Margaret Alexiou

Margaret Alexiou is a British neo-Graecist , Byzantinist, and comparativeist . She is George Seferis Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Harvard University .

Life

Alexiou is the daughter of the British classical philologist and Celtologist George Derwent Thomson . Before her appointment to Harvard, she was Senior Lecturer in the Department for Byzantine and Modern Greek at the University of Birmingham , at Harvard she was George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies from 1984 to 2000 .

Research priorities

Alexiou works on all epochs of Greek literature and culture as well as on various other cultures of the Balkans , (like her father) on Celtic culture and Afro-American culture. Her first monograph was on Greek lamenters and their literary forms from antiquity to the present. In her book After Antiquity , she examines myths and metaphors in Byzantine and modern Greek literature, including folk tales and folk songs . Other works are devoted to Byzantine literature from the 6th to the 12th centuries, the poetry and drama of the Cretan Renaissance (including a translation of the Apocopus into English), the poems of Konstantinos Kavafis and the modern Greek prose story.

Fonts (selection)

• Ritual Lament in Greek tradition . Cambridge University Press, 1974. Revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), ISBN 0-7425-0757-2 , books.google.de .
• (Ed., With Vassilis Lambropoulos): The Text and its Margins. Post-structuralist approaches to twentieth-century Greek literature . Pella Publishing Company, New York 1985.
• CP Cavafy's 'Dangerous' Drugs: Poetry, Eros, and the Dissemination of Images . In: Margaret Alexiou, Vassilis Lambropoulos (Ed.): The Text and its Margins. Pella Publishing Company, New York 1985, pp. 157-196.
• After Antiquity: Greek Language, Myth and Metaphor . Cornell University Press, 2002, ISBN 0-8014-3301-0 , books.google.de .
• Apokopos. A fifteenth century Greek (Veneto-Cretan) catabasis in the vernacular. Synoptic edition with an introduction, commentary and index verborum by Peter Vejleskov, with an English translation by Margaret Alexiou. Romiosini , Cologne 2005 ( Neograeca Medii Aevi , IX), ISBN 3-929889-60-9 .
• Introduction . In: Five Centuries of Books and manuscripts in Modern Greek: A Catalog of an Exhibition at the Houghton Library December 4, 1987 through February 17, 1988 . The Harvard College Library, Cambridge 1990, pp. 3-15.

Web links

• Personal page at Harvard University
• Alexiou, Margaret .  Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .