Kostas MyrsiadesKostas Myrsiades, Professor Emeritus of Comparative and Greek literature at West Chester University, is a distinguished translator and Neohellenist and the first American to receive the Gold Medallion (1995) for his translations from the Hellenic Socety of Translators of Literature given annually by the Greek society to a scholar from any country. His work in Greek letters is demonstrated in his 24 published books and numerous articles and translations on modern and ancient Greek literature, among them his two volume readings of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (Bucknell University Press, 2019-2022), his many book length translations of Yannis Ritsos and Takis Papatsonis co-translated with Kimon Friar, and his translations and studies of Karaghiozis, Greek shadow puppet theater co-authored with Linda Myrsiades. He has delivered many invited lectures for such groups as the Jane Globus Seminar Series at Baruch College, the Elytis Chair Lecture Series of Poetry and Neohellenic Studies at Rutgers University, and the Embassy of Greece/National Library of Canada at Ottawa. For twenty-two years, he served as editor of College Literature, a quarterly of literary criticism, theory, and pedagogy (1990-2012), which since 1990 has been the recipient of seven awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals including the Phoenix Award for distinguished editorial achievement. Professor Myrsiades was also co-editor of the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora (1991-2010), one of the leading journals in Neohellenic studies. Read More Read Less