January 23, 2010

Greek Drama in 19th Century America
1900-1970


'Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy'

Vassilis Lambropoulos (Ph.D., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 1980), C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek, Department of Classical Studies and Department of Comparative Literature. Interests: modern Greek culture; the ancients and the moderns; ethics and politics; literature after cultural studies, theories of tragedy. Selected Books: The Tragic Idea; The Rise of Eurocentrism; Literature as National Institution, The Text and Its Margins (co-editor).

Lambropoulos’ authored books are Literature as National Institution: Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism (1988),The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation (1993), and The Tragic Idea (2006). He has co-edited the volumes The Text and Its Margins: Post-Structuralist Approaches to Twentieth-Century Greek Literature (1985) and Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology (1987), and a special issue of the journal October, "The Humanities as Social Technology" (1990). He edited “Ethical Politics,” a special issue of the journal South Atlantic Quarterly (1996).