I am from Amsterdam. I was born there, studied there and worked there for many years before coming to Oxford and taking up the post of Stavros Niarchos Foundation – Bywater and Sotheby Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Language and Literature. I became an Emeritus Fellow in 2025.
Research
Marc Lauxtermann has written extensively on Byzantine poetry and metre, and is the co-editor of a recent book on the letters of Psellos. Further research interests include translations of oriental tales in Byzantium and the earliest grammars and dictionaries of vernacular Greek.
Teaching
History of the Greek Language, Greek Linguistics, Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Solomos and Dimotika, The Construction of the Past in Nineteenth-Century Greece, Literary Genres in Byzantium, Byzantine Poetry, Psellos and Contemporaries, Popular Tales of Byzantium, Byzantine Text Seminar
Publications
Byzantine Poetry from Geometres to Pisides: Texts and Contexts, 2 vols (Wiener Byzantinistische Studien XXIV) (Vienna, 2003-19).
‘Unhistoric Acts: The Three Lives of Romanos Nikiforou’, The Historical Review/La Revue Historique 9 (2012), 117-140.
‘Το παράπονο του δασκάλου: το τρίτο Πτωχοπροδρομικό και η βυζαντινή γραμματική παράδοση’ (with M.C. Janssen), in: I. García Gálvez and O. Omatos Sáenz (eds), Tolmiros Skapaneas. Homenaje al Profesor K. Dimadis (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 2012), 25-41.
‘Linguistic Encounters: The Presence of Spoken Greek in Sixteenth-Century Venice’, in: D. Gondicas (ed.), Renaissance Encounters: Greek East and Latin West (Leiden, 2013), 189-207.
‘And Many, Many More: a Sixteenth-Century Description of Private Libraries in Constantinople, and the Authority of Books’, in: P. Armstrong (ed.), Authority in Byzantium (Aldershot, 2013), 269-282.
‘Constantine’s City: Constantine the Rhodian and the Beauty of Constantinople’, in: A. Eastmond & L. James (eds), Wonderful Things: Byzantium through its Art (Aldershot, 2013), 353-367.
‘Tomi, Mljet, Malta: Critical Notes on a Twelfth-Century Southern Italian Poem of Exile’, Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik 64 (2014), 155-176.
‘His, and Not His: The Poems of the Late Gregory the Monk’, in: A. Pizzone (ed.), The Byzantine Author in Middle Byzantine Literature: Modes, Functions, and Identities (Berlin-Boston, 2014), 77-86.
‘Introduction’, in: M. Jeffreys & M.D. Lauxtermann (eds), The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities (Oxford, 2017), 3-12.
‘The Intertwined Lives of Michael Psellos and John Mauropous’, in: M. Jeffreys & M.D. Lauxtermann (eds), The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities (Oxford, 2017), 89-127.
‘Authorship Revisited: Language and Metre in the Ptochoprodromika’ (with M.C. Janssen), in: T. Shawcross & I. Toth (eds), Reading in Byzantium and Beyond (Cambridge, 2018), 558-584.
‘Texts and Contexts’, in: W. Hörandner, A. Rhoby and N. Zagklas (eds), A Companion to Byzantine Poetry (Leiden-Boston, 2019), 19-37.
‘Asinine Tales East and West: The Ass’s Confession and The Mule’s Hoof’ (with M.C. Janssen), Byzantinische Zeitschrift 112 (2019), 105-122.