Roderick Beaton

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Roderick Macleod Beaton (in Modern Greek transcription: Ρόντερικ Μπήτον) (born September 29, 1951 ) is a British Neo- Greekist and Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature at King's College London .

Life

After studying English literature and earning a PhD in Neo- Greek Studies in Cambridge , Beaton was first a Fellow in Modern Greek at the University of Birmingham , then Lecturer in Modern Greek Language and Literature at King's College London in 1981, and in 1988 he was appointed Koraes Professor there. As such, he was actively involved in founding the Center for Hellenic Studies at King's College. From October 2009 to September 2012 he will be relieved of his teaching duties and will take part in a Major Leverhulme Fellowship to work on a project entitled: Byron's War: The Greek Revolution and the English Romantic Imagination .

Honors

Beaton has won the Runciman Award three times : in 1995 for his introduction to modern Greek literature, in 2004 for the biography of Giorgos Seferis and in 2014 for his book on Lord Byron and his involvement in the Greek Revolution . In 2008 he received the Hellenic Foundation for Culture Translation Award for the translation of Seferis' Levant Journal . In 2019 he was appointed Commander of the Order of Honor by the President of Greece Prokopis Pavlopoulos . He has been a member ( fellow ) of the British Academy since 2013 .

Research priorities

Beaton began his career with work on Greek folk poetry from the Byzantine era to modern times, for which he carried out field research in Greece and Cyprus, and the Byzantine novel up to the fall of Constantinople in 1453, which is characterized by her literary analysis of the Identify the object. With further work on Seferis and Kazantzakis , he has now established himself as one of the leading non-Greek experts in the field of modern Greek literature. Three of his books have now been translated into Greek.

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed., With David Ricks ): The Making of Modern Greece: Romanticism, Nationalism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896) (Farnham: Ashgate 2009), ISBN 978-0-7546-6498-7 , Google Books : [1]
  • Ο Καζαντζάκης μοντερνιστής και μεταμοντέρνος . Επιμέλεια: Σ. Ν. Φιλιππίδης (Athens: Kastaniotis 2009), ISBN 978-960-03-4926-9
  • From Byzantium to Modern Greece: Medieval Literature and its Modern Reception (Farnham: Ashgate 2008), ISBN 978-0-7546-5969-3
  • George Seferis: A Levant Journal (edited and translated) (Jerusalem: Ibis 2007)
  • George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel. A Biography (London and New Haven: Yale University Press 2003; Greek translation 2003), book review: Vivienne Nilan, Roderick Beaton and 'George Seferis: Waiting for the Angel' , in: Kathimerini. English Edition , Thursday November 13, 2003 [2]
  • An Introduction to Modern Greek Literature , second revised. (Oxford University Press 1999; 1st edition Oxford: Clarendon Press 1994; Greek translation 1996), Google books: [3]
  • (Ed., With David Ricks): Digenes Akrites: new approaches to Byzantine heroic poetry . Aldershot: Variorum 1993, ISBN 0-86078-395-2
  • The Medieval Greek Romance , second revised. Ed. (London: Routledge 1996, ISBN 0-415-12032-2 ; 1st ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1989; Greek translation: Η ερωτική μυθιστορία του ελληνικού Μεσαίωνα . 2η έκδοδση, Αεραδμ 1996), ίραθήνα: Ασακτα: Αραθμ. Google Books: [4]
  • Folk Poetry of Modern Greece (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1980; new edition 2004), (online) (PDF); Google Books: [5]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fellows: Roderick Beaton. British Academy, accessed August 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Beaton, Roderick
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beaton, Roderick Macleod (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Byzantinist and Neo-Greekist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1951