Kimon A. Doukas Professor of MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

(212) 854-2189
vandyck@columbia.edu
515 Hamilton Hall

On Leave AY 22-23
Curriculum Vitae
Short Bio
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Research Interests

Modern Greek and Greek Diaspora literature
Translation Studies
Gender Studies
Poetry

Karen Van Dyck received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wesleyan, Aristotle University (Thessaloniki), and Oxford. She created and directed the interdepartmental Hellenic Studies Program (1988-2016) and is a member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality, and Gender (IRWSG), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS) and the Istanbul Global Center. Current research interests include translation, multilingualism, typography, censorship and the arts, Greek Diaspora literature and the geography of language.
Her books include Kassandra and the Censors (Cornell, 1998; Greek translation, Agra, 2002);The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding(Wesleyan, 1998),The Scattered Papers of Penelope(Anvil, 2008; Graywolf, 2009),Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (Penguin, 2016; NYRB, 2017; Agra, 2017) and the co-edited anthology,The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2009). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail,The Guardian,LARB, Poiitiki and Tender. Here are some videos that the poets involved with her book,Austerity Measures, have created, and here is an interview about the Greek edition of the anthology.Here is a piece about her translation of Margarita Liberaki's Three Summers (NYRB, 2019), reissued in the Penguin European Classics, with a new introduction by Polly Samson (2021). Her honorary doctorate speech on translation and migration at the University of Athens on March 23, 2022, can be found here. She recently published Lifted, a bilingual collection of poetry that explores the ethics of making poems out of other people’s prose and translations as it tells the story of a girl becoming a writer and translator (Agra, 2022, trans. Eleni Bourou).

Selected Publications

Three Summers (NYRB, 2019)
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (Penguin, 2016)
The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, co-edited with Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas and Edmund Keeley (Norton, 2010, 692 pages).
The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Graywolf, 2009)
Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967 (Cornell, 1998)
The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections of Poetry by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan, 1998)

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