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.