Van Dyck, Karen 1961–

views updated

Van Dyck, Karen 1961–

(Karen Rhoads Van Dyck)

PERSONAL: Born January 25, 1961, in New York, NY; daughter of Nicholas (a pastor) and Marcia (a teacher; maiden name, Perera) Van Dyck; married Nelson Moe (a professor); children: Jacob Tanner, Benjamin Elias, Leander Rhoads. Education: Wesleyan University, B.A.; Aristotelian, Thessaloniki, Greece, M.A.; Oxford University, D.Phil.

ADDRESSES: Home—401 W. 118th St., No. 52, New York, NY 10027. Office—Department of Classics, 515 Hamilton Hall, Columbia University, Box 2873, New York, NY 10027; fax: 212-854-7856. E-mail[email protected].

CAREER: Columbia University, New York, NY, former associate professor, now Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek.

MEMBER: Modern Language Association of America, Modern Greek Studies Association.

AWARDS, HONORS: Marshall grant, 1985–88; grants from American Council of Learned Societies, 1992, and National Endowment for the Arts, 1996; Fulbright fellow, 2000.

WRITINGS:

(Editor) Greece, Houghton Mifflin (Boston, MA), 1995.

(Translator) Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers (novel), Paul and Co. (New York, NY), 1995.

Kassandra and the Censors: Greek Poetry since 1967, Cornell University Press (Ithaca, NY), 1998.

(Translator and author of introduction) The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding: Three Collections by Contemporary Greek Women Poets (bilingual edition), University Press of New England (Hanover, NH), 1998.

(Editor, with Peter Bien, Peter Constantine, and Edmund Keeley) A Century of Greek Poetry, 1900–2000, Cosmos Publishing (River Vale, NJ), 2004.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Kirkus Reviews, April 15, 1998, p. 531.

Times Literary Supplement, May 29, 1998, p. 35.

About this article

Van Dyck, Karen 1961–

Updated About encyclopedia.com content Print Article