Grace Monk

Candidate statement

Grace Monk is a second-year graduate student in Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is currently interested in Modern Greek literature and the way ideas are translated between Greece and Latin America in the 19th-20th centuries. At Princeton, she is an enthusiastic member of the Hellenic Studies community and can frequently be found at the Seeger Center or hosting the Greek language table. She was the secretary for the International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies last year, and also helped run a Princeton undergraduate seminar in Cyprus over the summer. She became interested in Modern Greek studies as an undergraduate at Brown through work with Greek street artists, many of whom are still close friends and colleagues, and before graduate school, she worked at Anatolia College in Thessaloniki. Her best projects emerge from conversations among interested scholars, and she would enjoy the chance to work with the MGSA.