Summary
Comparative literature, especially classics and modern literatures, modern Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies, including Greek Americans
Comparative literature, especially classics and modern literatures, modern Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies, including Greek Americans
Current Institution | University of Michigan |
Department | Classical Studies |
Disciplines | |
Address | 2160 Angell Hall, 435 S. State Street Ann Arbor Michigan 48109-1003 United States Phone: 734-615-329 |
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The Ohio State University
P.hD.,
Comparative Literature
(1991)
The Ohio State University
M.A.,
Greek
(1984)
Oberlin College
B.A.,
Religious Studies and Studio Art
(1979)
- Ohio Arts Council Grant, Traditional Arts Program, for the exhibit “Women’s Fabric Arts in Greek America: and for the making of a documentary video on the exhibit (1994)
- Council for European Studies (Columbia University) grant for the workshop, “Descent from the Acropolis: Practicing Hellenism Today (Feb 1995)
- Foundation for Hellenic Studies grant for “Agon: A Conference on the Common Place, Tragic Fate, Contemporary Return, and Democratic Future of the Classical (Apr 1997)
Publication Summary
Authored Books
- Culture and Customs of Greece (Westport CT: Greenwood Press/ABC-CLIO, April 2009) in the series
- “Culture and Customs of Europe” Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping a Homeland (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995) in the series
- “Myth and Poetics” edited by Gregory Nagy. Topografies Ellinismou: I hartografisi tis patridas (Greek translation of Topographies of Hellenism, translated by. P. Stogiannos. Athens: Scripta, 1998.
Book Manuscript In Progress
- “Greek in the Flesh: The Alternative Archaeologies of Eva Palmer Sikelianos,” a book-length cultural biography of the most influential western visitor to Greece after Lord Byron.
Edited Volumes
- “What These Ithakas Mean…”: Readings in Cavafy: coeditor with Keith Taylor and Laurie Talalay of an illustrated book, published by ELIA, the Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (February 2002). (Peter Green cited the book in the TLS as one of the best of 2002.)
- Greece: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (San Francisco: Whereabouts Press, 1997). This anthology of translated Greek prose presents Greece through site-specific stories that cover the country’s geographic range.
- Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives, co-edited with Marilyn Robinson Waldman and Müge Galin (Columbus: Papers in Comparative Studies 7, 1992).
Edited Journal Issues
- Thesis 11, “Mediterranean: Theories and Histories,” co-edited with Peter Murphy (No. 67, Nov. 2001).
Exhibit Catalog
- Women’s Fabric Arts in Greek America, 1894-1994 (Columbus, 1994).
Articles
- 1983 (Published in Greek) “C.P. Cavafy’s ‘The God Abandons Antony’ read as stage directions: Philologos 33 (Thessaloniki): 218-222.
- 1984 (Published in Greek) “Greek Poetry in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Hartis 13 (Athens): 100-111. 1987 “The Lost Center and the Promised Land of Greek Criticism,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies5:2 (October):175-190.
- 1990 “Modernist Criticism: Greek and American Defenses of the Autonomous Literary Text in the 1930s,” in Greek Modernism? Essays on the Critical and Literary Margins of a Movement, edited by Mary N. Layoun. New York: Pella. 21-57
- 1990 “Minor Field, Major Territories: Dilemmas in Modernizing Hellenism,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 8 (May): 35-63.
- 1990 “Surrealist Poetics of Identity and Andreas Embeirikos’s Defense of Man,” Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 6: 315-29.
- 1991 “Cultural Politics and Populist Uses of the Classics,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 10 (October): 191-214.
- 1992 “The Diaspora of the Novel,” Diaspora: Journal of Transnational Studies 1:1 (Spring): 131-46.
- 1992 “Raising the Stakes: The Politics of Stance,” co-authored with Marilyn Robinson Waldman and Müge Galin. In Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives, Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Artemis Leontis, and Müge Galin, eds. (Columbus: Papers in Comparative Studies 7). 3-14.
- 1992 “Think Globally, Act Locally?” co-authored with Diane Schaffer, Amy Shuman, and Sabra Webber. In Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives, Marilyn Robinson Waldman, Artemis Leontis, and Müge Galin, eds. (Columbus: Papers in Comparative Studies Vol. 7). 15-39.
- 1993 “A Genealogy of Experience: From Epistemology to Politics,” co-authored with Elizabeth J. Bellamy, The Yale Journal of Criticism 6:1 (Spring): 163-84.
- 1994 “George Seferis’ Myth of Return and Hellenism’s Suspended Homecoming.” In Homer. Ed. Katherine Callen King. (Garland Press). 265-83.
- 1995 (Published in Greek) “The Topological Approach.” Enteuktirion 31 (Summer): 65-71.
- 1995 “Fabric Arts in Greek America.” Laografia: A Journal of the International Greek Folklore Society 12:3 (May/June): 5-11.
- 1995 (Published in Greek) “Shall We Play Mrs. Rodalina?” (On the poetics of Eleni Vakalo). Elitrohos 6 (Summer): 21-29.
- 1995 (Published in Greek) “The Aesthetic of Place and the Search for the Native.” Semeion: 106-118.
- 1997 “Ambivalent Greece.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15 (May): 125-136.
- 1997 “Beyond Hellenicity: Can We Find Another Topos.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15 (October): 217-229.1997 “The Intellectual in Greek America.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 23 no. 2. 85-109.
- 1997 “Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization.” Diaspora 6:2 (Fall 1997): 179-194.
- 1998 “A Greek American Sense of Place.” Bulletin of Modern Greek Studies 30:2 (Fall): 58-61.
- 1999 “Strengthening Modern Greek Collections: Building US-Greek Library Partnerships.” Report on the Conference at the Library of Congress, April 29-30, 1999,” co-authored with Beau David Case. Bulletin of Modern Greek Studies 31:1 (Spring): 51-55.
- 1999 “Primordial Home, Elusive Home.” Thesis Eleven 59 (November 1999): 1-16.
- 1999 “The Bridge Between the Classical and the Balkan.” South Atlantic Quarterly 98.4 special issue, “After the Garden”(Fall): 625-31.
- 2001 “Mediterranean Theoria: A View from Delphi.” Thesis Eleven 67 (November): 101-17.
- 2003 “Exhibiting Cavafy” (in Greek). Proceedings from the Conference, I istoria os diakiveuma: morfes sigxronis istorikis koultouras (History as Heritage: Forms of Contemporary Historical Culture), organized by the editorial board of the international journal, Historein in Athens, Greece, 1 December, 2001. (CD ROM).
- 2003 “‘What Will We Have to Remember?’ Helen Papanikolas's Art of Telling.” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, special issue devoted to Helen Papanikolas. Volume 20 no. 2.
- 2005 “Greek Modernists’ Discovery of the Aegean, or How the Aegean Came to Occupy Greece’s Center.” Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline. Edited by John Cherry, Despina Margomenou, and Lauren E. Talalay. Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum Publication 2: 133-149.
- 2005 “Mediterranean Topographies before Balkanization.” The Mediterranean Reconsidered. Representations, Emergences, Recompositions. Edited by Mauro Peressini and Ratiba HadjMoussa. Canadian Museum of Civilization Mercury Series, Cultural Studies Paper 79:
- 2006 “A Day’s Journey: Constantinople, December 9, 1919.” Michigan Quarterly Review 45:1 (Winter): 73-98.
- 2007 “The Bridge Between the Classical and the Modern” reprinted in Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans, edited by Tatjana Aleksic (London: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Ltd.)
- 2008 “Greek American Identity: What Women’s Handwork Tells Us” in Hellenisms: Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modern Times, ed. Katerina Zacharia (Ashgate).
- 2008 “Eva Palmer’s Distinctive Journey” in Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism, and Travel, ed. Vassiliki Kolocotroni (Rodopi).2008 “An American in Paris, a Parsi in Athens” in Antiquity, Archaeology, and Greekness in Twentieth Century Greece, eds. Dimitris Plantzos and Dimitris Damaskos (Athens: Benaki Museum).
- 2009 “Archaeology in the Neighborhood: Views of the Ancient Agora and Other Ruins from Outside the Gate.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 27: (October): 415-24.
- 2011 “Griechische Tragödie und moderner Tanz: eine alternative Archäologie? in Ruinen in der Moderne: Archäologie und die Künste, hrsg. Eva Kocziszky (Bonn: Reimer Verlag, 2010).
Published in the Popular Press and on Websites
- “From Childhood Playground to Living Laboratory: The Aegean in the Eyes of Conservation Biologist Johannes Foufopoulos.” Special to The National Herald “Science and Technology Supplement,” January 2007.
- “Tryfon Tolides, poet and author of An Almost Pure Empty Walking exclusive interview.” http://www.lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/detail/0,2250,6740%255Farticle%255F51497,00.html
- “Traianos Gagos: Breathing New Life into Charred Ruins,” National Herald, “Greek-American Scientists,” December 6, 2008.
Book Reviews
- 1994 Helen Angelomatis-Tsougarakis, The Eve of the Greek Revival: British Travellers’ Perceptions of Early Nineteenth-Century Greece, in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies 12:1 (May): 154-57.
- 1996 Andonis Decavalles, Odysseus Elytis, in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 22:2: 129-132.
- 1998 Iakovos Kambanellis, Mauthausen, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies 12:2 (Fall 1998): 359-63.
- 2001 Edmund Keeley, Inventing Paradise: The Greek Journey 1937-1947, in the journal, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.
- 2000 Nancy Sultan, Exile and the Poetics of Loss in the Greek Tradition, in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
- 2008 “Tryfon Tolides’ Joyous Book of Sadness. A stunning debut collection on the poet’s transAtlantic between-ness.” National Herald Books, February 23, 2008. (Review of Tryfon Tolides, An Almost Pure Empty Walking. New York: Pengin, National Poetry Series, 2006).
- 2009 “Centenarian Vasiliki Scotes Remembers: 234 Poems and Songs and 37 Couplets Bring into View the Tapestry of a Vanishing but not Forgotten Greece,” The National Herald, “Books,” May, 2009. (Review of Vasiliki Scotes and Thomas E. Scotes, A Weft of Memory: A Greek Mother's Recollection of Folk Songs and Other Poems. New Rochelle: Aristide D. Caratzas, 2008).
- 2010 “Ο Ανάνιος του Κλείτορα ζει πια στο Google,” Review essay, George Economou, Ananios Of Kleitor: Poems & Fragments and their Reception from Antiquity to the Present (Shearsman Books 2009). The Athens Review of Books. Vol. 9, July-August 2010.
- 2011 “Griechische Tragödie und moderner Tanz: eine alternative Archäologie? in Ruinen in der Moderne: Archäologie und die Künste, hrsg. Eva Kocziszky (Bonn: Reimer Verlag, 2010).
Exhibits
- Fabric Arts in Greek America, 1894-1994. Curator. 1-5 September, 1994, Columbus, Ohio, supported by a grant from the Ohio Arts Council, Traditional Arts Program.
- Cavafy’s World. Co-Curator (with Lauren Talalay) of a set of exhibits at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan Museum of Art, and Hatcher Graduate Library Special Collections, 21 February through 5 May 2002, supported by a U-Michigan OVPR grant.
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