Research Fields: European early modern theatre; medieval Greek poetry and the Cretan Renaissance; travel writing; world literature; cognitive humanities; orality and performance studies; translation.
Education:
Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Harvard University (in progress)
MSt Byzantine & Modern Greek, University of Oxford, (2020)
BA in English and Modern Languages, University of Oxford, (2018)
Publication:
Takas, C. (2026). “Chapter 11 Staging Phantasmata and the Early Modern Imagination: Zeno—an Anonymous Seventeenth-Century Greek Drama”. In From Byzantium to the Early Greek Enlightenment. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423312_012.
Languages: English, Modern Greek, Italian, and Ancient Greek.
Founded as a graduate program in 1904 and joining with the undergraduate Literature Concentration in 2007, Harvard’s Department of Comparative Literature operates at the crossroads of multilingualism, literary study, and media history.
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