of Ignatius' Epistola ad Romanos (CPG 1025.4)' (MUSEON, 2023), and 'Manuscripts and Margins. The Case of the Late Mediaeval Slavonic Hexaemeron Collection or Šestodnevnik and its Greek Source Text' in Caught in Translation (Brill, 2020). She has also published in memoriam pieces on Francis J. Thomson and contributed to digital tools for Slavonic studies.