S.B., D.Phil in Modern Greek Literature from the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford, 1990. Professor Van Dyck writes and teaches on Modern Greek literature and culture, gender, diaspora and translation. She is the author of Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967 (Cornell, 1998; in translation Agra 2002) and The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan 1998) and editor of The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Anvil, 2008; Graywolf, 2009), A Lannan Translation Selection. She is co-editor of A Century of Greek Poetry(Cosmos 2004) as well as of the forthcoming The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009). Besides these projects she has published articles on Diaspora literature, the Language Question, translation and multilingualism. She is currently completing a book on literature that is structured by the relation between Greek and English. She has directed the Program in Hellenic Studies at Columbia since 1988 and been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, the Center for Literary Translation and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

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Vangelis Calotychos 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 2009. 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. He directs the ‘Modern Greek Seminar’ at Columbia’s University Seminars’ Program.

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Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, UCLA 1990. Professor Gourgouris writes and teaches on a variety of subjects, ultimately entwined around questions of the poetics and politics of modernity. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996) and Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003), and editor of the forthcoming Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2009). Outside these projects he has also published numerous articles on Ancient Greek philosophy, modern poetics, film, contemporary music, Enlightenment law, psychoanalysis. He is currently completing work on two projects of secular criticism: The Perils of the One and Nothing Sacred. He is also an internationally awarded poet, with four volumes of poetry published in Greek, most recent being Εισαγωγή στην Φυσική [Introduction to Physics] (Athens, 2005). He has translated the work of various Greek poets into English – notably Yiannis Patilis’ Camel of Darkness (Quarterly Review of Literature Book Series, Vol 36, 1997) – as well as the poetry of Heiner Müller and Carolyn Forché into Greek. He writes regularly in major Greek newspapers and journals on political and literary matters. He is currently the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association.

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B.A. Oxford, 1981; M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1983; Ph.D., Oxford, 1988.

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B.A., American College of Greece, 1981; M.A., Indiana, 1985; Ph.D., 1992

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B.A. Columbia, 1994; M.A. Princeton, 1998; Ph.D. Princeton 2004.

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