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Brown University
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Areas of Specialization
20th Century Modern Greek Literature
European Modernism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
Mediterranean Contact Zones
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Greek Modernism in Context
Myth in Modern Greek and World Literature
Balkan Cinema: Shooting War, Conflict and Identity
Odysseus in Literature
Imagining the Other, Constructing the Self
Poetry and Music
Modernism: From Paris to Athens
Literature and Resistance: Revolt in the Time of Oppression
Levantine Cities: Alexandria, Istanbul, Athens
Literature and the Idea of the Nation
Modern Identities and the Mediterranean
Oedipus in Theory and Literature
Modernism and its Others
Mediterranean Islands
Western Travelers in Greece
The Life and Works of Nikos Kazantzakis
The Life and Works of Odysseus Elytis
Special Topics in Modern Greek: Greek Cinema
Masterpieces of Modern Greek Literature
Introduction to Modern Greek Lit. I -1821-1970's (in Greek)
Introduction to Modern Greek Lit. II -1980's-1990's (in Greek)
Dr. Marinos Pourgouris
Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature
Brown UniversityDepartment of Comparative Literature, Modern Greek Studies Program
Degrees
Ph.D. 2005 Rutgers University (Comparative Literature)
Principal Publications
“Ulysses Gaze: The Myth of Balkan History.” Mythistory and Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans. Ed. Tatjana Aleksic. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2007.
The Avant-Garde and the Margin: New Territories of Modernism. Eds. Marinos Pourgouris & Sanja Bahun-Radunovic. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholar’s Press, 2006.
“Topographies of Greek Modernism” (In The Avant-Garde and the Margin).
"Tou Mythou kai tis Armyras" Athens: Dodoni, 2002
“Odysseus Elytis.” Nobel Prize Laureates in Literature (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 329). Thomson Gale, 2007. 422-432.
“Nikos Kazantzakis, Nietzsche, and the Myth of the Hero.” In International Fiction Review, Vol. 32, No. 1 & 2, 2005.
“Nietzsche Contra Lukács: Politics of History and Epic Conceptions” in Nietzsche-Studien, Bound 32, Berlin Germany.
“Gia Mia Nea Poiitiki Aisthitiki: I Ennoia tis Ellinikotitas kai i Theoria ton Analogion stin Poiisi tou Elyti" Enteuktirio, Vol. 70 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Web Links
Marinos Pourgouris Faculty Profile at Brown
Department of Comparative Literature Profile
The Avant-Garde and the Margin (book)
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