Gonda Van Steen
{{Short description|American university teacher (born 1964)}}
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|image=Gonda Van Steen 2018.jpg
|caption=Van Steen in 2018
|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1964|04|08|df=yes}}
|birth_place=Aalst, Belgium
|education={{Plainlist|
- University of Ghent {{Small|(BA, MA)}}
- Princeton University {{Small|(MA, PhD)}}
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|thesis_title=Aristophanes in Modern Greece: From Textual Reception to Performance Dialectics
|thesis_year=1995
|discipline=Classicist
|sub_discipline=Greek language and literature
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Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen (born 8 April 1964 in Aalst, Belgium) is a Belgian-American classical scholar and linguist, who specialises in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Since 2018, she has been Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, the first woman to hold this position, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She previously held the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, and taught at the University of Arizona and at Cornell University. She has also served as the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2012–2014).{{cite web |title=Professor Gonda Van Steen announced as next Koraes Chair |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/newsrecords/2018/Professor-Gonda-van-Steen-announced-as-next-Koraes-Chair.aspx |website=King's College London |date=5 January 2018 |accessdate=14 October 2018 |archive-date=12 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200512130955/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/newsrecords/2018/Professor-Gonda-van-Steen-announced-as-next-Koraes-Chair.aspx |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |title=Department of Classics - Professor Gonda Van Steen |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/people/academic/vansteeng.aspx |website=King's College London |accessdate=14 October 2018}}
Selected works
- {{cite book |last=Van Steen |first1=Gonda |title=Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece: Kid pro quo? |date=2019 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-0472131587}} Translated into Greek as Ζητούνται παιδιά από την Ελλάδα: Υιοθεσίες στην Αμερική του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, Potamos editions, 2021. {{ISBN|978-9605451738}}.
- {{cite book |last1=Van Steen |first1=Gonda |title=Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967–1974 |date=2015 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0198718321}}
- {{cite book |last1=Van Steen |first1=Gonda |title=Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands |date=2011 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0199572885}}
- {{cite book |last1=Van Steen |first1=Gonda |title=Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire: Comte de Marcellus and the Last of the Classics |date=2010 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=New York |isbn=978-0230100237}}
- {{cite book |last1=Van Steen |first1=Gonda A. H. |title=Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece |date=2000 |publisher=Princeton University Press |location=Princeton, NJ |isbn=978-0691009568}}
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Category:Belgian classical scholars
Category:American classical scholars
Category:Linguists from Belgium
Category:Scholars of Greek language
Category:Academics of King's College London
Category:University of Florida faculty
Category:Cornell University faculty
Category:University of Arizona faculty
Category:American women classical scholars
Category:American people of Belgian descent