Barbara Crostini is lecturer in Ecclesiastical History, Art History and Cultural Studies at the Newman Institute, Uppsala, Sweden, and Adjunct Professor in Greek at the Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University. In researching Byzantine iconoclasm she was captured by the paintings of the synagogue at Dura Europos and is writing a book provisionally entitled “City of Stars: the Dura synagogue as performative space” (Cambridge University Press). At Yale she will consult materials from the Dura excavations that reveal theatrical aspects of this city as well as study the papyri from Dura in the Beinecke Library.
