MGSA Survey of Graduate Students

Mieke Penninck

Ph.D. Student

Ghent University (Belgium)

Department of Greek

 

I. Degrees

M.A. 2003 Ghent University (Literary Studies)

M.A. 2001 Ghent University (Classics)

B.A. 1999  Ghent University (Classics)

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Digenis Akritis

Intertextuality

Conventions of genre

           

III. Principal Presentations and Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Penninck Mieke, “Two heroes, two lives in the Grottaferrata Digenes Akrites” to appear in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies.

 

Penninck Mieke, “Irony in the Grottaferrata Digenis Akritis”, Presentation at the conference ‘Neograeci Medii Aevi VI: Proimi neoelliniki dimodis grammateia, glossa, paradosi kai poiitiki’, Ioannina 28 september – 2 october 2005.

 

Penninck Mieke, “Ambiguous liminality. The case of the saint and the daughter of Aplorravdis (Digenis Akritis, Grottaferrata V)” Presentation at the Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Chicago, November 2005.

IV. Office Address

Vakgroep Latijn en Grieks

Universiteit Gent

Blandijnberg 2

9000 Gent

Belgium

 

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

0032 9 264 79 70

Fax: 0032 9 264 41 64

 

Electronic Address

[email protected]

V. Home Address

Windekekouter 71

9860 Scheldewindeke

Belgium

 

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

0032 9 362 71 17

 

VI. Dissertation/Thesis working title and topic

"A literary analysis of Digenis Akritis according to the Grottaferrata version" In this dissertation, I attempt to compare the protagonist of this text to one text-internal model of behaviour, namely his father, and two intertextual ones: a saint and a novelistic hero. The final scope is a reconsideration of the protagonist’s heroic status.

VII. Comments and Additional Information

 

Last revised December 7, 2005

 

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