Previous positions
- Institute for the Humanities: Research
Fellow
- Harvard University: Summer Research Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks
- Princeton University: Research Fellow at the Program in
Hellenic Studies
- Princeton University: Fellow at Wilson Colleges
- University of Athens: Onassis Foundation Research Fellow in Modern Greek
Studies
- University
of Oxford: Wingate Foundation Research
Scholar
Pre-doctoral positions
- University of Oxford: Instructor
for the Faculty of Classics
- University of Oxford: occasional tutor in
Modern
Greek linguistics
- Oxford University Press: Freelance etymologist
for the Oxford English Dictionary
Education
- DPhil in the History of Greek (Oxford University)
- MPhil in Comparative Philology (Oxford University)
- MSt in
Theoretical Linguistics (Oxford University)
- BA in Classical, Medieval & Modern Greek (King’s College
London)
with First Class Honours and
the Burrows
Studentship award
Interests
- Modern Greek Studies:
culture, linguistics,
history, and literature of Modern Greece
- Classics: Ancient
Greek and Latin culture, language, literature, and
society
- Mediterranean Studies: cultural
interchanges of Greece, Turkey, and beyond
- Byzantine Studies: Medieval Greek
philology
- Linguistics: phonetics, morphology, sociolinguistics, historical
linguistics
- Languages:
(besides
Greek & Latin) Turkish, Romanian, Hebrew, Italian, Swedish
Recent publications
- Greek prepostions from antiquity to the
present [book in press]. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- ‘Greek with
no history, no standard, no models’. Chapter in forthcoming book:
Standard Languages and
Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present.
A.
Georgakopoulou and M. Silk (eds.), London (2007).
- Review of
Christidis' History of the Greek Language from the beginning
to
late antiquity for the Journal of
Modern Greek Linguistics 4 (2004)
- ‘On
the Ancient Greek Nominative’ (2003) p. 1-12, Studies in Greek
Linguistics 23
- ‘Division
of labour according to age: the Medieval Greek prepositional
system’
(2002)
p. 111-4 in Clairis, Ch. (ed.) Recherches en linguistique grecque.
Paris.
- ‘The Status
of the Ancient Greek cases’ (2002) p. 69-80, Studies in Greek
Linguistics
22:1
Research in progress
- Greek purism
in and out of Greece
- Surviving
enclaves of the archaic Pontic dialect
- The
semantic history of Greek prepositions
- Greek
identity and its relation to the language
Courses taught at UIC
- Modern Greek Literature in
translation (CL 298)
- Modern Greek authors (GKM 203)
- Upper Intermediate Modern Greek
(GKM
103)
- Modern Greek Culture (GKM 105)
- Advanced Modern Greek (GKM 104)
- Katharevousa and its literature (GKM 201)
- Lower Intermediate Modern Greek
(GKM 102)
- Beginners' Modern Greek (GKM 101)
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