Karen Van Dyck
United States / Columbia University
Karen Van Dyck received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Wesleyan, Aristotle (Thessaloniki), and Oxford. She directed Hellenic Studies in the Classics Department at Columbia (1988–2016) and has also been an active member of the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality (IRWGS), the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society (ICLS), and the European Institute and the Istanbul Global Center. Her books include Kassandra and the Censors, The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding, The Scattered Papers of Penelope, and Austerity Measures: The New Greek Poetry, which won the London Hellenic Prize (2016). Her essays, translations and poetry have appeared in LARB, the Guardian, World Literature Today, and Tender.