MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Professor Martha Klironomos

Director, Center for Modern Greek Studies, The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair,

San Francisco State University

I. 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)

II. Areas of Specialization

Greek, British and American Modernism

Literature of the Hellenic Diaspora and Greek American Literature

Literary Theory and Nationalism

III. 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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

V. Office Address

Center for Modern Greek Studies

HUM 577

1600 Holloway Avenue

San Francisco State University

San Francisco, CA 94132

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(415) 338-1892

(415) 338-0932 (F)

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

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Home Telephone (F)=Fax

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VII. Comments and Additional Information

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