HUM 577
1600 Holloway Avenue
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132
(415) 338-0932 (F)
Areas of Specialization
Greek, British and American Modernism
Literature of the Hellenic Diaspora and Greek American Literature
Literary Theory and Nationalism
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced Modern Greek Language
Introduction to Modern Greek Literature
Modern Greek Poetry (Cavafy, Seferis, Elytis, Ritsos)
Kazantzakis
Greek American Literature
Athens: Biography of a City
The National Poem
Aesthetics and Beauty (M.A. seminar in Comp. Lit.)
Nation, Memory and Diaspora (M.A. seminar in Comp. Lit.)
British and American Travel Literature to Greece
Professor Martha Klironomos
Director,
Center for Modern Greek Studies,
The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair
San Francisco State University
Degrees
Ph.D. 1993 Ohio State University (English with specialization in Modern Greek Literature and Literary Theory)
M.A. 1987 McGill University (English)
B.A. 1982 Joint Honours in English and Classics (Modern Greek)
Principal Publications
2007 Essay entry on the 1963 Nobel Prize Laureate: "George Seferis." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 322 on Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature, Part 4: Quasimodo-Yeats. Eds. Matthew J. Bruccoli and Richard Layman. 146-156.
2007 "Early Twentieth-Century British Women Travellers to Greece: Contextualizing the Example of Virginia Woolf." Proceedings from the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf, College of Lewis and Clark, Portland, Oregon, June 9-12, 2005. Literature Compass 4/2: 473-485. (on-line journal by Blackwell Publishing. Web-site: www.blackwell-compass.com). Doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00401.x.
2006 "The Status of Modern Greek Studies in Higher Education: A Case Study on the West Coast." Special issue on "The Status of Modern Greek Studies in Higher Education in English-Speaking Countries," Ed. Stratos Constantinidis. Journal of Modern Greek Studies Vol. 24, No. 2 (May): 147-159.
2002 "Ancient anamnesis, National mneme in the Poetry of Giorgos Seferis." Special issue on "Greek Worlds, Ancient and Modern." Guest Editor: Gonda Van Steen. Journal of Modern Greek Studies Vol. 20, No. 2 (0ctober): 215-239.
2001 "The Poetics of Belonging: The Topos of 'Home' in Smaro Kamboureli's Journal in the second person." Women Writers of the Greek Diaspora: Proceedings. First Conference. Eds., Helen Nickas and Marianna Spanaki. Athens: Publication of the General Secretariat for Hellenes Abroad. 107-113; 236-241.
2001 "Literature by Writers of Hellenic Origin in Canada: An Overview." Women Writers of the Greek Diaspora: Proceedings. First Conference. Eds., Helen Nickas and Marianna Spanaki. Athens: Publication of the General Secretariat for the Greeks Abroad. 86-94; 218- 225.
1992 "George Theotokas' Free Spirit: Reconfiguring Greece's Path towards Modernity." Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 18.1: 79-98.
2000 "H mneme sto ergo tou Giorgou Seferi." ["Memory in the Work of Giorgos Seferis."] Special issue on Giorgos Seferis. Ed. and trans. by Vrasidas Karalis. Diabazo, Greek Monthly Review of Books, no. 410 (September): 105 -111.