Diplômes et parcours professionnel
– Bachelor in Near Eastern Studies – Egyptology, Christian East and Byzantium (KU Leuven, 2008)
– Master en langues et littératures anciennes, orientation orientales, à finalité spécialisée en philologie philologie orientales (UCLouvain, 2010)
– PhD in History (Ghent University, 2014)
– Postdoctoral Fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation – FWO (Ghent University, 2016-2020)
– Postdoctoral Research Fellow of the Center for the Study of Christianity (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2018-2019)
– Senior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Flemish Research Foundation – FWO (Ghent University, 2020-2023)
– Scientific Collaborator, LOEWE-Schwerpunkt Minderheitenstudien: Sprache und Identität. Teilprojekt C.1.3.: Aramäer / Assyrer / Chaldäer – Syrer, ihr Namensstreit und ihr Identitätsdiskurs in Geschichte und Gegenwart (University of Frankfurt, 2020-2021)
– Newton International Fellow of the British Academy (University of Oxford 2022-2024)
– Postdoctoral researcher (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 2024-2025)
– Postdoctoral researcher (University of Vienna, 2025 until present)
– Lecturer in Coptic (University of Vienna, 2025 until present)
Statut actuel
Within the FWF-START project Generative Authority of dr. Dan Batovici (Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Vienna) Dr. Hilkens investigates the Syriac and Armenian reception and representation of Clement of Rome, Dionysius the Areopagite, Ignatius of Antioch, and Hermione, daughter of the apostle Philip. He has also been teaching Coptic at the Department of Egyptology since 2025. He is coordinator of the Online Bibliography of Armenian Studies, which is being developed in the context of the ERC project Armenia Entangled (prof. dr. Zaroui Pogossian, Florence), co-founder and co-editor of the book series Eastern Christian Cultures In Contact (with Zaroui Pogossian and prof. dr. Barbara Roggema), and co-founder and co-host of the TeTra Joint Research Seminar (with dr. Dan Batovici, dr. Marion Pragt [KU Leuven], and dr. Giorgia Nicosia [Ghent University]).
Recherches personnelles
Armenian literature, Syriac literature, interactions between Syriac and Armenian Christianities, polemics, bilingualism, correspondence, late ancient historiography and hagiography in Syriac, Greek and Armenian, in particular in the Synaxarion of Constantinople and its Armenian reception, the reception of Ephrem in Armenian, Greek and Coptic.
Publications
– “Syro-Josephan and Syro-Eusebian Impressions of Pompey (Eighth-Twelfth Centuries),” in Pompey’s New Order In the Mediterranean East (67-61 BCE), ed. by Margherita Facella, Giusto Traina and Federico Santangelo (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025), 361-96.
– “The Armenian Traditions,” in First in the Desert: St. Paul the Hermit in Text and Tradition, ed. by Lisa Agaiby (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity 36; Leiden: Brill, 2025).
– “The Poet and the Martyr: Rhetoric in Jacob of Serugh’s Memrā on St. George,” in Rhetoric and Historiography: Exploring, Transgressing and Policing Generic Boundaries in Late Antiquity, ed. by Lieve Van Hoof and Maria Conterno (Leuven: Peeters, 2025).
– “‘A wise Indian astronomer called Gandoubarios’: Malalas and the legend of Yoniṭon,” in Intercultural Exchange in Late Antique Historiography, ed. by Maria Conterno and Marianna Mazzola (Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 288; Bibliothèque de Byzantion 23; Leuven: Peeters, 2024), 119-42.
– “An Armenian Invocational Prayer of a Now Lost Homily of Jacob of Serugh on Jonah and the Ninevites,” Journal of Theological Studies (2024) https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flae003.
– “Ignatius of Antioch in a medieval Syriac Orthodox treatise on divine providence,” Le Muséon 136 (2023), 39-58.
– “An Armenian Life of Jacob of Serugh: introduction, edition and translation,” Analecta Bollandiana 140 (2022), 320-339.
Liens
– https://etfcg.univie.ac.at/ueber-uns/team/andy-hilkens
– https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1398-7903
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