Dr Andrew Mellas

Senior Lecturer in Church History and Liturgical Studies, St Andrew's Greek Orthodox Theological College
Bachelor of Arts (Honours and University Medal, University of Sydney, 2001), Bachelor of Law (University of Sydney, 2003), PhD (University of Sydney, 2018).

Dr Andrew Mellas is the Senior Lecturer in Byzantine History and Liturgical Studies at St Andrew’s. In 2018, he completed a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney on the emotion of compunction in Byzantium. Andrew has published various chapters and articles on the history of Byzantium, liturgics and hymnody in peer-reviewed publications and journals, as well as presenting papers on these subjects at international conferences. He is also a member of the Australian Byzantine Choir.

Publications
Books
  • 2020

    Liturgy and the Emotions in Byzantium Compunction and Hymnody

    Cambridge University Press, 2020

Edited Books
  • 2020

    Hymns of Repentance: St Romanos the Melodist.

    Crestwood, NY: St Vladimir's Seminary Press

  • 2020

    Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium

    Leiden: Brill, 2020.

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles
  • 2020

    Let us Lift up our Hearts’: Transforming Theology into Sacred Song in Romanos the Melodist’s Hymn On Pentecost

    in Towards the Prehistory of the Byzantine Liturgical Year. Festal Homilies and Festal Liturgies in Late Antique Constantinople, Harald Buchinger and Stefanos Alexopoulos (eds) Leuven: Peeters, 2020

  • 2020

    Crying with the Compunction of the Prodigal Son: Byzantine Hymns, Liturgical Emotions and Icons of Repentance

    in Cultures of Compunction in the Medieval World. Graham Williams and Charlotte Steenbrugge (eds), London: Bloomsbury, 2020.

  • 2020

    Herakleios or Herakles? Panegyric and pathopoeia in George of Pisidia’s Herakliasin Herakles Inside and Outside the Church'.

    Arlene Allan, Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides and Emma Stafford (eds), Leiden: Brill, 2020, 116-132

  • 2018

    Dreaming Liturgically: Andrew of Crete's 'Great Kanon as a Mystical Vision' in 'Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium'.

    Bronwen Neil & Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides (eds), Leiden: Brill, 2018.

  • 2018

    "Performing the Symphony of Salvation: Liturgical Mysticism in the Hymns of Romanos the Melodist"

    Studia Patristica CXXX, 335-352.

  • 2017

    “Tears of Compunction in St John Chrysostom’s On Eutropius”

    Studia Patristica, LXXV.