Dr. Maria Hnaraki

Director of Greek Studies
Associate Teaching Professor

Drexel University
Department of Culture & Communication

Degrees

Ph.D. 2002 Indiana University (Ethnomusicology/Folklore/Cultural Anthropology)

M.A. 1999 (Ethnomusicology/Folklore)

Diploma of Arts 1996 National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece (Music Studies)

Principal Publications

2011 "Souls of soil: Island identity through song". Invited book chapter in G. Baldacchino (ed.) Island Songs, Lanham MD, Scarecrow Press.

2010 "Music Passports and Customs: Ross Daly and the Cretan Lyra Transcending Borderlines". Invited chapter in the Thematic Journal: Tradition-Folklore-Identity. Sremski Karlovci: 41-68.

2010 "We Speak What We Eat: My Big Fat Greek Language". The 33rd: An Anthology. Volume 3: 239-243. College of Arts & Sciences: Drexel University; Department of English and Philosophy.

2010 "Baked Realities: Big Fat Greek Breads". Petis Propos Cullinaires 89: 35-66.

2009 "Speaking Without Words: Zorba's Dance". In the Bulletin of the Ethnographic Institute 57 (2): 25-35. Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA).

2008 "Bridging Kazantzakis's The Sacrifice and Kalomiris's The Masterbuilder". Invited chapter in Manolis Kalomiris: The Masterbuilder. Greek National Opera. Athens 2008, p. 59-62.

2007 Unfolding Ariadne's Thread. Athens: Kerkyra Publications.

2006 "Greece". The Ethnomusicologist's Cookbook. New York: Routledge Press, pp. 240-245.

2006 "Greece." The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. London: Greenwood Press, pp. 493-501.

2006 "Speaking Without Words: Cretan Dance at Weddings as Expression, Dialogue and Communication." Folklor Edebiyat 45 (1): 93-106.

2004 "Is King Zeus Alive? Dance Mythomusicologies in the Mountainous Crete." October 2004. Arxaiologia 92: 68-75.