Year Program Established: 1988
Approximate Number of Students Enrolled (per academic term): 100
Level of Program Offered (and when established):
Undergraduate level elective courses (1988)
Special concentration by petition (1988)
Graduate supervision (1997)
Special concentration (2000) in Modern Greek Studies (Columbia)
Minor in Modern Greek (Barnard)
Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature (Classics, IRWAG)
Stathis Gourgouris, Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature & Society; Acting Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies
Nikolas Kakkoufa, Lecturer in Modern Greek (Classics); Director of Undergraduate Studies in Hellenic Studies
Dimitrios Antoniou, Lecturer in Modern Greek in the Department of Classics
Paraskevi Martzavou, Lecturer in the discipline of Classics (Classics)
Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Associate Professor in Art History and Archaeology; Director of Hellenic Studies (Art History & Archaeology)
John Ma, Professor of Classics (Classics)
Constantina Zanou, Assistant Professor of Italian (Department of Italian)
Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of World Order Studies; Director, Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination (History)
Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies (Political Science)
Sponsoring Departments/Administrative Entities:
Classics Department
Anthropology Department
Blinken European Institute
Harriman Institute
History Department
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Institute for Comparative Literature and Society
Does the program offer financial support to students? No
Does the institution offer financial support to students? Yes
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Ioanna Messini-Skordas
Program Coordinator, Program in Hellenic Studies
Language and Culture:
Introduction to Modern Greek Language and Culture (two terms)
Intermediate Modern Greek (two terms)
Modern Greek for the Bilingual Speaker
Topics Through Greek Film
The World Responds to the Greeks: Modernity, Postcoloniality, Globality
Greece at the Crossroads: Area and Interdisciplinarity
Greece and the Modern Imagination
The Greek Islands: 1600-present: Literature, Culture, and their Mythologization
Literature:
Note: All seminars have a bilingual extra credit tutorial for students reading materials in the original
The Making of Modern Greek Poetry
Myth, History, and the Modern Greek Novel
Writing and Censorship
Diaspora, Translation and Greek America
Erotokritos:Literature & Society in Renaissance Crete
C.P. Cavafy: The Typography of Desire
Travelers, Exiles, Refugees in the Modern Mediterranean
The Greek Islands:1600-present: Literature, Culture & their Mythologization
Greek and Turkish Contacts: Literature & Politics
Immigration, Travel and Translation
The Politics of Poiein: Greek Poets and their Interlocutors
The Social Function of the Short Story
Greece and Turkey: Literature and Politics
History: Modern Greece-Seminar
Southern Europe-Seminar
The Balkans-Seminar
The Ottoman Empire
Anthropology:
The Culture of Oedipus
Fluent Bodies
Europe: From Empires to Nations
Athens Imagined
Gender Studies:
Gender and Ideology in the Modern Greek Novel
Women, Sex and Politics in Turn-of-the-Century Greece
Religion:
Orthodox Christianity
History of the Byzantine Empire
Additional Areas:
Independent Study; Senior Research Seminar