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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.