Dimitrios Yatromanolakis
Assistant
Professor
B.A. University of Athens
M.St. University of Oxford
D.Phil. University
of Oxford
Society of Fellows, Harvard
University, 1999-2002
Office: 119
Gilman Hall
Phone: 410-516-7557
E-mail: yatroman@jhu.edu
Dimitrios
Yatromanolakis is a classicist whose research focuses on archaic and
classical Greek literature, sociocultural history, and vase-painting; Greek
papyrology and epigraphy; and ritual theory. He studied at the University of Athens
(B.A. in Classics) and at the University
of Oxford (M.St. and D.Phil.). Before coming to Johns Hopkins
University in 2002, he was a
Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University.
Professor
Yatromanolakis has written on archaic and classical Greek literature and
performance cultures, Greek papyri, and Attic vase-painting. He is the
author of the books Sappho in the
Making: An Anthropology of Reception (forth. HUP 2006), and Towards a Ritual Poetics (2003, co-author with Panagiotis Roilos;
Greek edition of the book, trans. by Manos Skouras and with a preface by
Marcel Detienne, 2005; Italian edition forthcoming). Professor Yatromanolakis
is also the author of the book Fragments
of Sappho: A Commentary (forth. HUP 2007), a commentary based on a
large-scale examination of the original papyri and parchments. His major
publications include the book Greek
Ritual Poetics (co-editor, 2005). He has received numerous research
fellowships and grants, including the William F. Milton Award and, more
recently, the Berlin Prize at the American
Academy in Berlin. He is a Research Associate of
Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies and one of the editors of
the Center's electronic publication Homer
and the Papyri. In collaboration with P. Roilos, he has produced the
revised English (2002) and the revised Greek edition (2002) of Margaret
Alexiou's influential book The Ritual
Lament in Greek Tradition (1974). His forthcoming publications include
a chapter on ancient Greek popular song and skolia and another chapter on
Alcaeus and Sappho in the Cambridge
Companion to Ancient Greek Lyric (ed. F. Budelmann), as well as an
interdisciplinary volume on music and politics in ancient Greek societies
(editor and author, 2008). He is currently completing a book on the
sociocultural history of the institution of mousikoi agones (poetic and musical competitions) against the
background of religious festivals in archaic, classical, and Hellenistic
Greece.
At
Johns Hopkins, Professor Yatromanolakis teaches courses on ancient Greek
and Latin literature and Graeco-Roman performance cultures; Greek
papyrology, epigraphy, and ancient transmission of texts; ancient Greek
religion and ritual; and reception studies.
He
is on the Board of Directors of the Program for the Study of Women, Gender,
and Sexuality, The Johns Hopkins University. He is Contributing Faculty of
the Johns Hopkins Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and
Archaeology. He has co-founded and co-chairs the Research Program/Seminar
"Cultural Politics: Interdisciplinary Perspectives" at the Weatherhead Center
for International Affairs, Harvard
University.
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