MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. Helen D. Kolias

Senior Lecturer

Cornell University

Department of Classics

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1983 Binghamton University (SUNY), Comparative Literature

M.A. 1979 Binghamton University (SUNY), Comparative Literature

B.A. 1964 Wayne State University, Liberal Arts (English)

II. Areas of Specialization

Modern Greek Language, Literature, and Culture

Greek Women Writers

Epic Poetry

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Modern Greek (two-semester sequence)

Intermediate Modern Greek

Readings in Modern Greek Literature

Modern Greece in Fiction and Film

Memory and Contemporary Writing (Modern Greek component)

Portraits of Women in the Hellenic World (Modern Greek component)

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

Rhea Galanaki. I Shall Sign as Loui. Transl. Helen Dendrinou Kolias. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 2000.

Readings in Modern Greek Literature for Intermediate and Advanced Students of Modern Greek. New Rochelle, NY: Aristide D. Caratzas Publisher, Melissa Media Associates, 2000.

Elisavet Moutzan-Martinengou. My Story. Translated with additional selected fragments. With introduction, notes, and an afterword. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1989.

"Empowering the Minor: Translating the Autobiography of Elisavet Moutzan-Martinengou." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 8.2 (Fall 1990): 213-221.

"Greek Women Poets and the Language of Silence."  Translation Perspectives IV (1987): 99-112.

Contributions to The Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers (1991), Greece: A Traveler’s Literary Companion (1997), Greece in Modern Times (2000), and Who’s Who in Contemporary Women’s Writing (2001).

V. Office Address

Cornell University

Department of Classics

Goldwin Smith Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-3201

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(607) 255-3354

(607) 254-8899 (F)

Electronic Address

[email protected] or [email protected]

VI. Home Address

216 Garden Lane

Vestal, NY 13850

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(607) 754-3489

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Information revised April 21, 2004
Web page revised April 21, 2004

 

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