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Marinos Pourgouris

Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature:
Comparative Literature
Phone: +1 401 863 2666
Marinos_Pourgouris@brown.edu

Marinos Pourgouris has extensively researched and written about 20th century Modern Greek Literature in a comparative context. He has completed a book-length study on the poetic metaphysics of Odysseus Elytis in relation to European Modernism. His research is informed by psychoanalytic criticism and philosophy. His current project examines literature between Mediterranean contact zones.

Biography

Marinos Pourgouris received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Rutgers University where he taught, as a lecturer, for seven years. His specialization is 20th century Greek literature and his research interests include European Modernism (with an emphasis on the Modernist lyric), psychoanalytic criticism, the classical subtext, and film. He has published articles on a variety of topics including the metaphysical theories of Odysseus Elytis, the Homeric subtext in the poetry of Yiannis Ritsos, the politics of history in Friedrich Nietzsche and Georg Lukács, and the influence of Nietzsche on Nikos Kazantzakis. He has participated in a number of conferences as a panel organizer/co-organizer and presenter and he has presented lectures on a variety of topics. In 2002 his poetry collection "Of Myth and Brine" was published by Dodoni Publications in Greece.

Teaching

Current Courses (Fall 2008, Spring 2009):
Western Travelers in Greece
Mediterranean Islands
Odysseus in Literature
Modernism and its Others (Graduate Seminar)

Previous Courses Taught:
Modern Identities and the Mediterranean (with Suzanne Stewart Steinberg)
Oedipus in Theory and Literature
Levantine Cities: Alexandria, Instambul, Athens (With Elliott Colla)
Literature and the Idea of the Nation
Literature and Resistance: Revolt in the Time of Oppression
Modernism: From Paris to Athens, 1900s - 1950s
Imagining the Other, Constructing the Self
Poetry and Music
Odysseus Across the Centuries
Balkan Cinema: Shooting War, Conflict, Identity
Greek Modernism in Context
Myth in Modern Greek Literature
Masterpieces of Modern Greek Literature
The Life and Works of Nikos Kazantzakis
Introduction to Modern Greek Lit. I, 1820s-1970s
Introduction to Modern Greek Lit. II, 1980s-1990s
The Life and Works of Odysseus Elytis
Odysseus: from Homer to Kazantzakis
Myth and Modern Greece
Greek Cinema and Greece in Cinema

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