CURRICULUM VITAE Updated 14 August 2017 Gonda A. H. VAN STEEN University of Florida Tel. dept.: 352-273-3796 Department of Classics fax dept.: 352-846-0297 Center for Greek Studies 125 Dauer Hall, P.O. Box 117435 Email: [email protected] Gainesville, FL 32611-7435 [email protected] Chronology of Education 1992-1995, Ph.D., Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University 1990-1992, M.A., Classics and Hellenic Studies, Princeton University 1984-1986, M.A., Classical Philology and National Teaching Certificate in Classics, Ghent University, Belgium 1982-1984, B.A., Classical Philology, Ghent University Ph.D. dissertation: “Aristophanes in Modern Greece: From Textual Reception to Performance Dialectics.” Profs. R. Martin, J. Ober, and D. Gondicas, directors Undergraduate thesis: “The Rhetorical Tradition of Ekphrasis in Greek Literature of the Hellenistic through Byzantine Period: The Descriptive Epigrams of the Anthologia Graeca.” Prof. H. Van Looy, director Major Fields and Interests Ancient Greek language and literature, especially drama Modern Greek language, literature, history, and memory Modern productions of classical Greek theater: performance criticism, reception, authoritarianism and censorship, gender studies, theater and its impact on the history of ideas, cultural study and criticism Western travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, Philhellenism and Orientalism Greek archaeology, Athenian topography Study abroad programs in Greece, Modern Greek Studies programs in North America Chronology of Employment - 2012 - present, Andronicos Nicholas Cassas Chair in Greek Studies and Full Professor, Dept. of Classics and Center for Greek Studies, University of Florida UF Research Foundation Professor, 2016-2019 Affiliate Professor with the Center for European Studies, University of Florida - 2009 - 2012, Andronicos Nicholas Cassas Chair in Greek Studies and Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics and Center for Greek Studies, University of Florida Affiliate Associate Professor with the Center for European Studies, University of Florida Courses taught at the UF 2009 - present: CLA 6930: The Reception of Sophocles LNW 6935: Proseminar GRW 6386: Greek Historians GRW 6316: Greek Tragedy GRW 6317: Ancient Greek Comedy GRW 4380: Greek Historians GRK 4905: Advanced Modern Greek GRK 4300: Modern Greek Literature since 1830 (in the original and in translation) CLA 3930: America and Antiquity EUS 3937: Reading Modern Greece through Theater (through the Center for European Studies) GRK 2200: Intermediate Modern Greek I GRK 2201: Intermediate Modern Greek II GRK 1130: Beginning Modern Greek I - 2002- 2009, Associate Professor, Dept. of Classics, and director Modern Greek Program, UA Director Ancient Greek Program since 2005 - 1997-2002, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, and director Modern Greek Program, UA 1 Main Undergraduate Advisor of the UA Modern Greek Program since 1997 Courses taught at the UA 1997-2009: - Classics 250A: Greek literature in translation - Classics 510A: Methods in Classical Studies: philology component and history of classical scholarship - Classics 596A: Greek literature and archaeology: the ancient city - Classics 596A: Greek papyrology: methods and approaches (team-taught with Traianos Gagos, Onassis Senior Visiting Scholar) - Greek 103 and 104: elementary modern Greek language I and II - Greek 203: intermediate modern Greek language I - Greek 101: elementary classical Greek - Greek 201 and 202: intermediate classical Greek I and II - Greek 402/502: classical Greek reading course (Demosthenes, On the Crown) - Greek 402/502: classical Greek reading course (Aristophanes’ Frogs; the development of comic theory) - Greek 422/522: readings in Greek drama (Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound; Euripides’ Bacchae; revisionist modern stage interpretations of the classics) - Greek 430/530: readings in Greek historians (Plutarch’s Parallel Lives) Latin 400: Cicero, Pro Caelio, and selections from Catullus and Sallust Latin 401/501: Latin reading course (letters of Seneca, Cicero, and Pliny) Latin 426/526: Roman historians: readings from Livy Freshman Colloquium 195A: Greco-Roman antiquity: modern interpretations of ancient drama - Trad 104: lower-division General Education course “America and Antiquity” - Many independent studies in Modern Greek and Classics - 1997 summer, faculty member in residence, Deep Springs College Courses taught: - Readings from the New Testament in Greek - A Critical Introduction to Greek Cinema - 1995-97, James Hutton Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, Cornell University Courses taught: - Initiation to Greek Culture (217): epic, the Presocratics, drama, Plato, Aristotle - Modern Greek (112): second-semester language instruction - Byzantine Greek (402): readings in Byzantine Greek literature - Intermediate Latin (205.1): readings in Latin prose Publications Scholarly book in progress: Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? Book proposal and sample chapters under peer review by university press Scholarly book: Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974. Classical Presences series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015). 376 pp. Reviewed by: - K. Kornetis, Journal of Greek Media & Culture 3, no. 1 (2017) 125-130 - P. Mackridge, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 40, no. 2 (2016) 330-331 - W. Puchner, Parabasis 14, no. 1 (2016) 80-85 - W. Puchner, Südost-Forschungen 73 (2014; published in Nov. 2015) (Regensburg) Featured in radio interview on Athina 9.84 FM (17 Dec. 2014) Scholarly book: Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands. Classical Presences series (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). 354 pp. Reviewed by: - W. Puchner, Parabasis 12, no. 2 (2014) 264-271 - L. Coo, The Anglo-Hellenic Review 45 (2012) 38-39 - A. J. Goldwyn, Opuscula: Annual of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome 5 (2012) 187-188 - B. van Zyl Smit, Classical Journal Online (6 August 2012) - M. Karambini-Iatrou, Eneken 23 (Thessaloniki: ed. Giannopoulos) (Jan. - March 2012) 214-220 2 - A. Bakogianni, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 132 (2012) 294-296 - S. Perris, The Classical Review 62, no. 1 (2012) 34-36 - M. Heath, Greece & Rome 58, no. 2 (2011) 245 - D. G. Wright, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.09.56 (September 2011) Featured in the Greek newspaper Avgi (5 August 2012) based on interview of 11 June 2012 Scholarly book: Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010). 251 pp. Liberating Hellenism is a book in which French travel writing, literary fiction, antiquarianism, drama, and nineteenth-century Western and Eastern geopolitics merge. Comte de Marcellus was a French traveler to Ottoman Constantinople in the 1820s: he carried off the Venus de Milo but also witnessed a secretive production of Aeschylus’ Persians that prefigured the Greek War of Independence. Thus, Liberating Hellenism explores the nineteenth-century links between literature, archaeology, and cross-cultural contact by focusing on two key historical episodes that have generally escaped the notice of modern Greece, the Near East, and their observers alike. In the midst of the highly charged context of West-East confrontation and with fundamental cultural and political issues at stake, the analysis of these important cultural encounters invites the reader to reexamine the age-old conflict and to redraw the outlines of mutually dependent Hellenism and Orientalism. Shortlisted for the 2011 Runciman Award Reviewed by: - A. Bakogianni, The Journal of Hellenic Studies 131 (2011) 288-289 - W. Puchner, “How Politicized Was the Greek Prerevolutionary Theater? A Reassessment” (in Greek). Nea Hestia 170, no. 1849 (November 2011) 747-764 [752, 758-764] - W. Puchner, Parabasis 11 (2013) 329-340 - A. Muse, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.05.06 (May 2011) Scholarly book: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000). 284 pp. Book prize: 2000 John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society Cover review by Peter Green, “Aristophanes Resurrected,” The Times Literary Supplement, 28 April 2000 Also reviewed by: - W. Puchner, Parabasis 5 (2004) 416-419 - V. D. Mandeli, Kathimerini, 14 December 2004 - M. C. English, Classical World 95, no. 2 (2002) 206-207 - P. Michelakis, The Classical Review 52, no. 1 (2002) 199-200 - J. Taylor, The Anglo-Hellenic Review 25 (2002) 21-22 - H. Foley, European Studies Journal 19, no. 2 (2002) - K. Gounaridou, Comparative Drama 36, nos. 1-2 (2002) 219-222 (online: 22 March 2002) - E. J. M. Greenwood, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2001.08.05 (August 2001) - O. Taxidou, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 25 (2001) 271-273 - H. Van Looy, L'Antiquité Classique 70 (2001) 556-557 - M. Kotzamani, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 18, no. 2 (2000) 453-455 - T. A. Pallen, Choice 38, no. 1 (2000) 123 Featured in radio program on Cosmos FM (15 Oct. 2002) and in the Greek newspapers Kathimerini (11 Feb. 2001) and Ta Nea (3 May 2000) Editorships - Co-editor (with James Faubion and Eugenia Georges from the Department of Anthropology at Rice University) of “Greece Is Burning” for Hot Spots, the online forum of the journal Cultural Anthropology (April 2016: co-authored introduction, co-edited contributors from 10 specialists in the field) http://culanth.org/fieldsights/865-greece-is-burning - Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism 164 (Gale, Cengage Learning, 2014), Editorial Advisor on entry “The Frogs, Aristophanes,”