Gonda Van Steen

Gonda Van Steen (2017)

Gonda Van Steen , complete: Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen (born April 8, 1964 in Aalst , Belgium ) is a Belgian-American classical philologist and neo-Greekist .

Van Steen studied Classical Philology at the University of Ghent , Belgium , from 1982 to 1986 . From 1990 she continued her studies in Classics and Hellenic Studies at Princeton University , where she earned her Ph.D. received his doctorate. Then she was initially an Assistant Professor at Cornell University , since 1997 Assistant Professor, since 2002 Associate Professor at the University of Arizona . Since 2009 she has been teaching ancient Greek and modern Greek philology as Cassas Professor in Greek Studies at the University of Florida . Since September 2018, she has succeeded Roderick Beaton as the new Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London .

Research focuses on classical drama, in particular the performance of Greek tragedies by political prisoners in Greek internment camps in the immediate post-war period, the French diplomat Comte de Marcellus (1795–1865), who, like Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, Greece and the Ottoman Empire toured, the reception history of classical antiquity in the 19th and 20th centuries and the intellectual history of modern Greece ( feminism of the post-war period, theater and censorship under the military dictatorship ).

She received a John D. Criticos Prize from the Hellenic Society in 2000 for her book on Aristophanes' Reception in the History of Modern Greece .

Fonts (selection)

• Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967–1974 . Oxford University Press, Oxford 2015.
• Theater of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands . OUP, Oxford 2011. Review by Diana Gilliland Wright, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 09.56.2011
• Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte De Marcellus and the Last of the Classics . Palgrave MacMillan, New York 2010. Review by Amy Muse, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 05/06/2011
• Venom in verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 2000. Review by Kiki Gounaridou, in: Comparative Drama, 2002.

Web links

• Personal page, Dept. of Classics, University of Florida (with CV and list of publications)
• Further personal page, Dept. of Classics, University of Florida (with photography) ( Memento from June 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
• University of Arizona: Dr. Gonda Van Steen Accepts Prestigious Chair at the University of Florida
• King's College London, News: Professor Gonda Van Steen announced as next Koraes Chair