Gregory Jusdanis is a Humanities Distinguished Professor and Director of Modern Greek Studies Faculty of the Ohio University.
Jusdanis is teaching Modern Greek literature and culture, Travel, World Literature, Identities and Friendship.
Jusdanis’ areas of expertise lie in Modern Greek Literature and Culture, C.P. Cavafy, Aesthetics, Cultural Studies, Nationalism and Friendship.
He is also the author of several books such as “Fiction Agonistes”, “The necessary Nation”, “Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture” and “The Poetics of Cavafy”.
He has earned numerous awards during his career. In 1992 he earned John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, in 1994 the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship and in 2003 the Distinguished Scholar Award from the Ohio State University.
In 2006 he was awarded as a Humanities Distinguished Professor, in 2011 he earned the American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship and in 2012 he got the Onassis Visiting Scholar from the University of Michigan.
In 2014 Jusdanis earned the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece.
Gregory Jusdanis got his B.A. at the McMaster University in 1978 and earned his Ph.D. at the Birmingham University in 1983.
