Dept. of Classics
125 Dauer Hall P.O.Box 117435
Gainesville, FL 32611-7435
tel. 352-273-3796
Fax 352-846-0297
Areas of Specialization
Ancient Greek literature, especially drama
Early Byzantine and Modern Greek language and literature
Performance, reception, and gender studies
Cultural history of Greece since 1821
Language instruction and pedagogy
Study abroad programs in Greece
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Modern Greek Language (beginning through advanced)
Byzantine Greek: Readings in Byzantine Greek Literature
Critical Introductions to Greek Theater and Cinema
Modern Greek Interpretations of Ancient Drama
The Ancient City in the Modern Greek Artistic Imagination
America, Antiquity, and Modern Greece
Dr. Gonda A. H. Van Steen
Cassas Chair in Greek Studies
University of FloridaDepartment of Classics and Center for Greek Studies
Degrees
Ph.D., 1995 Princeton University (Department of Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies)
M.A., 1992 Princeton University (Classics and Hellenic Studies)
B.A., University of Ghent, Belgium (Classical Philology)
Teaching Certificate, University of Ghent (Classical Philology)
Principal Publications
Forthcoming book: Theater of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands (expected 2011)
Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010)
Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece. Princeton University Press, 2000
Guest editor JMGS 20, no. 2 (2002): "Greek Worlds, Ancient and Modern."
Articles on ancient, Byzantine, and modern Greek literature (especially drama), Greek feminism, and Greek numismatics.
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