Modern Greek Studies Association

Dr. Maria Hnaraki

Director of Greek Studies
Associate Teaching Professor
Official Representative of the World Council of Cretans & Greeks Abroad

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

2013 Sing In Me, Muse, and Through Me Tell the Story, Zorba Press, Ithaca

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.