Modern Greek Studies Association


Columbia University

Profile

Year Program Established: 1988

Approximate Number of Students Enrolled (per academic term): 85

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)

Faculty

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; Director of the Program in Hellenic Studies

Nikolas Kakkoufa, Senior 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)

Resources

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

Department of Classics
Columbia University
617 Hamilton Hall
1130 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY 10027

212 851 0297
Fax: 212-854-7856


Hellenic Studies
SNFPHI

Eleni Gizas Program Coordinator

Phone: 212.851.0297

Courses Offered

Language

Elementary Modern Greek I&II
Intermediate Modern Greek I&II
The Hybrid Voice: Comparative Diasporas and Translation
Greece Today: Language, Literature, and Culture (in Greek)
Retranslation: Worlding C. P. Cavafy

Literature & Cultural Studies:

Multilingual Worlds: Translation, Gender and the Greek Diaspora
Dictatorships and their Afterlives
Hellenism and the Topographical Imagination
Thessaloniki Down the Ages
Picturing Antigone
Topics in Greek Film
Mobility and Enclosure, Statelessness and Democracy
The Greek Revolution of 1821 and its Legacies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Primary Sources
Greek Poets and their Interlocutors
The Ottoman Past in the Greek Present

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