We are sad to announce the passing of our member Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys, who died on 12 September 2023. She was Bywater and Sotheby Professor at Oxford University from 1996 to 2006, and a Fellow of Exeter College. She served as an active and conscientious chairman of the Standing Committee on Modern Greek in the Universities (SCOMGIU), the organisation that preceded the creation of the Society for Moden Greek Studies, and she continued to be a member of SMGS until her death. Although most of her research and publications fell within the Byzantine period, Elizabeth had a special interest in late medieval vernacular Greek literature, particularly the verse romances. She edited and translated the Grottaferrata and Escorial versions of Digenis Akritis, and (with M. Papathomopoulos) published the first complete edition of The War of Troy. Her other publications include numerous studies of the vernacular romances, some of them jointly with her husband Michael. Her death is a great loss to both Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies.