Athena GEORGANTA
MA, DEA, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies
Curriculum Vitae
EDUCATION
1988
Ph. D., University of Thessaloniki, Department
of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
1979
Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.)
Université de Paris I (Panthιon-Sorbonne)
Faculté des études du monde byzantin et post-byzantin
1978
Master of Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich
Department of European Literature
1977
University Diploma (B.A.), University of Thessaloniki
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
1973
Highschool Diploma
American Anatolia College, Thessaloniki
POST-DOCTOR’S RESEARCH
1991 - 1993
University of Thessaloniki, Department of Classics
Principal Research Fellow in the two-year programme
concerning the influence of Ancient Greece
on European and Modern Greek Literature
1991 - 1993
Boutaris Cultural Foundation
Research programme on Greek Oenological Poetry
(Book published mentioned below)
1997
University of Oxford, European Humanities Research Centre,
Visiting Fellow during Michaelmas Term engaged in a research project
concerning the byronic inspiration of the poetry of Andreas Kalvos,
who is considered one of the two greatest 19th-Century Greek poets
2005
(December)
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France
Visiting Professor in a research project concerning Andreas Kalvos
and his relation to the revolutionary secret society of the Carbonari
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS
 A Century of Byronmania. The World of Byron and Modern Greek Poetry,
Exandas Editions 1992, reprint 2001 (pp.176 )
The book presents Βyron’s impact on 19th-Century Modern Greek literature and, at the
same time, traces and presents Byron’s indebtedness to historical figures and texts of
Greece under the Ottoman rule.
 Henri Murger, Scènes de la vie de Bohθme, translated by
Emmanuel Roides, Kastaniotis Editions 1992 (pp. 434)
A new edition restoring the original greek text by Roides
 Emmanuel Roides, The Road to Pope Joan, Istos Editions 1993 (pp. 449)
examins the process followed by Roides towards the creation of his widely known novel
Pope Joan (1866), translated in English by Lawrence Durrell in 1954. It is argued that
Roides’s novel belongs to the Greek romantic tradition and Byron’s Don Juan is traced
as a major influence on the greek novel.
 Wine of All Vintages. Vine,Wine and Drinking in Modern Greek Poetry,
Boutaris Cultural Foundation – Ikaros Editions 1995 (pp. 202)
 To be published: Andreas Kalvos. A Great Romantic in the World of the Carbonari
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS, RECENT ARTICLES

«Hellenic byronism. The crucial decade 1815-1824», Nea Hestia,
Nr. 1777 (April 2005) 610-654 (in greek)

«Kalvos and the Carbonari», Mnemon (An Annual Publication of the
Modern Greek Studies Association), v. 27 (2006) 55-108 (in greek)

«Romantic Theories of Poetic Language. Towards a Reconsideration of
Andreas Kalvos’ Odes», Comparison (An Annual Publication of the Greek
Comparative Literature Association), v. 18 (2007) 8-27 (in greek)