VANGELIS CALOTYCHOS is Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies & presently Acting Director, Program in Hellenic Studies, at the Department of Classics, Columbia University.

He received his B.A. at the University of Birmingham, U.K. (French & Modern Greek Literature); M.A. Ohio State (English Literature); and received his Ph.D in Comparative Literature at Harvard University. From 1991-96, he was Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies, at the George Seferis Chair in the Department of The Classics, at Harvard. From 1996-2004 he taught in the Department of Comparative Literature & The A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at NYU.

He has published and reviewed widely on Greek literature and culture in comparative and theoretical contexts drawn from debates in comparative literature and cultural studies. His Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics (Berg, 2003) considers modernity and questions of identity, culture, and politics in Greece from just before the founding of the nation state to the present. For many years, he has promoted interdisciplinary work on Cyprus: he edited Cyprus and Its People: Nation, Identity and Experience in an Unimaginable Community, 1955-1997, (Westview, 1998) and co-edited a special issue of The Journal of Mediterranean Studies (8:2, 1999) entitled Divisive Cities, Divided Cities: Nicosia. He is currently focusing on Balkan literature and film for a book on the cultural, social and political effects of greater exchange between the Balkans and Greek society post-1989. A volume of essays drawn from a conference Calotychos organized at Columbia in 2006 in memory of the poet Manolis Anagnostakis will appear under his editorship in 2007. In 2004, his collaborative translation with Patricia Felisa Barbeito of Menis Koumandareas’s short stories, Their Smell Makes Me Want To Cry, was published in the University of Birmingham Modern Greek Translations series.