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Masterclass & Lecture from the Fulbright Foundation in Greece & the Hellenic Association for American Studies [27,28/4/23]

Masterclass & Lecture from the Fulbright Foundation in Greece & the Hellenic Association for American Studies [27,28/4/23]

The Fulbright Foundation in Greece & The Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS)
are pleased to invite you to:
Masterclass
(hosted via ZOOM)
A Conversation between
Aliki Barnstone and Liana Sakelliou:
Collaborating as Poets, Translators, and Feminist Critics
on Thursday, April 27th, 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm EEST
&
Lecture (hosted via ZOOM)
Emily Dickinson & Mary Lyon:
Woman-Centered Utopias
and the
Founding of the Mount Holyoke College
by
Aliki Barnstone
on Friday April 28th, 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm EEST

Featuring
Aliki Barnstone, Professor of English, U of Missouri, Columbia MO, U.S.; poet laureate of Missouri 2016-2019; Fulbright Scholar in Greece 2022-2023.

Poet, translator, critic, editor, essayist, and visual artist. She is the author of eight books of poetry, the most recent of which include: Dear God Dear, Dr. Heartbreak: New and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow, 2009), Bright Body (White Pine, 2011), and Dwelling (Sheep Meadow, 2016). She translated The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy (W.W. Norton, 2006) and Portrait Before Dark by Liana Sakelliou, both from Modern Greek (St. Julian Press, 2022) and Sakelliou’s translation of Barnstone’s Eva: The Voices of an Imaginary Poet into Greek is forthcoming in a bilingual edition in Athens (Vakhikon, 2022).

Liana Sakelliou, Professor of American Literature and Creative Writing, National and Kapodistrian U of Athens, Greece; Fulbright alumna.

Poet, translator, critic, editor and professor at the U of Athens and at the Takis Sinopoulos Foundation. She has written 26 books, the latest of which are the poetry collections Murmullo (Sevilla, Padilla Libros 2023), Σκιασμών [Skiasmon] (Athens, 4×4 2022), Sequentiae (Sevilla, Padilla Libros 2022 and Athens, Gutenberg 2021), Portrait Before Dark (Texas, St Julian Press 2022), and Alchemy of Cells (Bucureşt, Vinea 2021). She has published translations and scholarly works for Emerson, Dickinson, H.D., Schneider. She has received grants from the Fulbright Foundation, the Department of Hellenic Studies at Princeton, the U of Coimbra, West Dean and the British Council. Her poems have been widely anthologized and translated into eleven languages.

Please register for both events HERE.
Your zoom link for the two events will be sent to you
on Thursday April 27, 2023 (midday).

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