Gonda Van Steen Explained
| Birth Date: | 8 April 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Aalst, Belgium |
| Thesis Title: | Aristophanes in Modern Greece: From Textual Reception to Performance Dialectics |
| Thesis Year: | 1995 |
| Discipline: | Classicist |
| Sub Discipline: | Greek language and literature |
Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen (born 8 April 1964 in Aalst, Belgium) is a Belgian-American classical scholar and linguist, who specialises in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Since 2018, she has been Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, the first woman to hold this position, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She previously held the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, and taught at the University of Arizona and at Cornell University. She has also served as the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2012–2014).[1] [2]
Selected works
- Book: Van Steen . Gonda . Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? . 2019 . University of Michigan Press . 978-0472131587. Translated into Greek as Ζητούνται παιδιά από την Ελλάδα: Υιοθεσίες στην Αμερική του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, Potamos editions, 2021. .
- Book: Van Steen . Gonda . Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967–1974 . 2015 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0198718321.
- Book: Van Steen . Gonda . Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands . 2011 . Oxford University Press . Oxford . 978-0199572885.
- Book: Van Steen . Gonda . Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics . 2010 . Palgrave Macmillan . New York . 978-0230100237.
- Book: Van Steen . Gonda A. H. . Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece . 2000 . Princeton University Press . Princeton, NJ . 978-0691009568.
Notes and References
- Web site: Professor Gonda Van Steen announced as next Koraes Chair . King's College London . 5 January 2018 . 14 October 2018 . 12 May 2020 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200512130955/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/newsrecords/2018/Professor-Gonda-van-Steen-announced-as-next-Koraes-Chair.aspx . dead .
- Web site: Department of Classics - Professor Gonda Van Steen . King's College London . 14 October 2018.
