The Kosmos Hellenic Club
George Washington University

"Preserving Culture"

April 8, 1997: Lecture by Vangelis Kalotuhos

Topic: Preserving Culture entails not only guarding a past (in some static sense); it also demands an engagement with present configurations of the past and the projection of a more vital role for it in the future. As such, an attempt will be made to consider carefully the role literature plays in developing this notion of "Culture Preservation" by touching on the work of one cultural icon-Constantine Cavafy- and the more recent work of Rhea Galanaki and Thanassis Valtinos.

Vangelis Calotuhos received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Hellenic studies at New York University. He has taught at Boston University and at the Seferis Chair, at Harvard University. He is currently on a book version of his dissertation on "Form and Ideology in Modern Greek Poetics (1790-1960) ". He has written on the politics of criticism in Seferis and Eliot; Elytis and neo-Orthodoxy; postmodernism and the writings of Rhea Galanaki, etc.

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