Modern Greek Program Faculty
VASSILIS LAMBROPOULOS (Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1980), C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, Department of Classical Studies and Program in Comparative Literature. Interests: modern Greek culture; the ancients and the moderns; ethics and politics; literature after cultural studies, theories of tragedy. Selected Books: The Rise of Eurocentrism; Literature as National Institution, The Text and Its Margins (co-editor).
email: vlambrop@umich.edu; telephone: 734-764-0126
ARTEMIS LEONTIS (Ph.D., Ohio State University, 1991), Associate Professor of Modern Greek and Coordinator of the Modern Greek Program. Interests: classics and modern literatures; 19th and 20th c. Greek literature, language, and culture; diaspora studies; travel literature and photography. Selected Books: Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland, Greece; A Traveler's Literary Companion (editor); Understanding Women: The Challenge of Cross Cultural Perspectives (co-editor); "What These Ithakas Mean..." Readings in Cavafy (co-editor).
email: aleontis@umich.edu; telephone: 734-936-6099
PANAGIOTIS PAFILIS (Ph.D., University of Athens), Lecturer of Modern Greek responsible for teaching beginning, intermediate, and advanced Modern Greek. His research interests focus on ecosystems in the Aegean and Mediterranean basin. He has participated in major research projects, attended international conferences, and published articles in scientific journals, encyclopedias, and the popular press. In addition to his scientific pursuits, he has a deep interest in modern Greek literature and music. Besides Greek, he speaks English, French, and Spanish.
email: pafman@umich.edu; telephone: 734-764-0112
Affiliated Faculty
JOHN FINE (Ph.D. Harvard). Professor of History. Interests: Medieval and modern Balkans, Byzantium. Selected Books: The early medieval Balkans : a critical survey from the sixth to the late twelfth century (1983); The late medieval Balkans : a critical survey from the late twelfth century to the Ottoman Conquest (1987).
Not on e-mail; 1029 Tisch Hall; telephone: 734-763-2231
JOHANNES FOUFOPOULOS (Ph.D. Wisconsin). Assistant Professor of Natural Resources in the School of Natural Resources and Environment. Interests: Evolutionary and conservation biology; Management of Natural Resources; Mediterranean Cultures and Natural Environment; Evolutionary biology; Cypriot population and conservation biology.
email jfoufop@umich.edu
TRAIANOS GAGOS (Ph.D., 1987, Durham), Professor of Papyrology and Greek; Archivist, Papyrology Collection, University Library; Associate Research Scientist, Kelsey Museum. Interests: Greek papyrology and palaeography; social, economic and cultural history of Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt and Near East; papyrology and archaeology; computer technology and the study of the ancient world. Selected Books: "Scanning the Past: A Modern Approach to Ancient Culture"; The Evolution of the English Bible (interactive CD; 1999 Best Book Award, University of Michigan Press); Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (co-editor); The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Vol. 61 (with M. Haslam and N.Lewis); Settling a Dispute: Toward a Legal Anthropology of Late Antique Egypt.
email: traianos@umich.edu; telephone: 734-647-3290 or 734-764-9369
JANET HART (Ph.D., Cornell). Associate Professor, Anthropology. Interests: Gender and social anthropology of protest, feminist thought, social movements, comparative nationalisms, politicalanthropology, anthropology of Southern Europe, oral history, methodology and critique. Selected Books: Cracking the code: allegory and political mobilization in the Greek resistance (1991); New voices in the nation: women and the Greek Resistance, 1941-1964 (1996).
email: janeth@umich.edu
KEITH TAYLOR Lecturer, English Language and Literature; Scholarly interests: American poetry and prose, Greek literature, the influence of the arts on the community. Taylor is the author of five small press collections of poetry and one of very short stories; he has also co-edited two volumes, one on imaginative responses to the Huron River, as well as "What These Ithakas Mean: Readings in Cavafy," with Artemis Leontis and Lauren Talalay. He coordinates the UM undergraduate program in creative writing.
email: keitay@umich.edu
Staff Profiles
KIMBERLY JOHNSON, Public Relations Coordinator of Classical Studies and the Modern Greek Program - She is responsible for event planning for Modern Greek, advertising and promotions for both Classical Studies and the Modern Greek Program, and general support. Her interests include graphic design, marketing, liturgical and modern dance, and choreography.
Email Kimberly Johnson
