Program in Hellenic Studies
617 Hamilton Hall
New York, NY 10027
(212) 854-7856 (F)
Areas of Specialization
19th and 20th Century Greek and Greek American Literature and Culture
Translation Studies
Gender Studies
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Introduction to Modern Greek Language and Culture
Myth, History, and the Modern Greek Novel
The Making of Modern Greek Poetry
Diaspora, Translation and Greek America
Gender in Ancient and Modern Greece
Censorship and Writing
Erotokritos: Literature & Society in Renaissance Crete (in Greek)
C.P. Cavafy: The Typography of Desire (in English)
Greek Diaspora and the Language Question
Translation between Literature and Anthropology
Dr. Karen R. Van Dyck
Professor, Kimon A. Doukas Chair
Columbia University
Department of Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies
Degrees
Ph.D. 1990 Oxford (Philosophy)
M.A. 1985 University of Thessaloniki (Modern Greek Literature)
B.A. 1983 Wesleyan University (Classics, College of Ltrs.)
Principal Publications
Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967, Reading Women Writing Series (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1998, 305 pages).
I Kassandra kai i logokrites sti neoelliniki poiisi (1967-1990), trans. Palmyra Ismiridou (Athens: Agra Publications, 2002, 458 pages) [Translation of Kassandra and the Censors into Greek, updated and with a new introduction].
A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900-2000, co-edited with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine and Edmund Keeley (River Vale, NJ: Cosmos, forthcoming 2003, 993 pages, bilingual edition).
The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections of Poetry by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Middletown: Wesleyan UP, 1998, 294 pages, bilingual edition).
Three Summers, a novel by Margarita Liberaki [psathina kapela] (Athens: Kedros, 1995, 320 pages).
Insight Guide: Greece (Singapore: Prentice Hall Press, 1988, 365 pages).
"Tracing the Alphabet in Psycharis’s Journey," Proceedings of the Psycharis Conference, ed. Georgia Farinou, University of Thessaloniki, Oct. 14-16, 2004 (Ministry of Culture, forthcoming).
"Greek Literature, the Diaspora, and the Sea" Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Maritime History, ed. Gelina Harlaftis, Ionian University, Corfu, June 22-27, 2004 (Nefeli, forthcoming).
"Diaspora, metafrasi kai i gunaikeia logotehnia” /“Diaspora, Translation, and Women's Writing," Ellinides singrafeis tis diaspora/ Women Writers of the Greek Diaspora, Dec. 19-20, 1998 (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Athens, 2001), 49-65, 187-200.
"Greek Poetry Elsewhere," Gramma: Special Issue on Contemporary Greek Poetry, eds. Michalis Chryssanthopoulos, Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou, Lizy Tsirimokou, Vol. 8, 2000, 81-98.
“Avant-garde Translation: A Conversation with Diamanda Galas,” CONNECT: Special Issue on Translation, eds. Rosalind C. Morris and Radhika Subramaniam, Vol. 1, 2000, 51-60.
“Bruised Necks and Crumpled Petticoats: What’s Left of Myth in Contemporary Greek Women’s Poetry,” in Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Greek Poetry, ed. Peter Mackridge (London: Frank Cass Publishers, 1996), 121-30.
“Reading Between Worlds: Contemporary Greek Women’s Writing and Censorship,” Censorship Issue, PMLA 109:1 (January 1994), 45-60.
“Introduction” (as guest editor) and “The Sexual Politics of Babel,” Translation Issue, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 8:2 (Oct. 1990), 169-171, 173-182.