Stephanos is Professor of Byzantine literature at the Open University of Cyprus, Programme in Hellenic Culture. He holds a PhD  in Byzantine hagiology from the University of Oxford (U.K.) and BA degrees in Law (University of Athens) and in Greek Literature (University of Crete). He has published numerous studies on Byzantine hagiography, historiography and prosopography. He co-edited (with Alicia Simpson) the volume Niketas Choniates: a Historian and a Writer (La Pomme d’or, Geneva 2009). A volume of collected articles on Byzantine hagiography appeared in the Variorum Collected Studies series in 2011. He is the editor of the two-volume Ashgate Research Companion to Byzantine Hagiography (2011 and 2014). His most recent monograph is The Hagiography of Byzantine Cyprus (4^th-13^th c.), published in Greek by the Cyprus Research Centre (Nicosia 2021). He is currently working on the English version of this book (to be published with Cambridge University Press) and preparing a monograph on the political and social history of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople.