Δημοσιεύουμε ένα βιογραφικό του που, μετά από πολλή πίεση, έφτιαξε και μας έδωσε το 2005. Δεν είναι πλήρες. Ακόμη, δεν περιμέναμε αυτήν την εξέλιξη και δεν αξιωθήκαμε να το μεταφράσαμε. Αλλά θα επανέλθουμε.

JOHN CHIOLES

(1) RECORD OF EDUCATION

B.A. (Philosophy/Creative Writing) Hunter College CUNY, 1962.

M.A. (Philosophy) CUNY, 1964.
Advisers: Henry Rosenthal, Peter Caws.

Ph.D. (DRAMATIC ART:/Literature/Criticism/Directing for the Stage)
UC BERKELEY 1973. Advisers: Paul Feyerabend (Philosophy),
Travis Bogard (English/Dramatic Art), Dunbar Ogden (Dramatic Art).

(2) TEACHING

1963- The British Institute on Crete (English, American Literature);
64 Concurrently at the Queen’s School for Girls, Neapolis, Crete
(English Language).

1964 Reader in Rhetoric, Assistant to Prof. Garf Wilson.

1965- Reading Assistant UC BERKELEY (Dramatic Lit)
67 Assistant to Prof. Dunbar Ogden.

1966 Teaching Associate UC Berkeley, Delphi Program; Administration
Assistant to Prof. Travis Bogard.

1969- On the Professoriate faculty of STANFORD UNIVERSITY
80 (Assistant Prof I, 1969-72; Assist. Prof II, 1973-80.)
Taught THEORY, CRITICISM, DRAMA, ACTING, DIRECTING, and
directed many productions.

1976- On leave from Stanford; Visiting Professor, School of
78 Philosophy, THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS.

1980- Visiting Prof, U of Athens to help organize program in English Studies.
81

1981- Visiting Associate Professor, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
85 Comparative Literature.

1984- Elected to a Chair appointment; title: THE PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE,
University of Athens.

1985-1996 Appointed tenured Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, NYU
for the Fall semester of each year.

1997- Professor of Comparative Literature, NYU with specialization in
DRAMA/THEATRE, THEORY, GREEK, PHILOSOPHY.
Continuing to divide my time between the two Universities:
Fall semester, NYU/Spring, U of Athens.

(3) ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS

1965 Theatre Directing Assistantship for production of Antigone and
preparation of text at the Hearst Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley.

1966 Chosen for the co-ordinating team of UC Berkeley’s Program at Delphi, Greece.

1966-69 NDEA, Article IV Fellowship, UC Berkeley.

1970 Stanford Dean’s Fellowship for travel to study European Theatre
in Poland. Summer months.

1971 NEH Junior Fellowship to translate Agamemnon.

1972-74 Book Review Editor for ETJ (Theatre Journal.)

1974 Mellon Foundation Grant. Stanford unable to proceed with leave
in order to accept award.

1975 Fall release from teaching in order to translate and prepare an
Oresteia Trilogy script for performance.

1976-78 Brought to help organize the Dept. of English Studies
at the University of Athens.

1981 NEA Grant for the writing of Agapenor, an opera libretto.

1983 PEN/NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS, Syndicated
Fiction Project, prize for short fiction.

1984 Appointed co-editor, with Edmund Keeley, of the Greek Issue of
THE JOURNAL OF LITERARY TRANSLATION,
Columbia University Press.

1994 Appointed Research Fellow, Fall semester, in Hellenic Studies at
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.

1995 Awarded a NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS grant as
writer/translator for a collection of stories.

1999 Honored as past President by The Modern Greek Studies Association
at Princeton University, November

(4) PUBLICATIONS

(a) Books: (Scholarly/Critical)

2004 Dec. Romeo the Pot-head and Juliet the Snitch, FICTION, Kastaniotis, Athens.

2001 (summer) Sophocles: A Double Vision of the Law, University of Athens Press.

2001 (Fall) Theory of Dramatic Action (in Greek), Kastaniotis Publishers, Athens.

1998 (Fall) Mythiko Theatro, Politiki Phoni: O TRAGODOS AESCHYLOS (in Greek)
Kastaniotis Publishers, Athens.

1996 Theory of Literature (in Greek), Kastaniotis Publishers, Athens. 2nd edition.
1997 ” ” 3rd edition with revisions.

1995 Aeschylus: Mythic Theatre, Political Voice, University of Athens Publications.

1978 A Phenomenological Inquiry into Some of the Literary-Dramatic
Aspects of Beckett, Shakespeare, and Sophocles.
University of Athens Press, monograph.

1975-79—Three early books of collected lectures at STANFORD UNIVERSITY (1. “American Views on Criticism I, Aristotle to Emerson” 2. “Am Views on Criticism II Whitman to the Present” 3. “Methods of Literary Criticism”) All for teaching purposes at the Ph.D. level.)

(b) BOOKS/FRAGMENTS IN BOOKS (Literature/Translation, etc.)

1995 «Before the Firing Squad,» a story reprinted in a College textbook,
LITERATURE: READING AND WRITING with questions for study,
etc., ed. V. Roberts.
Prentice-Hall, Inc. (The above was reprinted in a similar textbook by
Simon and Schuster in 1992, both reprinted from the following:)
(1985) «Before the Firing Squad,» The AvailablePress/PEN-
NEA Short Story Collection, ed. Anne Tyler, Ballantine Books, (paper)
Random House.

1993 «Poetry and Politics: The Greek Cultural Dilemma,” in Ritual, Power,
and the Body, ed. C. Nadia Seremetakis, Pella Publishers, New York.

1998 Greek translation of the above book, Livanis Publishers, Athens.

1988 “Aeschylus and O’Neill: A Phenomenological View,” in
Critical Approaches to O’Neill, AMS Press, New York.

1986 The Third Wedding Wreath (a novel by Costas Taktsis),
Translator with a long Introduction, Hermes Publishers for EC, Athens.

1982 Antigone (A Version based on Sophocles),
New York Shakespeare Festival, Public Theatre Scripts.

1979 Twenty Contemporary Greek Poets, co-editor and translator,
Wire Press, San Francisco.

(c.) ARTICLES

2005—SIX ARTICLES ON LITERARY AND CULTURAL SUBJECTS IN “TA NEA”.
2005—A SERIES (5) TV INTERVIEWS ON MY BOOK OF STORIES
2005—THREE PRINT-INTERVIEWS ON THE SAME BOOK…AND 5 REVIEWS.
2005-06—TEXT OF EURIPIDES’ “MEDEA” COMMISSIONED BY THE JUILLIARD
SCHOOL…NEW TRANSLATION.
2005—SECOND EDITION OF MY BOOK OF STORIES

2000-2005—17 ARTICLES ON LITERARY AND CULTURAL SUBJECTS IN “TA NEA”.
2000 “Washington Square” in TA NEA, Athens, February
2000 “On Kay Cicellis’ Fiction,” in TA NEA, Athens, May
2000 “Underworld and the fiction of Don DeLillo, in TA NEA, Athens, June
2000 “PARADISO” (short story), in TA NEA, Athens, August
1999 “Derrida and Deconstruction,” in TA NEA, Athens, 18 Sept. 1999
1999 “Ezra Pound and The Poets’ Corner,” TA NEA, Athens , November
1999 “Sensation at the Brooklyn Museum,” TA NEA, Athens, December
1998 “Omeros: Walcott and the Tradition,” in SYSIPHUS AND ELDORADO,
eds. Timothy Reiss & Kamau Brathwaite.

1998 “Share in the Sun”, book-review article. In ENDEFKTIRIO,
Thessaloniki, February 1998.

1998 Poetic Theory: the poems of Thanassi Hatzopoulos. ANTI,
September 1998.

1998 On Translating Thomas Pynchon. VIMA, Athens, Dec. 27, 1998.

1997 (Summer/Fall) Review articles on (1) two books on Ethics;
(2) on a Theory of Culture; (3) two pieces on the Greek Novel;
(3) on Greek Poetry; (5) On Thomas Pynchon. All of these
appeared in Greek in the weekly TO VIMA.

1996/7 Two pieces in the Greek Journal POIESE appear in December.

1994 «On a Russian Medea,» REVMATA, Summer. (in Greek)
1993 «Philosophy Speaks Greek: on Giorgos Veltsos,» Revmata, Fall. (in Greek)
1993 «On Peter Stein’s Theatre,» Revmata Summer.
1992 «Poetry and Politics: A Greek Cultural Dilemma,”
JOURNAL OF MODERN HELLENISM, no. 9.

1991 «Keep the Mountain to Your Left,» EMERGENCES, 3 & 4 (fiction).
1991 «The Discourse Brothers, Limited: Burroughs and Derrida,»
DIAVAZO, October. (in Greek)
1989 «Giorgou Veltsou: E Me-Koinoniologia: Analytike tou
Meta-modernismou,» POLIORKIA. (in Greek)
1988 «Literature as Consensus of Now Interpreters,»
JOURNAL OF MODERN HELLENISM, no. 5.
1987 «O Thanatos ki’o Hemingway,» POLIORKIA. (in Greek)
1987 «Keimena sten Autoktonia,» POLIORKIA. (in Greek)
1987 «On Poetics: The Ostensible/Real Dichotomy,»
JOURNAL OF MODERN HELLENISM, no. 4
1987 On Gregory Juzdanis’s The Poetics of Cavafy,
KENYON REVIEW, review article. .
1986 «E Aphigematike Graphe tou T. Williams,» DIAVAZO,
March 16. (in Greek)
1985 «Ston Taktsi,» LEXI. (in Greek)
1985 «The Socratic Revolt and Cavafy,»
JOURNAL OF MODERN HELLENISM, no. 2.
1985 «Love and Revolution in Euripides’ Trojan Women,»
(in Proceedings) published by The European
Cultural Center, Delphi, 1987.
1984 «Eros and Revolution in the Poetry of Cavafy,»
JOURNAL OF MODERN HELLENISM, no. 1.
1984 «The Context of Aeschylus’ The Persians,» INTERNATIONAL
SYMPOSIUM: ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA TODAY, (in Proceedings)
published by The European Cultural Center, Delphi, 1987.
1983 «Oedipus at Colonus: From Guilt to Absolvement to
Apotheosis,» BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC MAG., Fall.
1983 «Current Methods of Literary Criticism,» POLIORKIA (in Greek).
1983 «Eros in Cavafy,» LEXI. (special issue, in Greek).
1981 Sophocles’s Antigone, an English translation for
performance, before the «New Version» performed in 1982.
PUBLIC THEATRE SCRIPTS.
1981 Euripides’s Electra, performance version for staged
reading. PUBLIC THEATRE SCRIPTS.
1980 «Aeschylus and O’Neill: A Phenomenological View,»
COMPARATIVE DRAMA, 14:2 (Summer 1980).
(d) STORIES, etc. (a selection):
“ROMEO THE POTHEAD AND JULIET THE SNITCH” A BOOK OF
STORIES, KASTANIOTIS PUBLISHERS, ATHENS, DEC. 2004,
SECOND EDITION 2005.

1999 “WAR FRIENDS” (the first chapter of my novel) appeared in
THE HARVARD REVIEW, Summer 1999.
1999 AWAITING THE BARBARIANS by C.P. Cafafy. My version appeared
in THE KENYON REVIEW, Fall 1999.
1999 THREE POEMS BY CAVAFY, my versions, appeared in
MONDOGRECO, Boston, Fall 1999.
1993 «O Koutalianos» (fiction, in Greek), LEXI, Spring.
1991 “Keep the Mountain to Your Right,” (fiction)
EMERGENCES 3 & 4.
1990 «Things That Come to Be and Not Be,» (fiction)
KENYON REVIEW, New Series, V. XII, no. 1.
1984 «Ode to Antigone,» (poem) CITY 9/ INTERNATIONAL
WRITERS ANTHOLOGY, New York.
1983 «Before the Firing Squad,» PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Project.
Published in Sunday supplements, first appearing in Rocky Mountain
News, Sun., Aug. 21, 1983, Denver, Colorado; then reprinted in
several books (see above.)
1979 «Five Poems,» COFFEEHOUSE JOURNAL.
(e) TRANSLATIONS (a selection):

1964 Nikos Kazantzakis: Japan-China, Simon and Schuster.
(Rendered about three-quarters of the ms. including
«Hideyoshi», a long poem as centerpiece of book.)
1980 Dimitri Kehaides’s two plays, Wedding Band and
Backgammon for production at BBC.
1985 Costas Taktsis: The Third Wedding Wreath, HERMES.
1987 Dimitri Kehaides and Eleni Haviara, Laurels and
Bitter Laurels for a British production.
1997 Two chapters in my transltion from Elytis’ EN LEUKO
will appear in the book GREECE, edited by Artemis Leontis
forthcoming from WHEREABOUTS PRESS, S.F.

In the interim, and since, a number of translations:
scripts for performance, twelve ancient Greek plays,
Moliere’s Malade Imaginaire, among others. In
addition, a fair number of poems translated from
the Modern Greek have appeared in various places,
from THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY with a Seferis poem to
THE COFFEE HOUSE JOURNAL with an Elytis piece.

(5) SOME LECTURES AND PAPERS SINCE 1990

1990 International Philosophy Symposium at Karpathos.
«On Beckett, Shakespeare, and Sophocles.»
School of Philosophy, THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS.
1991 «Conceptions of the City,» Onassis Center Symposium on the City.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
1991 Gave a seminar on «Comparative Literature and Hellenic Studies»
and a Public Lecture on «Ancient
Historiography and Fiction» on a week-long Visiting
Scholar appointment at PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
1992 «Hellenic Studies as a Comparative Discipline.»
OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY.
1992 The Linos Politis Annual Public Lecture, CUNY
GRADUATE CENTER, The European Center. «On Greek
Poetry and Politics.»
1993 «Reading Fiction» at CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Writers’
Seminar.
1994 «Historiography and the Modern Greek Novel,»
and an evening of reading my fiction.
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
1994 «The Dramaturg and Euripides’ Electra.» At a two-day
Symposium held on the play and on my English stage
version then in full production at San Antonio.
TRINITY UNIVERSITY.
1994 «On the Novels of Taktsis, Valtinos, and Cicelli.»
At HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
1995 «On the Greek Novel,» at the Onassis Center,
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY.
1995 «On the Dramaturgy of the Prometheus Bound,» at the
International Conference on Ancient Tragedy, DELPHI
1996 “On Travel Writing: From Pausanius to the New Poets”.
At The UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS and Cultural Center.

(6) DIRECTING FOR THE STAGE

Listed here are a cross-section of directing assignments of which there have
been forty-six over a twenty-five-year period.
2002 ISMINE BY RITSOS, STATE THEATRE KALAMATA
2005 A NUMBER BY CARYL CHURCHIL, ATHENS COMMERCIAL
1991 IPHIGENEIA IN AULIS, Herakleion, Crete.
1990 WAITING FOR GODOT, University of Athens.
1988 MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, University of Athens.
1987 THE BACCHAE, Kalymnos, Greece.
1986 THE ORESTES, Kalymnos, Greece.
1982 ANTIGONE, (my own version), with Joe Chaikin, Public Theatre, N.Y.
1981 PIAF, by Pam Gems, Commercial Company, Athens.
1979 THE PERSIANS (my translation), Stanford University Workshop.
1977 THE ACHARNIANS, Kalymnos, Greece.
1976 THE ORESTEIA TRILOGY (my translation), Stanford Repertory Theatre.
1976 CORIOLAN by B. Brecht, Stanford Repertory Theatre.
1975 THE HOSTAGE by B. Behan, The State Theatre, Greece.
1974 PUNTILA AND HIS HIRED MAN by B. Brecht, Stanford Repertory Theatre.
1973 THE ARECHITECT AND THE EMPEROR OF ASSYRIA, Arabal, Stanford.
1972 MARIANA PINEDA by Lorca, The Synodinou Company, Athens.
1971 TROILUS AND CRESSIDA, Shakespeare, Stanford Repertory Theatre.
1971 IMAGINARY INVALID (my version), San Francisco Theatre Company.
1970 LYSISTRATA, (my translation), Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
1970 HAPPY DAYS, Beckett, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
1969 CAMINO REAL, T. Willims, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
1969 ELECTRA, Euripides, Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

(7) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
1994-1997 President, MODERN GREEK STUDIES ASSOCIATION (MGSA), an academic
association affiliated with MLA.
1991-1993 Executive Board Member, MGSA
1987-1990 Executive Board Member, MGSA
1984-1986 Officer, MGSA

(8) UNIVERSITY SERVICE AT NYU, selective (separate from service at U. of Athens)

2002-05 DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES
2000-01 Director of Undergraduate Studies
2002-2005 Director of Undergraduate Studies
1999 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall) for Comparative Literature
1998 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall) for Comparative Literature
1997 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall) for Comparative Literature.
1997 Tenure Committee for CAS, Comparative Literature.
1996 Director of Undergraduate Studies (Fall) for Comparative Literature.
1996 Tenure Committee for Tisch School of the Arts, Drama Department.
1995-96 Search Committee for the Onassis Center’s position Modern Greek
Literature.
1993-94 The Dean’s Search Committee for the Director of the Onassis Center.
1990 Director of Graduate Studies
1990 Acting Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature
1984-1988, 1991, 1996-7 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Literature.

SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS: Vice-chair of Department (2 periods)
Head of Division of Literature and Culture (2 periods).

1997 Summer, full professional production of my new translation of Euripides’
BACCHAE, at Reality Theatre, Columbus, Ohio.

1997 December: The Juilliard School chooses my version of ANTIGONE (New York
Shakespeare Festival Scripts) to teach to its entire first year class.

2003 Lecture at Juilliard on the Ancient Theatre

2004-2005 On the occasion of the fiction book publication: 2 TV interviews, 3 newspaper interview (Athens), several readings, INCLUDING A READING AT NYU.