*The ‘CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature’ -*
*“Greek Authors 19th-21st centuries”*
*now online at
moderngreekliterature.org
<https://moderngreekliterature.org>*
Dear Colleague,
Writing on behalf of our project team, I’m pleased to let you know that
the *database “The CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: a bibliography for
the English-speaking world”* is now open for consultation, at *moderngreekliterature.org
<https://moderngreekliterature.org>*.
The CENSUS is a significant international project that *facilitates
access to modern Greek literature for speakers of English* by providing
references to all *English-language translations* of modern Greek
literature and to all *studies in English* that relate to modern Greek
literature from the twelfth century AD to the present. The database is
available under Open Access and will be free henceforth to all. Researchers
will be able to search for information and to access texts and original
sources directly, where copyright allows. The website is fully extensible.
We trust that *librarians curating collections in Hellenic Studies* will
consider the CENSUS database a *valuable new resource*.
*We are hoping that you will consider adding a link to the CENSUS database
in your library’s collection and will include it in relevant subject guides*.
Further information regarding the CENSUS and its history can be found
below. A print edition and further online sections of the CENSUS are
forthcoming. We hope for now, though, that you will share this information
with any faculty members, researchers, or students at your institution who
you think might benefit from the resource.
We look forward to hearing from you. As we hope to keep record of the
institutions that have catalogued the CENSUS (or have made use of the
database in other ways), please let us know when you will have incorporated
the CENSUS in your collection. We welcome your comments and questions
regarding the database. Please feel free to reach out to us at
*census(a)moderngreekliterature.org
<census(a)moderngreekliterature.org>*g>*.
With thanks,
Dia Philippides
Professor Emerita
Dept. of Classical Studies
Boston College
https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/schools/mcas/departments/classics/people/faculty-…
https://censusofmoderngreekliterature.org
https://moderngreekliterature.org (launched Apr. 5, 2022)
*ANNOUNCEMENT – PRESS RELEASE*
*The ‘CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature’ -*
*“Greek Authors 19th-21st centuries”*
*now online at
moderngreekliterature.org
<https://moderngreekliterature.org>*
The website “The CENSUS of Modern Greek Literature: a bibliography for the
English-speaking world” is now open for consultation, at
moderngreekliterature.org.
The CENSUS is a significant international project that *facilitates
access to modern Greek literature* for speakers of English by providing
references to all *English-language translations* of modern Greek
literature and to all *studies in English* that relate to modern Greek
literature from the twelfth century AD to the present.
First posted on the CENSUS website is the “*Greek
Authors 19th-21st
centuries*” section — made available on the website under *Open Access*.
This initial section includes references to *800 Greek literary authors*
(approximately *7,000 entries*). This most recent phase of the project
was completed, with the support of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation,
through the collaboration of two ad hoc teams of researchers on two sides
of the Atlantic: technical development and project administration in
Boston, data curation by fellowship recipients under the aegis of the
Marilena Laskaridis Chair of Modern Greek Studies at the University of
Amsterdam.
A first presentation was held online on April 5, 2022, as part of the
activities of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation within the framework of
Greece's bicentennial Initiative 1821-2021
<https://www.protovoulia21.gr/draseis/census/>. The CENSUS website was
presented by Dia Philippides, Professor Emerita, Boston College (USA) and
Ben Florin, Web Developer, Boston College Libraries, with a Q&A session
moderated by Peter Klapes, Boston College MA ’22. On that same day the new
website was launched. A video-recording of the April 5, 2022 presentation
(including a description of the project and a demo of the new website) is
available here <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kS_MDTI-j0> (
youtube.com/watch?v=5kS_MDTI-j0
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kS_MDTI-j0>).
In its prospective audience, the CENSUS aims to function as a standard
work of reference for students and faculty in Modern Greek Studies, as a
guide to translators, and an innovative resource for libraries building
collections in Hellenic Studies. It also hopes to attract greater numbers
of scholars (in other disciplines), editors, publishers, and general
readers everywhere in the English-speaking world to the contemporary
literature of Greece.
Access to the CENSUS website will be free henceforth to all. Researchers
will be able to search for information and to access texts and original
sources directly, where copyright allows. The website is fully extensible.
The CENSUS research project is directed by Dia
Philippides, in
collaboration with Wim Bakker, Professor Emeritus, Department of Byzantine
and Modern Greek Philology, University of Amsterdam. Ben Florin, Web
Developer, Boston College Libraries, is the developer of the CENSUS website.
The project’s current core team also includes: Peter
Klapes (project
manager) and three researchers appointed by Maria Boletsi, Endowed
Professor, Marilena Laskaridis Chair of Modern Greek Studies, University of
Amsterdam: Anthi Argyriou, art historian and curator, PhD candidate in
Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam; Yiorgos-Evgenios
Douliakas, PhD candidate in Cultural Analysis at the University of
Amsterdam and instructor on literature and justice at Leiden University;
Dr. Haralampos Passalis, guest lecturer in the Department of Modern Greek
Studies at the University of Amsterdam and experienced lexicographer.
Significant collaboration in recent years has been provided by: the Boston
College Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group, and by researcher Michaela
Karambini-Iatrou in Athens and Dr. Alfred Vincent in Sydney.
The research team of the CENSUS gratefully acknowledges the contributions
of its supporters and collaborators, and the endorsement the project has
received from the Modern Greek Studies Association (of North America).
The CENSUS website opens a new window on Greek literature of the last nine
centuries and provides a vital portal to modern Greek literature for an
international English-speaking audience. Further information on the CENSUS
project is available at
censusofmoderngreekliterature.org.
The new CENSUS website can be accessed at:
moderngreekliterature.org
The development team can be reached at: census(a)moderngreekliterature.org
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