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Areas of Specialization
Modern Greek Literature
Pontic Greek Folktales
Pontic Greek Theater
Exilic Literature
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Modern Greek Language
Literature of Exiles (about one-third of the course is devoted to Greek works)
Dr. Patricia Fann Bouteneff
Lecturer
St. Vladimir’s Seminary
Department of Modern Languages
Degrees
D. Phil. 1992 Oxford University (Modern Greek Literature)
Principal Publications
Sixty-five Stories from the Pontos: Folktales from the Dawkins Archives (in preparations).
Exiles on Stage: The Pontic Greek Theater 1922-1972. Athens: Epitrope Pontiakon Meleton. 2002.
“Woman to Woman: Despoina Fostiropoulou and Her Narrator.” Women in the Ottoman Balkans, ed. Amila Buturovic and Irvin C. Schick (forthcoming).
"Greek Folktales from Imera, Pontos." Fabula 44 (3/4) (2003): 292-310.
"Exiles on Stage: Greek Pontian Theater 1922-1972." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 14 (1996): 47-65.
"The Bridge Rebuilt: The Myth of the Masterbuilder in Folksong & Theater". Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 9 (1993): 267-279.
"Bold Men, Fair Maids and Affronts to their Sex: the Characterization and Structural Roles of Men and Women in the Escorial Digenis Akrites". With S. Ekdawi & E. Philokyprou. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 17 (1993): 25-42.
"In-Between States: The Uses of Liminality in the Pontic Theater". Modern Greek Studies Yearbook 8 (1992): 273-291.
"The Pontic Myth of Homeland: Cultural Expressions of Nationalism and Ethnicism in Pontos and Greece, 1870-1990." Journal of Refugee Studies 4.4 (1991): 340-356.
"Pontic Performance: Minority Theater vs. Greek Identity." Journal of Modern Greek Studies 9 (1991): 107-122.