[MGSA-L] China & Greece at Michigan - A Theme Year

[Vassilios Lambropoulos]

First event of the theme year
"The Classical in Modern Times:
A Year on China and Greece"
A collaborative project of the Modern Greek Program and the Confucius Institute
at the University of Michigan


"The Significance of
China and Greece for a Theory of
World Literature"

LECTURE BY ALEXANDER BEECROFT
Associate Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature
Director, Program in Comparative Literature
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures,
University of South Carolina

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2011 | 4PM
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN CLASSICAL STUDIES LIBRARY
2175 ANGEL HALL, 435 S. STATE, ANN ARBOR

Alexander Beecroft received a BA (Honours) in Classics from University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada)
in 1995 and completed his PhD in Comparative Literature from Harvard University in 2003.
Professor Beecroft specializes in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome and of China to the end of
the Six Dynasties era (AD 600). He is particularly interested in archaic Greek epic, lyric and tragedy,
Roman lyric and elegiac poetry, and Shi Jing, Chu Ci and early shi poetry in China. Other research
focuses include anthropological and linguistic approaches to literature, cross‐cultural poetics, world
literature, models of intercultural literary interaction and the poetics of gender and sexuality in
ancient cultures.  He is the author of Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China: Patterns of Literary
Circulation, published by Cambridge University Press in February 2010.
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