Yiavis Kostas
Kostas Yiavis is an Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Greek, University of Thessaloniki. He started teaching as a Lecturer in Modern Greek language and literature at Cornell. He later became in turn a research fellow in Early Modern Greek literature at Princeton, a Byzantine Fellow at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks, a Humboldt post-doctoral Fellow in Modern Greek studies. Prior to joining the Faculty he was the DAAD Visiting Professor of Byzantine, Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at Hamburg University.
Yiavis studied English and Critical Theory at Thessaloniki and, then, Medieval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge where he also earned his PhD in Modern Greek literature.
His interests include literature from the vernacular Middle Ages to date; the interaction of Greek literature with the West and the East; the continuity of cultural disciplines; revolutionary “master moments” such as the end of the Medieval and the emergence into modernity; the technologies of reading.
Professor Yiavis welcomes proposals from research students within any of these fields.
Kostas Yiavis has written the following books: 1) Imperios and Margarona: The Rhymed Version, Athens: Cultural Foundation of the National Bank of Greek [MIET], 2019 and 2) Διήγησις ωραιοτάτη Ιμπερίου και Μαργαρώνας. Η ομοιοκατάληκτη μορφή (in print). He has edited the volume Λόγου Κάριν. Ένας τιμητικός τόμος για την Κάριν Boklund-Λαγοπούλου, Thessaloniki: Epikentro, 2019.
