MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. Peter Bien

Professor Emeritus

Dartmouth College

Department of English

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1961 Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature)

M.A. 1957 Columbia University (English and Comparative Literature)

B.A. 1952 Haverford College (Music)

II. Areas of Specialization

Nikos Kazantzakis

Modern British Prose

20th Century Greek Language and Literature

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Odysseus Across the Centuries

Joyce and Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Greek Today (with Dimitri Gondicas, John Rassias, Andromache Karanika, Chrysanthi Yiannakou-Bien). Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 2004.

Kazantzakis: Politics of the Spirit. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Published in Greek translation in 2001 by the University Presses of Crete.

Three Generations of Greek Writers: Introductions to Cavafy, Kazantzakis, Ritsos. Athens: Efstathiadis, 1983.

Antithesis kai Synthesis sten Poiese tou Gianne Ritsou. Athens: Kedros, 1980.

Myrivilis, Stratis. Life in the Tomb. Translated by Peter Bien. Lebanon, NH: University Press of New England, 1977. River Vale, NJ: Cosmos Publications, 2004.

Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Last Temptation of Christ. Translated by Peter Bien. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.

V. Office Address

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

80 Lyme Road, #171

Hanover, NH 03755

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(603) 643-5524

(603) 643-2072 (F)

VII. Comments and Additional Information

Working on volume 2 of Kazantzakis, Politics of the Spirit, and also on an edition of the selected letters of Kazantzakis in English translation.

Summer address (June 15 – September 5): P.O. Box 32, Riparius, NY 12862. Telephone 518 251-2372.

e-mail: [email protected]

Last revised May 28, 2004

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