Kostas Yiavis

Lecturer in Modern Greek

190A Uris Hall,

Cornell University,

Ithaca, NY 14853-7601

Tel.: 607-255-7592

Facs.: 607-255-1565

E-mail: ky98@cornell.edu

 

Education

2006: PhD, University of Cambridge.

2000: MPhil, University of Cambridge.

1999: MA, University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

1997: BA, ibid.

 

Armed forces

2001-2: Hellenic Army, mandatory service.

 

Editorial Service

2003-to date: Review Editor for Anglo-Hellenic Review (London)

 

Administration and Fundraising

Anglo-Hellenic League, AHR Board Member.

Selwyn College, Cambridge: Member of the steering committee for the 125^th anniversary.

 

Publications

1. Book

 “A Critical Edition of the Romance Imberios and Margarona” (MIET, forthcoming).

 

2. Articles

1. “English Influence on Greek Literature”.  In Literary Dictionary.  Athens: Patakis (2007) [in Greek].

 

2. Entries on Dawkins, Papastavrou, George Thompson. Ibid.

3. “So Near Yet So Far: Medieval Courtly Romance and Imberios and Margarona”. Byzantinische Zeitschrift 99:1 (2006): 195-217.

 

4. “Finding Imberios and Margarona: An Inventory of Extant Editions”.  Hellenika  56:2 (2006): 321-45.

 

5. “Chaucer and the Death of the Father as a Figure of Authority”. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 9 (2001): 13-29.

 

6. “Life-giving Waters and the Waters of the Cephise: Fairie Queene I, XI, 29-30”.  Classical and Modern Literature 19 (1998): 77-82.

 

7. “Interdependence of Text and Manuscript in the Sixteenth-Century”.  In Neograeca medii aevi 6 (forthcoming).

 

Reviews

1. Livistros and Rodamne.  A Critical Edition of Vat. gr. 2391, by Tina Lendari.  Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (forthcoming).

2. Αφήγησις Λιβίστρου και Ροδάμνης, by Panagiotis Agapitos. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (forthcoming).

3. Lorenzo de’ Medici: Collector and Antiquarian, by Laurie Fusco and Gino Corti.

    The Medieval Review (forthcoming).

 

4. History of the Byzantine Jews: A Microcosmos in the Thousand-Year Empire, by                     

    Elli Kohen.  Bulletin of Judaeo-Greek Studies (forthcoming).

5. Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael  Psellos, edited and translated by Anthony Kaldellis; With Contributions by David    Jenkins and Stratis Papaioannou.  Journal of Hellenic Studies (forthcoming).

6. Robert de Clari: La Conquête de Constantinople, edited by Peter Noble.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 37 (forthcoming).

7. The Renaissance: A Very Short Introduction, by Jerry Brotton.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 37 (forthcoming).

8. George Boustronios: A Narrative of the Chronicle of Cyprus, 1456–1489, transl. by Nicholas Coureas.  The English Historical Review (forthcoming).

9. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe, by Elizabeth Eisenstein.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 35 (2007): 21-2.

 

10. In the Beginning: Bibles before the Year 1000, edited by Michelle P. Brown.Catalogue of the eponymous exhibition, Washington, DC.  Anglo-Hellenic Review

    36 (2007): 21-2.

 

11. Apokopos, edited by Peter Vejleskov, translated into English by Margaret Alexiou.

    Anglo-Hellenic Review 34 (2006): 23-4.

 

12. A Modern Greek-English Dictionary, by D.J. Georgacas.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 34 (2006): 23.

 

13. Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims, and Jews, 1430-1950, by Mark Mazower.  Journal of Mediterranean Studies 15 (2006): 178-80.

 

14. Warriors and Their Weapons around the Time of the Crusades, by David Nicolle. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2006): 98-100.

 

15. Lady Hester: Queen of the East, by Lorna Gibb.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 32 (2005):  22.

16. Ithaca, Journal of the National Book Centre of Greece. Anglo-Hellenic Review 31 (2005): 25.

 

17. White Gold, by Giles Milton.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 31 (2005): 19-20.

 

18. The Rise of Oriental Travel: English Visitors to the Ottoman Empire, 1580-1720, by Gerald M. Maclean.  Anglo-Hellenic Review 30 (2004): 28-9.

 

Current Projects

• Monograph on the Byzantine and Early Modern translations/adaptations of Western literature.
• Studies of romance topoi, and the construction of early modern Greek readership.

 

Courses taught this year:

NES 122, NES 127, NES 198, NES 298.  Other activities: organising film screenings,

and Byzantine and Modern Greek literature readings.

 

 Research Interests:

• Modern and early modern Greek literature
• Byzantine literature; Classics in Byzantium
• Early printed editions (16^th-19^th centuries), palaeography, codicology
• Concepts of the medium and of history of reading
• Theories of authorship
• Theory and practice of critical editions
• Comparative poetics
• Interaction of literature with seemingly more powerful discourses (history, philosophy etc)

 

Recreational Interests include

cooking and entertaining friends; Persian literature; religions of the world; c.6^th C. AD Byzantine household pottery; reading good books.

 

updated 11/12/2007