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2016

“Left Melancholy in the Greek Poetry Generation of the 2000s after the Crisis of Revolution and Representation,” invited Occasional Paper #10, Journal of Modern Greek Studies (June), onlineRead as PDF
———, Greek translation by D. I. Tsoumanis as “Η αριστερή μελαγχολία στην ποιητική γενιά του 2000 / I aristeri melancholia stin poiitiki genia tou 2000,” Thraca 8 (Summer 2017): 36-62Read as PDF

2015

“Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy,” in Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine, eds.: The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (Oxford University Press), 211-29Read as PDF

2013

“Why I am not a Postsecularist,” boundary 2 40:1 (Spring): 77-80Read as PDF

2012

“Farewell to the Revolution!” in Vangelis Calotychos, ed.: Manolis Anagnostakis: Poetry and Politics, Silence and Agency in Post-War Greece (Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press), 115-30Read as PDF

2010

“Greek Chorus in 09,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 28: 2 (Fall): 277-83Read as PDF
“Unbuilding the Acropolis in Greek Literature,” in Susan Stephens and Phiroze Vasunia, eds.: Classics and National Cultures (Oxford University Press), 182-98Read as PDF
“Afterword: The Future of the Past Received,” Cultural Critique 74 (Winter): 214-17 (special issue on “Classical Reception and the Political”)Read as PDF

2008

“Governance, Hubris, and Justice in Modern Tragedy,” Thesis Eleven 93 (May): 22-35Read as PDF
“The Rehearsal of Antiquity in Post-modern Greek Fiction,” in Dimitris Plantzos and Dimitris Damaskos, eds.: A Singular Antiquity: Archaeology and Hellenic Identity in Twentieth-Century Greece (Athens: Benaki Museum), 163-71Read as PDF
———, originally given as 13th annual Kimon Friar Lecture at the American College of Greece, under title, “Reflections on Tragedy in Greek Post-Modern Fiction.”Read as PDF
“Humanism between Hubris and Heroism,” in Mina Karavanta and Nina Morgan, eds.: Humanism and the Global Hybrid (Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing), 158-73Read as PDF
“Why Translate?,” Unpublished paperRead as PDF

2007

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“Stumbling over the ‘Boundary Stone of Greek Philosophy’: Two Centuries of Translating the Anaximander Fragment,” in Festschrift for John P. Kozyris (Athens: Ant. N. Sakkoulas), 193-210Read as PDF
“Whatever Happened to Theory?,” Unpublished paperRead as PDF
———, Greek translation by T. Bouki as “Τι απέγινε η θεωρία; / Ti apegine I theoria?,” Cogito 8 (May 2008): 10–12Read as PDF

2005

“Tragedy and Counter-Politics,” Thesis Eleven 80 (February): 38-46Read as PDF

2004

“The Greeks of Art and the Greeks of History,” Modern Greek Studies Journal of Australia & New Zealand11-12: 66-74Read as PDF

2003

“Must We Keep Talking about ‘the Balkans’?” in Dimitris Tziovas, ed.: Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment (Oxford: Ashgate), 265-70Read as PDF

2002

“Classics in Performance,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 20: 2 (Fall): 191-213Read as PDF

2001

“Syncretism as Mixture and as Method,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 19: 2 (Spring): 221-35Read as PDF
“On the Notion of the Tragedy of Culture,” in Johann P. Arnason & Peter Murphy, eds.: Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and its Aftermath (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag), 233-55Read as PDF

1998

“An Ethico-Political Portrait of the Greek Imagination,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 16: 2 (October): 349-56Read as PDF
“Greek Ethnography in the Age of Ethical Formalism,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 16: 1 (May): 189-90Read as PDF

1997

“Building Diaspora,” Crossings: A Counter-Disciplinary Journal of Philosophical, Cultural, Historical, and Literary Studies (Binghamton, NY) 1: 2 (Fall): 19-26Read as PDF
“Modern Greek Studies in the Age of Ethnography,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 15: 2 (October): 197-208Read as PDF
“Justice and Good Governance: Solon’s Eunomia Elegy,” Thesis Eleven (London) 49 (May): 1-30Read as PDF
———, Greek translation by Babis Kolonias as “Δικαιοσύνη και ευνομίa / Dikaiosyni kai eunomia,” Nea Koinoniologia 31 (Fall): 70–92

1996

“Introduction: Approaches to Ethical Politics,” South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, NC) 95: 4 (Fall): 849-54Read as PDF
“Nomoscopic Analysis,” South Atlantic Quarterly (Durham, NC) 95: 4 (Fall): 855-79Read as PDF

1995

“The Rule of Justice,” Thesis Eleven (Melbourne) 40: 1-24Read as PDF

1993

“The Hebraic and Hellenic Models in the Western Literary Canon: The Case of Erich Auerbach,” Edebiyat: Journal of Middle East Literary Studies NS (London) 4: 63-86Read as PDF

1990

“Introduction” (with Eugene Holland), October (Cambridge, MA) 53 (Summer): 3-10Read as PDF
“A Didactic Proposal,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Baltimore) 8: 1 (May): 81-84Read as PDF

1989

“Modern Greek Studies at the Crossroads: The Paradigm Shift from Empiricism to Skepticism” and “Reply” [to four responses], Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Baltimore) 7: 1 (May): 1-39 and 59-64Read as PDF
“Violence and the Liberal Imagination: The Representation of Hellenism in Matthew Arnold,” in Nancy Armstrong – Leonard Tennenhouse, eds.: The Violence of Representation: Literature and the History of Violence (London: Routledge), 171-93Read as PDF

1987

“The Aesthetic Ideology of the Greek Quest for Identity,” Journal of Modern Hellenism (New York) 4: 19-24Read as PDF
———, Greek translation by Elisabeth Arseniou as “Η αισθητική ιδεολογία στην αναζήτηση της ελληνικής ταυτότητας / I esthitiki ideologia stin anazitisi tis ellinikis taftotitas,” Porfyras (Corfu) 26 (Winter 1991): 63-67Read as PDF
“Introduction” (with David Neal Miller), in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology [a Reader, co-edited with David Neal Miller, in the series “Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory,” eds. Rodolphe Gasché – Mark C. Taylor] (Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press), ix-xviiRead as PDF

1986

“Polis, Semiotics, Politics,” American Journal of Semiotics (Bloomington, IN) 4:1-2, 43-51Read as PDF

1985

“Encountering the Epistemological Challenge, or Beyond Humanism: The Discourses of Contemporary Greek Criticism and the Languages of Theory,” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (Birmingham, England) 9: 225-246Read as PDF
“Dionysios Solomos and the Fictions of Criticism: Polylas’s ‘Prolegomena’ as Künstlerroman,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Baltimore) 3:1 (May): 29-43Read as PDF
“The Sin of the Sign: The Rhetoric of Moral Violence,” Semiotica (special issue on “The Rhetoric of Violence”) 54:1-2, 201-221Read as PDF
“Preface” (with Margaret Alexiou) and “Toward a Genealogy of Modern Greek Literature,” in The Text and its Margins: Post-Structuralist Approaches to Twentieth-Century Greek Literature [a collection of ten original papers, co-edited with Margaret Alexiou] (New York: Pella), 7-13, 15-36Read as PDF

1983

“Resisting on: The Power of Knowledge and the Knowledge of Power,” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora(New York) 10:3 (Fall): 65-69Read as PDF
“The Violent Power of Knowledge: The Struggle of Discourses for Power over C.P. Cavafy’s ‘Young Men of Sidon, A.D. 400’,” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (New York), 10:1-2 (Spring): 149-66Read as PDF
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