Aglae Pizzone is a Byzantinist with a training in classics. In her research she focuses on cultural history and history of the ideas. She has worked on conceptualizations of fiction and imagination from the Graeco-Roman to Medieval times, as well as on the history of emotions in Byzantium and digital approaches to manuscript studies. Aglae is currently professor of Ancient and Medieval Greek at the Department of Language, Culture, History and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark (SDU). After earning her Ph.D. at the University of Milan and before joining SDU, she carried research in France, the USA, the UK, and Switzerland. Besides being AntCom’s PI, she leads two Carlsberg funded projects (E-Rhetoric, digital infrastructure; A Rhetoric for the Empire, Semper Ardens Accelerate) investigating rhetorical theory in the Middle Byzantine period.