Mirela Ivanova is an intellectual and cultural historian of Byzantium and Central and Eastern Europe, and a Junior Research Fellow in Medieval History at University College, Oxford. Her research explores written culture, literacy, multi-lingualism and cultural transmission across languages and political contexts. She is interested in texts produced during key processes of group formation, how textual monuments reflect on, and structure their representations of such processes, and how these processes have then been reflected and repurposed in the nineteenth and twentieth century historiography and nation building in Central and Eastern Europe.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Modern History from Wadham College, Oxford, and a Master of Studies and PhD in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from Balliol College, Oxford. She has also spent time as a visiting researcher at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library in Washington, DC, and the Hilandar Research Library in Ohio State University.