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EFIMIA D. KARAKANTZA TENURED ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS, GREECE karakantza@upatras.gr FELLOW IN ANCIENT GREEK LITERATURE CENTER FOR HELLENIC STUDIES TRUSTIES FOR HARVARD UNIVERSITY ekarakant@chs.harvard.edu CURRENT ACADEMIC POSITION Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, University of Patras. RESEARCH INTERESTS Epic poetry, lyric poetry, attic drama, reception of the genres Approaches to Greek myths Construction of the notion of gender in archaic and classical poetry Sophoclean drama and the ideology of the polis Reception of the Attic Drama (see the Jocasta project below in Academic Projects ) EDUCATION 1986: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Classics. 1993: University of Reading, U. K., Department of Classics. Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Title of the doctoral thesis: Homo Heroicus. Prometheus, Herakles and Philoktetes. A Structural and Semantic Analysis of their Mythologies. 1990-1991 (spring semester): École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Seminars on ancient Greek tragedy and myths with P. Vidal-Naquet and Nicole Loraux. SCHOLARSHIPS 1991-1992: University of Reading, UK. Scholarship granted during the last year of my PhD research on the basis of academic achievement. 1

2010-2011: University of Harvard (Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC). Residential Fellowship during the fall semester (September through February). 2016 (5 11 December): University of Harvard (Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC). Visiting Scholar Grant. ACADEMIC CAREER 2007- present: University of Patras, Department of Philology 2000-2009, 2011 - present: Hellenic Open University 2010-2011: Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington DC), Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature. 2003-2006: Research Center for the Greek Language, Thessaloniki Athens 2004-2005: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of History and Archaeology 1997-2000: University of Patras, Department of Philology 1998-1999: University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology (IAKA). ACADEMIC PROJECTS Co-founder and Director of Jocasta (http://jocasta.upatras.gr/) that is a multilateral research project which aims to promote Classical Reception in Greece as part of an intertwined world. It explores Classical Reception through a variety of media ranging from literature to theatre and film to materialized configurations of everyday experience and through a plurality of approaches ranging from Philosophy to Cultural and Social Studies to Performative arts and Science-driven discourses, thus foregrounding interdisciplinary research. Based at the University of Patras, Greece, Jocasta has a threefold aim: To build a Network which facilitates the dialogue between the academic and the artistic milieu. To host an Archive and a Database for the documentation, preservation and research of Modern Greek cinematic, theatrical, literary and multimedia receptions of classics in the 21 st century. 2

To launch a Research Center for the study of Classics in the Future. Director and coordinator of the project Kyklos, a graduate research program on the Greek Epic Cycle. The Center for Hellenic Studies, University of Harvard. The program consists of graduate students, under the supervision of scholars from their home institutions, producing essays on aspects of the corpus of the Greek Epic Cycle. Once a year the Center for Hellenic Studies hosts a virtual conference, during which students are joined to present their work. Records of these dialogues are then published on the CHS site as annual issues of Kyklos@Classics@. ACADEMIC BODIES Member of the scientific Committee of the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Antiquity. Department of Philology, University of Patras. Member of the board of editors of the e-journal Electra. Department of Philology, University of Patras. PUBLICATIONS Α. BOOKS 1. Ancient Greek Myths. The discourse of the 20 th century on their nature and interpretation. Athens: 2004. (in Greek) (as co-editor) 2. M. Christopoulos, E. D. Karakantza, O. Levaniouk (eds), Light and Darkness in Myth and Religion in Greek Antiquity, Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2010. Β. JOURNALS (special issues) (as editor) 3. Classics@, issue 6, 2010, Reflecting on the Greek Epic Cycle (on the site of the CHS). 4. Kyklos@Classics@, issue 1, 2013 (on the site of the CHS). 5. Kyklos@Classics@, issue 2, 2014 (forthcoming on the site of the CHS). 3

C. PAPERS IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS, PROCEEDINGS, AND CHAPTERS IN COLLECTIVE VOLUMES 6. «Odysseia or Penelopeia? An assessment of Penelope s character and position in the Odyssey», MÈTIS, Revue d anthropologie du monde grec ancient, (1997), 12:161-179 http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/revue/metis 7. «The sexual servitude of Odysseus; An interpretative approach to Κirke and Κalypso episodes in the Odyssey», Proceedings of the 11 th Conference of the Fédération International des Études Classiques (FIEC) [Kavala, August 1999], Athens 2001, v. Ι, 468-481. 8. «The semiology of rape; The meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa in book 6 of the Odyssey», Classics Ireland (2003), 10:8-26. http://www.classicsireland.com/2003/karakantza.html 9. «Five ways of reading the Odyssey», Palimpsiston (2003), 18:29-53. (in Greek) 10. «Literary rapes revisited. A study in literary conventions and political ideology» MÈTIS, Revue d anthropologie du monde grec ancient, (2004), n.s. 2:29-45. 11. «From mythos to polis; mythical narratives in ancient Greek polis. Case studies: Sophocles Philoctetes, Euripides Bacchae» Proceedings of the Symposium on Myth and Logos (Ikaria, June 2005), Athens 2007, 99-124. (in Greek) 12. Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion, Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2010, Preface ix-xiii (with M. Christopoulos). 13. «Dark skin and dark deeds; Danaids and Aigyptioi in a culture of light» in M. Christopoulos, E. D. Karakantza, O. Levaniouk (eds) Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek Myth and Religion, Lexington Books, Lanham MD, 2010, 14-29. 14. «Eating from the tables of others. Sophocles Ajax and the Greek Epic Cycle» Classics@ (e-journal of the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University), issue 6, 2010, titled Reflecting on the Greek Epic Cycle. http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pager?tn=articlewrapper&bdc=12&mn=3233 4

15. «In quest of the Father in the narratives of origin and movement in Oedipus Tyrannus» MÈTIS, Revue d anthropologie du monde grec ancient, (2011), n.s. 9:149-164. 16. «To befriend or not to befriend? A note on lines 678-683 of the deception speech in Ajax», Logeion (2011), 1:41-47. http://www.logeion.upatras.gr/ 17. «Polis anatomy. Reflecting on polis structures in Sophoclean tragedy», Classics Ireland (2011), 18:21-55. 18. «Throwing out the menos with the bath water. The Sophoclean text vs Peter Stein s Electra (2007)», A. Bakogianni (ed.) Dialogues with the Past; Classical Reception Theory and Practice, vol. I, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS), London 2013, 61-78. 19. «Who is liable for blame? Patroclus death in book 16 of the Iliad», Proceedings of the 12 th International Symposium on the Odyssey with the general title Crime and Punishment in Homeric and Archaic Epic, eds Μ. Χριστόπουλος & Μ. Παΐζη (Ithaca, 3-7 September, 2013), Εκδόσεις του Κέντρου Οδυσσειακών Σπουδών, Ιθάκη 2014, pp.121-140. 20. «Antigone Goes to School. Georgina Kakoudaki s production of the Sophoclean play (2014) for teenage audience.» (forthcoming) (in progress - book) 21. Who Am I? Oedipus the Apolis. (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus. (scheduled for publication in early 2017) (in progress papers) 22. Dying Becomes Her. Posthumanism in Sophocles Antigone in the Light of László Nemes The Son of Saoul. 23. Sophocles Ajax as the Iliadic Achilles in the Extreme 24. The Trachiniae: Beauty and the Beast 5

CONFERENCES 1998: «An open reading of book 19 of the Odyssey; The Penelope question», Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Britain, University of Wales, at Lampeter, April 1998. 1999: «The sexual servitude of Odysseus; An interpretative approach to Κirke and Κalypso episodes in the Odyssey», 11 th Conference of the Fédération Internationale des Études Classiques (FIEC), Kavala, Greece, August 1999. 2001: «The meeting of Odysseus and Nausikaa in book 6 of the Odyssey. A semiotic approach», Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Britain, University of Manchester, April 2001. 2002: «The topography of rape in archaic and classical literature» as a member of a panel on: «Rape; Towards a History?», Joint Meeting of the Classical Association of Britain and the Classical Association of Scotland, University of Edinburgh, April 2002. 2005: «From mythos to polis; mythical narratives in ancient Greek polis. Case studies: Sophocles Philoctetes, Euripides Bacchae», Symposium on Myth with Logos, Ikaria, Greece, June 2005. 2007: «Dark skin and dark deeds; Danaides and Aigyptioi in a culture of light» International Conference on Light and Darkness in Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology and Religion, University of Patras, July 2007. 2008: «Electra s menos; Sophocles vs Stein in the 2007 production of Electra by the National Theatre of Greece», International Conference on the Reception of ancient Greek and Roman drama, Institute of Classical Studies, London, June 2008. 2010: «Oedipus revisited. Lévi-Stauss or Sophocles?», Symposium on Rereading the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss. University of Ioannina, 20-21 April, 2010. 2010: «Eating from the tables of others. Sophocles and the Greek Epic Cycle», The Greek Epic Cycle Conference, co-organized by Harvard University and the University of Patras, Ancient Olympia, 9-10 July, 2010. 2013: «Liable for blame? Patroclus death in book 16 of the Iliad», The 12 th International Symposium on the Odyssey with the general title Crime and Punishment in Homeric and Archaic Epic, Ithaca, 3-7 September, 2013. 6

2015: The Conflation of Time and Space in Sophocles Ajax, International Conference on Time and Space in Greek Myth and Religion, 3 rd 6 th July 2015, University of Patras. 2016: Dying Becomes Her. Posthumanism in Sophocles Antigone in the Light of László Nemes The Son of Saoul. 10-12 June 2016, International Conerence on Classical Reception and the Human, Jocasta Classical Reception Greece, University of Patras. LECTURES / PRESENTATIONS 1991: University of Wales at Aberystwyth, UK. «Ancient Greek and Modern Greece» 1997: University of Texas at Austin, USA. «What does Penelope know?» 1997: College Year in Athens. «Psychoanalysis and Greek Mythology» 2000: National University of Athens, School of Education. «Odysseus and Penelope; a study of the reversal of the traditional relationship of the sexes in Homer» 2001: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Theology. «The presence and interpretation of nature in Sophocles Philoctetes and Euripides Hippolytos». 2002: University of Copenhagen, Odense and Århus (Denmark) at the Departments of Classics. «Literary Rapes revisited. Narrative techniques and political ideology in ancient Greek literature». 2002: University of Thessaly, Polytechnic School, Department of Architecture «The topography of rape and its manipulation in the ideological discourse of the Greek polis». 2006: Center for Inter-cultural Studies, Athens «Religion in ancient Greek poleis» 2008: University of Illinois at Chicago, and University of Ohio at Athens, USA. «On Oedipus and the win(k)ling of his eye. Ancient evidence and modern approaches to Oedipus myth» 7

2008: Association of Classical Teachers of Patras. «Homeric Epic Songs: A Presentation of book 6 of the Iliad, and book 5 of the Odyssey» 2010: Rothman Distinguished Lectures in Classics, University of Florida at Gainesville, 29 November. «Sophocles Ajax: An Unfit Hero» or (on second thought) «Ajax the Best of the Achaeans». 2013: Center for Hellenic Studies (Greece), Harvard University, 27 March, Kranidi, Argolis. Respondent to the Lecture by Professor Ioannis Petropoulos titled: «Theory and Practice in the Study of Myths. The Case of Polyphemus the Cyclops». 2016: Municipal Library of Metamorphosis, Athens. Thousand and One Interpretations of Sophocles Antigone. 2016: University of Florida at Gainesville, scheduled for the 29 th of November. Burying the Dead in a Posthumanistic World. Sophocles Antigone in the Light of László Nemes The Son of Saoul. 2016: University of Saint Joseph, Philadelphia, scheduled for the 2nd of December. Burying the Dead in a Posthumanistic World. Sophocles Antigone in the Light of László Nemes The Son of Saoul. 8