Dr Lenia Kouneni

Deputy Head of School

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1947

Email

gk8@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

Lenia has a BA Hons (Archaeology and Art History) from the University of Athens, Greece, as well as an MLitt (Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art) from St Andrews, where she also completed her PhD in 2009. She has worked as a Neil Macgregor scholar at the National Gallery, London, doing research for the National Inventory Research Project, and has participated in a number of archaeological excavations in Greece. 

Teaching

Lenia has been teaching modules on classical reception, Byzantine art and the art and reception of Raphael.

Research areas

Lenia's primary research interests are centred on classical reception, women travellers and history of archaeology. She has published various articles on Italo-Byzantine artistic contacts, and edited a collection of essays on The Legacy of Antiquity New Perspectives in the Reception of the Classical World (2013). She is currently working on a project to uncover and contextualise the excavation of the palace of Byzantine emperors in Istanbul during 1930-1950.

Selected publications

• A Scottish perspective on teaching the reception of classical material culture, 2 May 2024, St Andrews

  Kouneni, L., 2024

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  Teaching eighteenth-century classical reception through university museum collections

  Kouneni, L., 1 Jun 2024, Innovations in teaching history: eighteenth-century studies in higher education. Larsen, R., Marples, A. & McCormack, M. (eds.). London: University of London Press, p. 151-175 25 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The afterlife of a Pagan hero in a Christian capital: antique sculptures of Hercules in Constantinople

  Kouneni, L., 21 Nov 2024, Studies in Byzantine history and culture : a festschrift for Paul Magdalino. Tougher, S. (ed.). Leiden: Brill, p. 25-49 25 p. (Medieval Mediterranean; vol. 141).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Narrative Space and Possible Worlds: Encountering Ancient Narratives from a Cognitive Perspective. Diegesis in Mind, Cognitive Disciplines and Ancient Narrative in Dialogue

  Kouneni, L., 1 Dec 2023

  Research output: Other contribution

• Plate 3.38: Chimney Piece in the Bishop’s Palace at Exeter. Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, a Digital Edition

  Kouneni, L., 2023

  Research output: Other contribution

• “By Scottish Munificence”: the Walker Trust excavations of the Great Palace in Istanbul, 1935-55

  Kouneni, L., 1 Aug 2022, Discovering Byzantium in Istanbul: scholars, institutions, and challenges, 1800-1955 . Delouis, O. & Pitarakis, B. (eds.). Istanbul: Istanbul Research Institute, p. 237-274 (İstanbul Araştırmaları Enstitüsü kitapları [Istanbul Research Institute publications]; vol. 48).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Jacqueline Dawson Chittenden: a forgotten classical scholar

  Kouneni, L., 12 Nov 2021, In: History. 106, 372, p. 645-667 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• From Antiquity to Byzantium to Late Medieval Italy: Hercules on the Façade of San Marco

  Kouneni, L., 2020, Herakles Inside and Outside the Church. Allan, A., Anagnostou-Laoutides, E. & Stafford, E. (eds.). Leiden: Brill, p. 219-247

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Excavation and Sponsorship: Sir David Russell and the Jericho Findings

  Kouneni, L., 5 Oct 2018

  Research output: Other contribution

• The Image of Daniele Barbaro

  Kouneni, L., 2015, Daniele Barbaro (1514-70). Letteratura, scienza e arti nella Venezia del Rinascimento. Moretti, L. & Marcon, S. (eds.). Treviso: Antiga, p. 48-57

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

 

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