Ohio State University
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Areas of Specialization
Modern Greek Literature and Culture
Nationalism
Critical Theory
Aesthetics
Friendship
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Introductory and Intermediate Language
Advanced Language
Greek-American Society and Culture
Greek Prose
Greek Poetry
Advanced Seminar
Nationalism
World Literature
Classical tradition
Friendship
Prof. Gregory Jusdanis
Professor
Ohio State University
Department of Greek and Latin
Degrees
Ph.D. 1984 Birmingham (Modern Greek)Principal Publications
The Necessary Nation, Princeton University Press, 2001.
Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture: Inventing National Literature, Theory and History of Literature 81, University of Minnesota Press 1991. (Turkish translation, Metis, Istanbul, 1998.)
The Poetics of Cavafy: Textuality, Eroticism, History, Princeton University Press, 1987
Articles:
“Two Cheers for Aesthetic Autonomy.” Cultural Critique 2005.
“World Literature: The Unbearable Lightness of Thinking Globally.” Diaspora, 2004
“Farewell to the Classical: Excavations in Modernity” Modernism/modernity 2004 11:1, 37-54.
"Greek Romanticism: A Cosmopolitan Discourse.” In Romantic Poetry. Ed.
Angela Esterhammer. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2002 269-286.
Introduction to “Whither the Neohellenic,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 1997 15: 2 167-75.
"Acropolis Now?" boundary 1996 2 23, 1, 185-93.
"Is Postmodernism Possible Outside the West? The Case of Greece". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 11 (1987): 69-92.