Maria Constantina Terss is a fifth year PhD Candidate in Stanford University’s Department of Art & Art History, under the supervision of Prof. Bissera Pentcheva.
Her research focuses on Byzantine and Medieval art, and she is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, entitled, “The Synergistic Cosmos of the Liturgical Image. From Memory to Liturgy: Performative Dialogues in the Post-Iconoclast Art of Rome, Constantinople and the Carolingians.” This research focuses on how the role of the sacred figural image changed for these three groups in dialogue with each other in the aftermath of the Byzantine Iconoclastic crisis (726-787 AD and 815-843 AD).
During the academic year 2021-2022, Maria will be a scholar in residence at the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Platonism, and she will present a section of her dissertation.