MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. Vangelis Calotychos

Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Assistant Professor

Columbia University

Department of Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1993 Harvard University (Comparative Literature; English,Greek, French)

M.A. 1987 Ohio State University (English Literature)

B.A. 1985 University of Birmingham & University of Nice (French and Modern Greek)

II. Areas of Specialization

Modern Greek literature& culture (especially poetry and novel)

Comparative literature; Cultural Studies and critical theory

Cyprus: interdisciplinary studies

Balkan literature & film

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Elementary/Intermediate/Advanced Modern Greek

Introduction to Modern Greek Literature & Culture (inGreek)

Travelers, Exiles, Refugees in the Modern Mediterranean

Topics through Greek Film

Modern Greek Poetry/Poiesis

Narrative, History & Fiction in the Modern Greek Novel

Folktales (Paramythia) and the Short Story (in Greek)

Studies in Prose Genres: Novel Spaces of Hellenism,1750-1900

The Idea of Greece in the West, 1453-Present

20th-Century Balkans & ‘Balkanization’ through Literature & Film

Greek Diaspora: Odyssean Metaphors from Homer to Angelopoulos

From Classicism to Afrocentrism: Greece & Hellenism in the West

Irony, Satire, and Parody in Contemporary Greek Culture

Greek and Egyptian Crossings

Nationalisms and Literature

Studies in Prose Writing: Travel-Writing

Poets, Poetry, and Politics

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

Books:

with Patricia Felisa Barbeito, Menis Koumandareas, Their Smell Makes Me Want to Cry. Birmingham Modern Greek Translations Series, Birmingham, U.K.:Birmingham University,2004.

Modern Greece: A Cultural Poetics. Oxford & New York: Berg Publishers, 2003.

with Peter Hocknell, Yiannis Papadakis (eds.), Divisive Cities, Divided Cities: Nicosia. Special Issue. The Journal of Mediterranean Studies 8:2, 1998.

(Ed.), Cyprus and Its People: Nation, Identity and Experience in an Unimaginable Community(1955-1997). Boulder: Westview Press, May 1998.

V. Office Address

Columbia University

Program in Hellenic Studies

617 Hamilton Hall

New York, NY 10027

VI. Office Telephone(F)=Fax

(212) 854-6988

(212) 854-7856 (F)

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

Not given

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

Not given

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Last revised February 13, 2006

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