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Photo courtesy Dimitrios Yatromanolakis

Associate Professor of Classics and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland

Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow - Class of Fall 2006


Dimitrios Yatromanolakis holds a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. A former Junior Fellow at the Society of Fellows, Harvard University, he has been awarded numerous fellowships, including the Berlin Prize of the American Academy in Berlin. He holds appointments at the Department of Classics, the Department of Anthropology, and the Department of Comparative Thought, JHU. He is the author, co-author or editor of 10 books, including Sappho in the Making: The Early Reception (author), Towards a Ritual Poetics (co-author), Greek Mythologies (author), Politics of Mythogenesis: Art and Thought in the European Avant-Garde (author, [in Greek]), Epigraphy of Art: Ancient Greek Vase-Inscriptions and Vase-Paintings (editor), An Archaeology of Representations: Ancient Greek Vase-Painting and Contemporary Methodologies (editor), and Archaic Ontological Past: Pre-Socratic Philosophy and European Avant-Garde Art and Thought (editor). His areas of expertise include ancient Greek vase-painting, Greek epigraphy, Greek papyrology, European intellectual history and history of art (first half of the 20th century), historical and comparative anthropology. Among other studies, he has written articles on ancient Greek vase-inscriptions and vase-paintings, Greek papyri, archaic and classical Greek performance culture, and classical reception studies. He is Co-Editor of the German archaeological journal Hephaistos: Kritische Zeitschrift zur Theorie und Praxis der Archäologie und angrenzender Gebiete. He has taught at the University of Oxford, the University of Reading, and Harvard University. Studies written in his honor have already been published in Brill’s flagship series Brill’s Studies in Intellectual HistoryMythogenesis, Interdiscursivity, Ritual: Studies Presented to Demetrios Yatromanolakis.

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