Graduate Student Board Member

Amanda Kubic is a current PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Amanda graduated from UNC Chapel Hill in 2016 with a BA in Comparative Literature and Classics and from Washington University in St. Louis in 2018 with an MA in Classics. Amanda also holds an MA in Greek from the University of Michigan and is pursuing a graduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Amanda has taught courses in world literature, college writing, and elementary modern Greek. Her dissertation, "Animating Antiquity: Classical (Dis)embodiments by Modern Women," is a critical engagement with Greco-Roman antiquity and its reception; in this comparative project, Amanda analyzes modernist and postmodern works by women in poetry and dance, in English and modern Greek, demonstrating how they perform fragmented, choral, metamorphosing, and phantom aspects of the classical Greco-Roman corpus. As an MGSA graduate student representative, Amanda hopes to foster interdisciplinary conversation among graduate students interested in all aspects of the study of modern Greece, Cyprus, and the Greek diaspora. She aims to continue building a sense of community among MGSA scholars of all levels, with particular emphasis on increasing graduate student engagement in MGSA activities and forums.

Angelo Nicholas Laskaris is a third year PhD student in History working under the supervision of Professor Athanasios Gekas at York University (Toronto, Canada). His current research investigates childhood memories and experiences of Greek Canadians during the 1940’s in Greece. He takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of oral history, migration, and transnational studies. He holds an MA in History from YorkU (2020) and a BA in History & Political Science from the University of Toronto (2019). He is the recipient of the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Graduate Fellowship in Modern Greek Studies. Beyond his academic work, Angelo is a Greek language instructor with the Peel District School Board and is an active volunteer with the Graduate Students Historical Association at YorkU serving in the past as secretary. Through these past and current experiences, Angelo aims to work closely with MGSA members and committees to achieve the goals of the organization as the Graduate Student Representative. Angelo plans to liaise with graduate students to inform and relay the activities of the organization and be an active voice at Executive Board meetings. Through such commitment, Angelo hopes to continue to bring forth fresh ideas and a positive impact that will benefit graduate students like himself and members of the organization as a whole. As a Graduate Student Representative for the MGSA, it will be a privilege to proactively advocate and support fellow peers, members, and neohellenists across North America.

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.