Dirk came to Bazantine Studies via Classics and completed his undergraduate studies in Latin and Ancient Greek at the Universities of Giessen and Munich. Dirk spent two years at the Institute of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies in Birmingham and one year at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC to work on Byzantine and post-Byzantine monasticism. Last year he completed his PhD thesis ‘Saints’ Lives and Typika: the Constantinopolitan Monastery of Panagiou in the Eleventh Century’ at Queen’s University Belfast.

Dirk’s research is based on source texts with religious themes. In the last decade he has published articles both on monastic communities like Stoudios and St Mamas in Constantinople and Mt Athos, and on Late Antique theological and spiritual treatises by authors such as Leontius of Jerusalem, Anastasius of Sinai, John of Carpathus, Timothy the Priest, Anastasius of Antioch, and Patriarch Methodius of Constantinople. Dirk’s main interest has been to investigate basic concepts of the Byzantine world-view and how they are expressed both on the level of the individual and on the level of society. Currently he is working on Middle Byzantine hagiography as a literary genre and on the discourse on monasticism and asceticism in the tenth to twelfth centuries, a field which shows changes in views on social boundaries and the transgression of these boundaries.

Publications
D. Krausmuller, 'The limits of translation: multiple meanings in a Byzantine religious poem', Metaphrastes, or, gained in translation, essays and translations in honour of Robert H. Jordan, ed. M. Mullett (BBTT, 9, Belfast, 2004), 57-61
—, 'Murder is good if God wills it. Nicetas Byzantius' polemic against Islam and the Christian tradition of divinely sanctioned murder', Al-Masaq (Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean), 16 (2004), 163-176
—, 'Metaphrasis after the second iconoclasm: Nicephorus Skeuophylax and his encomia of Theophanes Confessor (BHG 1790), Theodore of Sykeon (BHG 1749), and George the Martyr (BHG 682)', Symbolae Osloenses, 78 (2003), 45-70
—, 'Review of M.F. Auzepy, L'Hagiographie et l'Iconoclasme Byzantin. Le Cas de la Vie d'Étienne le Jeune (Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman Monographs, 5, Aldershot, 1999)', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 26 (2002), 330-332
—, 'Leontius of Jerusalem, a theologian of the 7th century', The Journal of Theological Studies, 52 (2001), 637-657
—, 'Fainting fits and their causes, a topos in two middle Byzantine metaphraseis by Nicetas the Paphlagonian and Nicephorus Ouranos', Gouden Hoorn, 9.1 (2001-2002), 4-12
—, 'Dating John of Carpathus to the 6th century', Gouden Hoorn, 7.2 (1999-2000), 7-13
—, 'Divine sex: Patriarch Methodios's concept of virginity', Desire and denial in Byzantium, ed. L. James (Aldershot, 1999), 57-65
—, 'Angels in the guise of saints in the Refutatio of Eustratius of Constantinople and in the writings of Anastasius of Sinai', Gouden Hoorn, 6.2 (1998-1999), 10-24
—, 'Byzantine concepts of the resurrection, II: Timothy of Antioch', Gouden Hoorn, 5.2 (1997-1998), 11-26
—, 'Byzantine concepts of the resurrection, I: Anastasius of Antioch', Gouden Hoorn, 5.1 (1997), 11-17
—-, 'Conjecture or diorasis? How the Byzantines gained knowledge of each other', Bulletin of British Byzantine Studies, 23 (1997), 85
—, 'Private vs communal: Niketas Stethatos's Hypotyposis for Stoudios, and patterns of worship in eleventh-century Byzantine monasteries', Work and worship at the Theotokos Evergetis, ed. M. Mullett and A. Kirby (BBTT, 6.2, Belfast, 1997), 309-328
—-, 'The Athonite monastic tradition during the eleventh and early twelfth centuries', Mount Athos and Byzantine monasticism, ed. A. Bryer and M. Cunningham (Aldershot, 1996), 57-65
—, 'The monastic communities of Stoudios and St Mamas in the second half of the tenth century', The Theotokos Evergetis and eleventh-century monasticism, ed. M. Mullett, A. Kirby (BBTT, 6.1, Belfast, 1994), 67-85

Forthcoming publications
D. Krausmüller, 'Strategies of equivocation and the construction of multiple meanings in middle Byzantine texts', Jahrbuch der Österreichischen Byzantinistik, 56 (2006)
—, 'Mount Athos and Byzantine spirituality', The Cambridge History of Christianity, V, ed. M. Angold (Cambridge, 2005)
—, 'Conflicting anthropologies in the Late Antique Christological discourse: Leontius of Jerusalem's Nestorian adversary and the construction of an "anthropological" orthodoxy', Journal of Theological Studies, 56 (2005)
—, 'Theotokos - diadochos: punning (parechesis) and the subversion of a doctinal shibboleth in Theodore of Petra's Life of Theodosius the Coenobiarch', Byzantine Orthodoxies (Papers from the Thirty-Sixth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Durham, March 2002), ed. A. Louth (Aldershot, 2005)
—, 'The lost first Life of Athanasius the Athonite and its author Anthony, abbot of the Constantinopolitan monastery of Ta Panagiou', Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries, ed. M. Mullett (BBTT, 6.3, Belfast, 2005)
-, 'Imperial founders and first abbots: the cases of John II Komnenos and Basil the Macedonian', Founders and refounders of Byzantine monasteries, ed. M. Mullett (BBTT, 6.3, Belfast, 2005)
—, 'With or without sex? Models of sanctity for laymen in ninth- and tenth-century Byzantium', Byzantine Masculinities, ed. D. Smythe
—, 'Divine investiture: the installation of Byzantine abbots in Stoudite illuminations and in eleventh- and twelfth-century typika', Image and text in the Theodore Psalter, ed. J. Anderson
—-, 'Exploring links between text and image in the Theodore Psalter: the perspective of a textual Scholar', Image and text in the Theodore Psalter, ed. J. Anderson
—, 'The encomium of Mary of Egypt by Euthymius the Protasekretis', Basilissa, ed. A. Hirst
—, 'God as impersonator of saints in late antique hagiography: the case of the Life of John bar Aphtonia († 537)', Basilissa, ed. A. Hirst
—, 'Some observations on the cult and hagiographical dossier of St Agatha in ninth- and tenth-century Byzantium', Basilissa, ed. A. Hirst