Vassilios Lambropoulos

Name: Vassilios Lambropoulos

Title(s):

• C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek

Contact Information: 734.764.0126 , vlambrop@umich.edu

Website: http://www.lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/

International Institute Affiliation(s):

• CES-EUC
• CREES
• WCED

Department Affiliation(s):

• Comparative Literature
• Modern Greek

Education Background: Ph.D., Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 1980; B.A., Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Athens, Greece, 1975

World Area(s) of Study/Interest:

• European Studies

Related Countries:

• Greece

Research/Teaching Specialization: Modern Greek literature & culture

Area/Int'l Course(s) Taught: Undergraduate Modern Greek language, literature and culture; graduate and undergraduate Comparative Literature courses on the classical tradition (such as Odysseus & Antigone through the centuries)

Publications:

• "Syncretism as Mixture and as Method". 2001. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "Classics in Performance". 2002. (Refereed Journal Article)
• "On the Notion of the Tragedy of Culture". 2001. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Syncretism in the Greek Postmodern Novel. 2001. (Refereed Journal Article)
• The Tragic Idea. 2006. (Authored Book)
• Must We Keep Talking about ‘the Balkans’?. 2003. (Refereed Journal Article)
• The Greeks of Art and the Greeks of History. 2004. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Ethical Politics, a Collection of Ten Original Papers. 1996. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Tragedy and Counter-Politics. 2005. (Refereed Journal Article)
• Literature as National Institution: Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism. 1988. (Authored Book)