Nikos Zagklas is Assistant Professor of Byzantine Language and Literature at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. He has published extensively on various topics related to Byzantine literary culture, with a special focus on twelfth-century poetry, questions of self-representation and literary patronage, and the relationship between prose and verse. His recent publications include the volume Middle and Late Byzantine Poetry: Texts and Contexts (ed. with A. Rhoby; Turnhout 2018) and the Brill Companion to Byzantine Poetry (ed. with W. Hörandner and A. Rhoby; Leiden 2019).