Vasilis Lampropoulos

Vassilis Lambropoulos was born in 1953 in Athens. He studied Modern Greek Philology at the University of Athens and completed his doctoral dissertation in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1980. The following year, he moved to America, where he has since pursued a career as a professor of Modern Greek Philology. In 1999, he became the first holder of the C.P. Cavafy Chair in the Departments of Classical Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan (USA). His research interests range from the Pre-Socratics to the poetic Generation of 2000, from literature to philosophy and music, and from "high" art to "popular" culture. He has authored and published the books: "Literature as National Institution: Studies in the Politics of Modern Greek Criticism" (1988), "The Rise of Eurocentrism: Anatomy of Interpretation" (1993), and "The Tragic Idea" (2006). His next book explores revolution as tragedy in Western theater, from the Romantics to the Postcolonialists. He has edited/co-edited the books: "The Text and Its Margins: Post-Structuralist Approaches to Twentieth-Century Greek Literature" (1985), "Twentieth-Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology" (1987), as well as the special issues "The Humanities as Social Technology" (journal "October", 1990) and "Ethical Politics" (journal "South Atlantic Quarterly", 1996). He serves on the editorial board of several academic journals and other scholarly committees. He writes about poetry, music, friendship, and politics on his blog, https://poetrypiano.wordpress.com/, as well as about the tragedy of revolution in contemporary drama on the website http://tragedy-of-revolution.complit.lsa.umich.edu/. He is married to his colleague, University of Michigan professor Artemis Leontis.