About the Authors

Effie F. Athanassopoulou is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Nebraska. She holds degrees from the University of Athens and the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on historical archaeology and the interface between documentary and archaeological data, as well as the connection between Greek archaeology and nation-building. She has participated in numerous survey and excavation projects and is completing a monograph on Medieval Mediterranean landscapes.

Monica P. Carlos is a doctoral candidate at the University of Athens, Department of Political Science and Public Administration. She is also Deputy Director of Academic Affairs of the Kokkalis Foundation in Athens. Her research interests include family form and policy.

Patricia Clark is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Greek and Roman Studies at the University of Victoria. She holds degrees in Classics from the University of Victoria and the University of Washington, from which she received her Ph.D. A social historian working in the areas of family studies and ancient medicine, her interests have recently turned to the interrelationships between landscape and culture.

Ekaterini Georgoudaki is Professor Emerita in the Department of American Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. A past president of the Hellenic Association and board member of the European Association for American Studies, she has published widely on African American and American literature in the United States and in Europe. Her publications include the recent Women, Creators of Culture (1997).

Liana Giannakopoulou is an Instructor in Modern Greek Literature at King's College, London. She recently received her Ph.D. from King's College and also holds degrees in Theoretical Linguistics and Modern Greek Literature from the Université Paris VII and the University of Athens. She has published several articles examining ancient Greek sculpture in the work of modern Greek poets.

Sandra Gilbert is a poet and feminist critic. She is the co-author, with Sandra Gubar, of The Mad Woman in the Attic, The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women, and No Man's Land. She is the author of a memoir about the death of her husband: Wrongful Death, and is currently working on a book about death and mourning: Death's Door.

Yannis Hamilakis is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton. He holds degrees from the University of Crete and the University of Sheffield and was the first director of the University of Wales Center for the Study of Southeastern Europe. His interests lie in the socio-politics of archaeology and of the past in general. He is the author of numerous articles and the editor or co-editor of five volumes, including K.S. Brown and Y. Hamilakis, The Usable: Past: Greek Metahistories (2002).

Mark C. Jones is a naval historian specializing in the smaller Allied navies of World War II (Poland, Denmark, Norway, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Yugoslavia, and Greece). He is Head of the Department of History and Social Science at St. Luke's School in Connecticut and is also a doctoral student in geography at the University of Iowa.

Gerasimus Katsan is a doctoral candidate in Modern Greek, English, and Comparative Studies at Ohio State University. His interests lie in narrative, contemporary fiction, and the expression of modernism and postmodernism in Greek literature.

Martha Klironomos is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University. She holds degrees from McGill University and Ohio State University. Her areas of specialization are aesthetics, nationalism, and modernism as well as the literature of the Hellenic diaspora.

Vassilis Lambropoulos is C.P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Michigan. He holds degrees in Modern Greek literature from the University of Athens and the University of Thessaloniki. His work focuses on canon formation, national identity, ancients and moderns, and ethics, and his many publications include Literature as National Institution (1988) and The Rise of Eurocentirsm (1993).

James Miller holds a Ph. D. in history from the University of Illinois. He teaches European Studies at Johns...