Some Thoughts on the Trails and Travails of Hellenism and Orientalism: An Interview with Gonda Van Steen

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Published: May 1, 2013
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.17436
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Van Steen interview Greek theatre classics tragedy Aristophanes
Amy Muse
University of St. Thomas, Minessota
Efterpi Mitsi
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Author Biographies
Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas, Minessota
Amy Muse is an Associate Professor in English at the University of St. Thomas, Minnesota. Her academic interests include Romantic-era Shakespeare, female Hamlets, and philhellenic travellers. Most recently her research has concerned dramas on the London stage and tourist sites in Greece that commemorate the Greek War of Independence, which she has published in Romanticism: The Journal of Romantic Culture & Criticism and Emancipation, Liberation, and Freedom: Romantic Drama and Theatre in Britain, 1760-1830 (Monte Università Parma, 2010). In 2010 she was a Fulbright Scholar to Greece.
Efterpi Mitsi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Efterpi Mitsi is an Associate Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests are in early modern literature, focusing on word and image relations, and in travel literature. Recent publications include articles on Marlowe, Gosson, early modern travel and on British travellers to Greece, and the edited volumes Women Writing Greece: Essays in Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel (Rodopi, 2008) and The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (Peter Lang, 2013).
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