MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. Artemis S. Leontis

Adjunct Associate Professor and Coordinator of Modern Greek

University of Michigan

Classical Studies

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1991 Ohio State University (Comparative Studies in the Humanities, Greek, Critical Theory)

M.A. 1984 Ohio State University (Ancient Greek)

II. Areas of Specialization

Hellenism, Ancient and Modern

Comparative Literature

Diaspora, Greek Americans

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Greek American Culture

The Culture of Cntemporary Greece: Between Antiquity and Modernity

Modern Greek Prose

Modern Greek Poetry

Literature of Travel

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

Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland. Cornell University Press, 1995 (and in Greek translation, published by Scripta Press, 1999).

Editor. Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion. Whereabouts Press, 1997.

Co-Editor. Special issue of Thesis II on the Mediterranean. With Peter Murphy (forthcoming 2001).

Co-editor. Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives. With Marilyn Waldman and Muge Galin. Papers in Comparative Studies 7 (1992).

"Primordial Home Elusive Home". Thesis II, issue on "Agnes Heller: Contingency, Personality, Ethics", No. 59 (Nov. 1999): 1-16.

"The Bridge Between the Classical and the Balkan ". South Atlantic Quarterly, issue titled "After the Garden", Vol. 99 (2000).

V. Office Address

University of Michigan

Dept. of Classical Studies

2160 Angell Hall

435 S. State St.

Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1003

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(734) 936-6099

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

2014 Geddes Ave

Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1716

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(734) 994-8834

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

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