MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Prof. Edmund L. Keeley

Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English Emeritus; Director Emeritus, Hellenic Studies

Princeton University

Department of English /Creative Writing /Hellenic Studies

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1952 Oxford (Comparative Literature)

B.A. 1949 Princeton (English)

II. Areas of Specialization

Creative Writing (Fiction, Translation)

English and American Literature

Modern Greek Literature

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Myth, History, and Contemporary Experience in Modern Greek, English, and American Poetry

Readings in Modern Greek Poetry (in translation)

Readings in Contemporary Greek Poetry (in Greek)

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Inventing Paradise: the Greek Journey, 1943-47. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1999.

The Essential Cavafy. With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1995.

Modern Greek Poetry: Voice and Myth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.

George Seferis: Collected Poems. With Philip Sherrard. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. Revised edition, 1996.

Cavafy's Alexandria. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1976. Revised edition: Princeton University Press, 1996.

C.P. Cavafy: Collected Poems. With Philip Sherrard and George Savidis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975. Revised edition, 1993.

V. Office Address

(use home address)

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(use home telephone and fax)

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

140 Littlebrook Road

Princeton, NJ 08540

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(609) 921-9290

(609) 921-6996 (F)

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

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