Associate Professor Christopher Livanos

Areas: 
Relations between Eastern and Western Europe, Greek and Russian Orthodoxy, Science Fiction, Theories of Monstrosity and Otherness
Languages: 
Spanish, Russian, Modern Greek, Italian, Ancient Greek, Latin
Office: 
2314 Sterling Hall
Phone: 
263-3851
Email: 
clivanos@wisc.edu
Education: 
BA: University of California at Santa Cruz (1991), World Literature and Cultural Studies PhD: Harvard University (2001), Comparative Literature
Selected Publications: 

"Teaching the Canzoniere in a Comparative Literature Curriculum." Approaches to Teaching Petrarch’s Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition. Christopher Kleinhenz and Andrea Dini, Eds, MLA Publications. pp. 413-424. [Forthcoming].

"A Case Study in Byzantine Dragon-Slaying: Digenes and the Serpent" Oral Tradition, 26/1 (2011): 125-144. Available online at: http://journal.oraltradition.org/files/articles/26i/05_26.1.pdf 

"Elissa as a New Dido: Greece, the East, and the Westward Movement of Culture in the Decameron," Heliotropia: A Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation, 7.1-2 (2010): 133-144. Available online at: http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/heliotropia/07/livanos.pdf 
“Developments and Trends in Byzantine Poetry” in The Byzantine World edited by Paul Stephenson (Routledge, 2010). 

"Monotheists, Dualists and Pagans” in The Byzantine World edited by Paul Stephenson (Routledge, 2010) pp. 103-113. 

“Elissa as a New Dido: Greece, the East, and the Westward Movement of Culture in the Decameron” (forthcoming in Heliotropia: A Forum for Boccaccio Research and Interpretation) 

Congratulations to Professor Livanos on the publication of his book, Greek Tradition and Latin Influence in the Work of George Scholarios, published by Gorgias Press (2006).

CV: 
application/pdf iconChris Livanos CV 2012.pdf