Margaret Mullett

Margaret Elizabeth Mullett (OBE ) (1946-) is Professor Emerita of Byzantine Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. She is a former director of Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in Washington, D.C., the foremost centre for the study of Byzantium in North America. Mullett is a leading proponent of a more theoretical approach to Byzantine studies and Byzantine texts.

Education

Mullett read Medieval History and Medieval Latin at Birmingham University.[1] She received her PhD from the Centre for Byzantine Studies, Birmingham University, in 1981. Her dissertation was entitled, Theophylact Through His Letters: the Two Worlds of an Exile Bishop.[2]

Career

As Director at Dumbarton Oaks, Mullett was also the editor of Dumbarton Oaks Papers.[3] Previous to her position at Dumbarton Oaks, she was a Professor of Byzantine Studies and Director of the Institute of Byzantine Studies at the Queen's University of Belfast and Director of the Queen's Gender Initiative.[4][5] She is the author of Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop, Variorum, 1997.[4] With Judith Herrin and Catherine Otten-Froux, she edited a Feschrift for A. H. S. Megaw, published in 2001 by the British School in Athens.[6]

Mullett was created an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006.[7][8]

Bibliography
  • Knowing Bodies, Passionate Souls: Sense Perception in Byzantium (ed. by Susan Ashbrook Harvey and Margaret Mullett) (Washington, D.C): Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2017)
  • Mosaic: Festschrift for A.H.S Megaw, ed. by Judith Herrin, Margaret Mullett, and Catherine Otten-Froux (London: British School in Athens, 2001)
  • Theophylact of Ochrid: Reading the Letters of a Byzantine Archbishop (Variorum, 1997)

    References
    1. "Byzantine Tents and the Global Middle Ages | Mary Jaharis Center". The Mary Jaharis Center. Retrieved 2021-01-22.
    2. "https://birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44BIR_ALMA_DS2180201620004871&context=L&vid=44BIR_VU1&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_44BIR_S_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=shelves&query=any,contains,margaret%20mullett&facet=rtype,include,dissertations&offset=0". birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22. External link in |title= (help)
    3. "Margaret Mullett, Director of Byzantine Studies". Dumbarton Oaks. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
    4. "Margaret MULLETT BA, PhD, FSA". Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
    5. "How to make the old dinosaurs sing and dance to the tune and dance to the tune of the new-girl network". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
    6. "https://birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44BIR_ALMA_DS21124038380004871&context=L&vid=44BIR_VU1&lang=en_US&search_scope=LSCOP_44BIR_S_ALL&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=shelves&query=any,contains,margaret%20mullett&offset=0". birmingham-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com. Retrieved 2021-01-22. External link in |title= (help)
    7. "Queen's Birthday Honours 2006". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
    8. "VICE-CHANCELLOR'S BUSINESS" (PDF). Queen's University Belfast. Retrieved 15 July 2011.


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