Education
University College London
PhD in Classics, under the supervision of Professor Patricia E. Easterling (then, Regius Professor of Greek in Cambridge). Title of the thesis: ‘A Thematic Commentary on Euripides' Ion with special attention to literary and religious aspects’

M.A. in Classics

Kapodistrian University, Athens
B.A. in Philosophy, Pedagogy and Psychology

Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and King’s College, London
Master’s of Arts in Text & Performance Studies (audit)

Université de Paris — Sorbonne, Paris IV
Diplome d’ études Françaises (2eme Degreé)

Universidad de Barcelona
Diploma de Sufficiencia

Goëthe Institut, London
Zertificat


Employment Record
June 2004 - present: Director of Humanities, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

June 2003 - present: Associate Professor in Classics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

June 2002 - May 2003: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

January 1999 - May 2002: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Classics and Modern Greek Studies, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.

September 1997 - June 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, University College London; replacing the Professor of Greek, Richard Janko.

September 1997 - September 1998: Visiting Assistant Professor in Classical Drama for the graduate M.A. program in Text & Performance Studies at King's College, London.

September 1996 - August 1997: Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics, Royal Holloway, University of London; replacing the Professor of Greek, Chris Carey.


Publications

Books
Converging Truths: Euripides’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition
Single-authored monograph published in 2003 by Brill Academic Publishers (Leiden).
Now reviewed in the Classical Review, vol 54, no. 2, 2004: 308-9.
A Thematic Commentary on Euripides’ Ion with special attention to literary and religious aspects, PhD dissertation, London 1996/97.

Articles
“Plurality of Discourses in Euripides’ Ion: Euripides as thinker and dramatist”
Archaiologia & Technes, Athens, March 2003: 97-100 (published in Greek).
“Sophocles and the West: the Evidence of the Fragments”
A. Sommerstein (ed.), Shards from Kolonos: Studies in Sophoclean Fragments. Levante Editori, Bari, Italy, 2003: 57-76. Now reviewed in the Classical Review, vol 54, no. 2, 2004: 301-3.
“‘The Rock of the Nightingale’: Kinship Diplomacy and Sophocles’ Tereus”
F. Budelmann & P. Michelakis (edd.), Homer, Tragedy and Beyond: Essays in Greek Literature in honor of P.E. Easterling. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, London, 2001: 91-112. (This is a special supplementary volume of the refereed Journal of Hellenic Studies).
“Reversed Heroism and Heroic Perversion in Euripides’ Medea”
T. Shasha & D. Stuttard (edd.), Dionysus, vol. 6, 1996, York: 39-42.
“The Marriage of Tragedy and Comedy in Euripides’ Ion”
S. Jäkel & A. Timonen (edd.), Laughter down the centuries, vol. II, Turku, 1995: 45-63.

Book Reviews et. al.
Book Review of Lee, K.H., Euripides’ Ion. Translation and Commentary. Classical Review, vol. 49, no. 2, 1999: 353-54.
Program Notes for the 1998 UCL production of Euripides’ Orestes.
Program Notes for the 1998 Thiasos production of Euripides’ Hippolytus.
Book Review of Meagher, R.M., Euripides’ Bakkhai. Translation and Commentary. Classical Review, vol. 47, no. 1, 1997: 196.

In Preparation
Hellenisms: Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modern Times
Editor of and contributor to a volume comprising ten chapters by different international contributors, and two by the editor. Expect publication in early 2006 by the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at Birmingham, Ashgate Publishers.
Greek Tragedy: Critical Assessments
Editor of a four-volume set comprising the most influential essays on Greek tragedy. Introductions to each volume will be supplied by the editor. Currently under contract with Routledge, UK. To be submitted to the press in late 2005.

Other Recent Professional Activities

Conference Organizer
June 2004-2009: Associate Director of the annual Comparative Drama Conference, Cal State Northridge, CA. Tasks include accepting the best-quality papers on Greek drama for presentation at the conference, organizing one panel per year on Greek tragedy, chairing panels on Greek drama, reviewing papers for the referred journal of the conference, Text & Presentation. In March 2005, organizer and speaker in panel on Theatrical discourse in national filmic narratives.
January 2003 – April 2003: Organizer and chairperson for a four-series documentary screenings at LMU on issues pertaining to Hellenic civilization.
March 2001 – April 2001: Organizer and chairperson of two lectures as part of the fall series on ‘Greek Identity 1000 BC to 2000 AD’.
October 2000 – November 2000: Organizer and chairperson of a 5-week lecture series on ‘Greek Identity 1000 BC to 2000 AD’.

Documentary Interviews
December 2004: Mefford, Jon (Executive Producer). Interviewed for the special DVD features for the feature film Electra starring Jennifer Garner. I discuss four ancient Greek tragedies (Aeschylus’ Choephori, Sophocles’ Electra, Euripides’ Electra and Orestes) and psychoanalytic theory (Freud, Jung, Lacan). Forthcoming, October 2005.
August 2001: Bram Roos (Executive Producer), FilmRoos Productions. Interviewed by the History Channel in Athens for a two-hour special documentary on the ‘Gods and Goddesses in Ancient Greece’. Aired in August 2002.