Karen Van Dyck
Kimon A. Doukas Professor of MODERN GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE, Department of Classics
(212) 854-2189
vandyck@columbia.edu
515 Hamilton Hall
Spring 2025 Office hours: Mondays 2p-3p and 6p-7p, and by appointment
Research Interests
Modern Greek literature
Women and Gender
Translation and Reception
Diaspora
Karen Van Dyck received a B.A. from Wesleyan in Classics and the College of Letters, 1983; a M.A. from Aristotle in Classics and Modern Greek, 1985; and a D.Phil from Oxford in Modern and Medieval Languages, 1990.
Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Classics Department at Columbia University, works on questions of translation, migration, gender and classical reception. She is the founding director of Hellenic Studies and an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Sexuality and Gender, the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society, the European Institute and the Istanbul and Athens Global Centers. Her books and translations include Kassandra and the Censors (Cornell, 1998), The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding (Wesleyan, 1998), The Scattered Papers of Penelope (Graywolf, 2010), The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present (Norton, 2010), and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (2016, Penguin). Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the LARB, the Paris Review, the PMLA, and World Literature Today.
Selected Publications
The Light That Burns Us by Jazra Khaleed, edited by Karen Van Dyck (World Poetry Books, 2024)
Αλλωνών/ Lifted (Agra, 2022)
Three Summers (NYRB, 2019)
Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry (Penguin, 2016)
The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present, co-edited with Peter Constantine, Rachel Hadas and Edmund Keeley (Norton, 2010).
The Scattered Papers of Penelope: New and Selected Poems by Katerina Anghelaki-Rooke (Graywolf, 2009)
Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967 (Cornell, 1998)
The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections of Poetry by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (Wesleyan, 1998)
