MGSA Survey of North American Institutions

Columbia University

New York, New York


I. Acting Director and Address


Vangelis Calotychos, Ph.D.

Acting Director, Program in Hellenic Studies

& Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Assistant Professor of Hellenic Studies, Department of Classics, Columbia University

606 Hamilton Hall,

1130 Amsterdam Avenue,

New York, NY10027

Tel: 212-854-6988

Fax: 212-854-7856

Electronic Address: [email protected]

 

Website of program: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/hellenicstudies/


II. Profile of Modern Greek Studies Program

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)


III. Profile of Faculty

Full Time Faculty:

Karen Van Dyck, Professor

Mark Mazower, Professor (History)

Vangelis Calotychos, Assistant Professor

Neni Panourgia, Assistant Professor (Anthropology)

Elena Tzelepis, Lecturer


IV. Administrative and Financial Resources

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


V. Courses Offered

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 America (in English)

Erotokritos:Literature & Society in Renaissance Crete (in Greek)

C.P. Cavafy: The Typography of Desire (in English)

Travelers, Exiles, Refugees in the Modern Mediterranean (in English)

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

Europe: From Empires to Nations

 

Additional Areas:

Independent Study; Senior Research Seminar


Information last updated 2/13/2006
Web page last revised 2/13/2006

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