Dr. Karen R. Van Dyck

Professor, Kimon A. Doukas Chair

Columbia University
Department of Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies

Degrees

Ph.D. 1990 Oxford (Medieval and Modern Languages)
M.A. 1985 University of Thessaloniki (Modern Greek Literature)
B.A. 1983 Wesleyan University (Classics, College of Ltrs.)

Principal Publications

Literature between Languages and the Question of Translation, Eleventh Kimon A. Friar Lecture Pamphlets (America College of Greece, Athens, 2010, 61 pages)

The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009), co-edited by Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas, Edmund Keeley, and Karen Van Dyck

The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke. (Saint Paul, MN, Greywolf Press, 2009, 128 pages)

A Century of Greek Poetry: 1900-2000, co-edited with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine and Edmund Keeley (River Vale, NJ: Cosmos, 2004, 993 pages, bilingual edition).

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].

Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967, Reading Women Writing Series (Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 1998, 305 pages).

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).

 “The Language Question and the Diaspora,” in The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896), eds. Rodney Beaton and David Ricks (Ashgate, 2008), 189-98.

“Tracing the Alphabet in Psycharis’s Journey, ,” O Psiharis kai i epohi tu: zitimata glossas, logotehnias kai politismu, ed. Georgia Farinu (Institute for Modern Greek Studies, Manolis Triandafillides Foundation, 2005), 135-151.

"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.