Vangelis Calotychos, Ph.D.
Acting Director, Program in Hellenic Studies
& Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Assistant Professor of
Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics,
606
Tel: 212-854-6988
Fax: 212-854-7856
Electronic Address: [email protected]
Website of program: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/
Year Program Established: 1988
Approximate Number of Students Enrolled (per academic term): 60
Level of Program Offered (and when established):
Undergraduate level elective courses (1988)
Special concentration by petition (1988)
Graduate supervision (1997)
Official university minor (2000)
Full Time Faculty:
Karen Van Dyck, Professor
Mark Mazower, Professor (History)
Vangelis Calotychos, Assistant Professor
Neni Panourgia, Assistant Professor (Anthropology)
Elena Tzelepis, Lecturer
Sponsoring Departments/Administrative Entities:
Classics Department
Anthropology Department
History Department
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Comparative Literature
Does the program offer financial support to students? No
Does the institution offer financial support to students? Yes
Language:
Elementary Modern Greek (two terms)
Intermediate Modern Greek (two terms)
Cultural Studies I: Modern Greek for the Bilingual Speaker (one term)
Cultural Studies II: Topics Through Greek Film (one term)
Literature:
The Making of Modern Greek Poetry (in Greek)
Myth, History, and the Modern Greek Novel (in Greek)
Writing and Censorship (in Greek)
Diaspora, Translation and Greek
Erotokritos:Literature & Society in Renaissance
C.P. Cavafy: The Typography of Desire (in English)
Travelers, Exiles, Refugees in the Modern
Greek and Turkish Contacts: Literature
& Politics (in English)
History:
Modern Greece-Seminar
Southern Europe-Seminar
The Balkans-Seminar
Anthropology:
The Culture of Oedipus
Fluid Bodies
Additional Areas:
Independent Study; Senior Research Seminar