Liana Theodoratou
Liana Theodoratou is a Clinical Professor and Director of the Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies at NYU and Director of the NYU in Athens Program. She teaches courses on a range of topics in the areas of Ancient and Modern Greek literature and culture, Mediterranean studies, comparative literature, cinema, the politics of translation, and literary theory. She is a three times recipient of the University’s Outstanding Teaching Award and of its Golden Dozen Award for Teaching Excellence. She has written widely on Ancient and Modern Greek poetry, with a primary focus on the Second World War and the Civil War generation of poets. She has translated several works by, among others, Foucault, Althusser, and Derrida into Modern Greek and co-translated Nadar’s memoirs from French to English for MIT Press.