George Syrimis

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Lecturer, Hellenic Studies Prog MacMillan Center and Religious Studies
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34 Hillhouse Ave, New Haven, CT 06511-8936
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203-432-9342

George Syrimis grew up on the island of Cyprus. After completing his military service, he received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at Cornell University where he completed his B.Sc. in Education in 1990. He subsequently pursued graduate work at Harvard University where he studied Modern Greek, Classical Greek and Modern Spanish literature. His dissertation on the poetics of C.P. Cavafy’s love poems was entitled “”Try to Guard Them, Poet”: Homoeroticism and the Poetics of Opacity in C. P. Cavafy.” In 2001, he joined the newly established Program in Hellenic Studies at Yale University as the language lector and in 2004 was promoted to associate Program Chair of the same program. He has published articles on the oral tradition, Georgios Vizyenos, Cavafy, Mikis Theodorakis, and Nikos Kazantzakis. In addition to his academic work, he has also developed two electronic projects (Lexis and Ikones) for the instructions of Modern Greek. His research interests include music and national identity, religion and literature, cultural studies, reception studies, and gender and sexuality. His current research focuses on the literature on Julian the Apostate from the Enlightenment to the present.

WGSS 215 Modern Literature and the Eastern Mediterranean
WGSS 247 Religion & Liteature: Irreverent Texts
WGSS 248 Literature & War in the Greek Tradition
WGSS 261 Cinema of Migration
WGSS 337 Poetry of C.P. Cavafy