People

Anastasia Giannakidou

 

Anastasia Giannakidou is the Frank J. McLoraine Professor of Linguistics and the College at the University of Chicago. She studied Classical Philology and Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and received her PhD in Linguistics from University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She is the founder and director of the Center for Hellenic Studies Center at the University of Chicago since 2019. Anastasia’s main interest is the study of how meaning is produced with language— and pursues linguistic and philosophical analysis grounded in classical Hellenic thought and modern analytical philosophy. Anastasia studies the way beliefs and attitudes shape people’s linguistic choices in communication— and overall the relationship between language, thought and reality, and how this relation is reflected in grammar. She is the author of numerous research articles and books, most recently, Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought with the University of Chicago Press. She is currently working with her collaborator Alda Mari (ENS Paris) on a new book on uncertainty called Modal Sentences which will be published with Cambridge University Press.

Calliope Dourou

 

Calliope Dourou is an Associate Professor (Instructional) in modern Greek language and culture in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago. Before joining the University of Chicago, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor in modern Greek in the Department of Classics at Harvard University, where she also completed her PhD in modern Greek literature. She specializes in modern Greek literature and cultural history. Her main research and teaching interests embrace, but are not limited, to the following areas: classical reception studies, Renaissance Hellenism, history of the Greek language, Greek modernism, and contemporary Greek cinema.

The study of Greek has been part of the instructional and research mission of the University of Chicago since its founding. The study of Greek art, philosophy, literature, and of works written in Greek language is central to the interests of faculty and students in a large number of disciplines such as history, classics, literature, philosophy, divinity, linguistics, art history, archaeology, political science, comparative literature, East European Studies, and other disciplines present at the University.

To avoid fragmentation in the study of Greek and of Hellenism at the University, an organizational structure was created that could facilitate knowledge of each other’s activities. Given the sheer number of faculty and departments engaged in research of the Hellenic world and culture, the CHS provides a common forum, an interdisciplinary research center to concentrate and elevate its efforts in Hellenic Studies that enables communication and sharing among faculty and students across departments. The University of Chicago Center for Hellenic Studies will be highly interdisciplinary and diverse in its scope and will offer innovative ways to cross-fertilize research across paradigms, fields, and frameworks.

Administration

    • Anastasia Giannakidou – Director, Linguistics
    • Dr. Calliope Dourou – Instructional Associate Professor of Modern Greek Language and Culture, Co-Ordinator of the Modern Greek Language & Culture Program
    • Vivian Psylos – Website Administrator

Associated Faculty

Visiting Fellows

  • Yaroslav Gorbachev
The University of Chicago