Rate My Professor Reinhart Ceulemans

Reinhart Ceulemans is an associate professor of Greek and Byzantine Literature at KU Leuven’s Faculty of Arts, affiliated with the Research Unit of Literary Studies and Cultural Studies. He obtained his PhD in Classics in 2009, with a thesis entitled a study and edition of the Hexaplaric remnants of the Song of Songs and their reception in Christian literature. As a postdoctoral fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) from 2009 to 2015, he cultivated his interests in the Greek Bible and Byzantine literature. During this period, he served as a research fellow at the Academy of Sciences and Humanities of Göttingen’s Septuaginta-Unternehmen (2011–2014) and held a visiting professorship at the philosophy department of Ghent University (2012–2013). In 2015, he was appointed to a research professorship at KU Leuven, progressing to his current associate professor position.

Ceulemans’s research specializations encompass catenae and biblical exegesis in Late Antiquity and Byzantium, Byzantine anthological literature, the transmission of the Greek Bible, and textual criticism, alongside interests in Greek epistolography and Dutch translations of Greek literature. He coordinates research line 1 (Greek Studies) at LECTIO – KU Leuven Institute for the Study of the Transmission of Texts, Ideas and Images in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Key publications include co-editing Research on Psalter Catenae: Current Trends and Future Perspectives (2021, De Gruyter) with Cordula Bandt and Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: Texts, Manuscripts, and their Readers (2020, Uppsala Universitet) with Barbara Crostini. Recent contributions feature “The Structure of the Popular Catena on Genesis” (2025) in Ordres et désordres dans les chaînes exégétiques grecques, “Procopius in the Catena Lipsiensis on I–IV Kingdoms, and the Margins of Manuscript Munich, BSB, gr. 358” (2024), and “Greek Exegesis of the Song of Songs Copied by Patrick Young” (2025). He supervises doctoral projects on Byzantine hagiography, Slavonic translations of Byzantine texts, and Jerome’s biblical translations. Ceulemans contributes to editorial boards such as Corpus Christianorum: Series Graeca, steering committees of societies in Byzantine Studies, Patristics, and Septuagint Studies, serves as SBL Program Chair for the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies, board member of the Leitungskommission for the Editio critica maior des griechischen Psalters, and Belgian correspondent for the Byzantinische Zeitschrift bibliography.