Gerasimus Katsan

Candidate statement

Gerasimus Katsan is Associate Professor of Modern Greek at Queens College, CUNY and Coordinator of the Modern Greek Program. He has formerly served as Chair of the Department of European Languages and Literatures and as the Director of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He is the author of History and Ideology in Greek Postmodernist Fiction, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2013), and co-edited the volume Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film and Popular Culture, Lexington (2019). He previously served as Secretary of the MGSA Executive Board for two terms (2014-2020), and on various committees, including: Innovative Initiatives (2012-2016 and 2020-2023); Ad hoc Committee on Member Recognition (2006-2008); Administration Committee (2006-2008); Symposium Local Arrangements Committee (2006-2007); Program Committee, 25th Biennial Symposium (2016-2017); Reader/evaluator for the MGSA Best Dissertation Prize (2011); and as Chair, Edmund Keeley Book Prize Selection Committee (2017).