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Brookline, MA 02445
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Earned degrees
1992-2003 : Ph. in Latin Linguistics
1988-1992 : PhD in Classical Greek Philology [Paris IV - Sorbonne]
1990-1991: Diploma of advanced studies of Theatrical Studies (D.E.A.) [University Paris III - Sorbonne- Nouvelle]
1987-1988 : Diploma of advanced studies of Classics [University Paris IV- Sorbonne]
1986-1987 : Master's of Classics [University Paris IV- Sorbonne]
1981-1986 : Diploma of General studies and Bachelor of Classics [University Paris IV- Sorbonne]
1985-1986 : Master's of Linguistics [University Paris V - Univ. Réné Descartes]
1983-1984 : Bachelor of Linguistics [University Paris V - Univ. Réné Descartes]
Specialization
• Greek Historical Semantics.
• Latin Philology and Linguistics.
• Greek dialectology and epigraphy.
• Greek and Latin Papyrology.
• Pragmatics - Discourse analysis.
Subspecialties
• Indo-European linguistics.
• Italic and Celtic linguistics, philology and culture.
• Mycenaean philology and linguistics.
• Homeric language.
• Greek and Latin language and literature with special emphasis on epic poetry, tragedy and comedy.
• Greek and Latin classical and post-classical comparative philology and linguistics, with special emphasis on the language of the New Testament and the Greek texts, as translated by Latin Christian authors.
• Byzantine Greek palaeography and textual criticism.
• General and Structural Linguistics.
• Sociolinguistics.
Areas of interests
• Medieval French language, epic and romance.
• Drama history.
• History of Science - Ancient Medicine.
• Cognitive Science.
Studied with
Jean Beaujeu (Sorbonne), A. Blanchard (Sorbonne), Jacques Bompaire (Sorbonne), Pierre Flobert (Sorbonne), Michèle Fruyt (Sorbonne), Pierre Grimal (Sorbonne), Jacques Hellegourc'h (Sorbonne), Jacques Jouanna (Sorbonne), André Mandouze (Sorbonne), Alain Michel (Sorbonne), J.-L. Perpillou (Sorbonne), Guy Serbat (Sorbonne), Jean Sirinelli (Sorbonne), Jean Tallairdat (Sorbonne).
Françoise Bader (Sorbonne, EPHE IVème Section), Philippe Gauthier (EPHE IVème Section), J. Irigoin (Sorbonne, EPHE IVème Section, Collège de France), Michel Lejeune (EPHE IVème Section), Pierre Lévêque (Univ. of Besançon), André Martinet (EPHE IVème Section), Olivier Masson (EPHE IVème Section), Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales).
Michel Foucault (Collège de France), Jacqueline de Romilly (Collège de France), Jean-Pierre Vernant (Collège de France), Paul Veyne (Collège de France).
J. Jasanoff (Harvard University), C. Watkins (Harvard University).
Other references
D. Boedecker (Brown University), Fr. Bovon (Harvard Divinity School), Alan Bowman (Oxford University), Kevin Clinton (Cornell University). D. Konstan (Brown University), Richard Martin (Stanford University), G. Nagy (Harvard University), W. Wyatt (Brown University).
Academic appointments
1998-2006 : Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, Hellenic College.
1997- : Visiting Scholar, Brown University, Dept. of Classics.
Summer 2004 : Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Dept. of Classics.
2001-2003 : Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Dept. of Linguistics.
Summer 2001 : Research Associate at the Center for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford University.
Fall 1998 : Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Dept. of Classics .
1996-1998 : Visiting Professor, Dept. of Classics, Hellenic College.
1992-1996 : Recipient of two post-doctoral research positions in Papyrology (Sorbonne University - Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques - France) and Greek Epigraphy (Centre de Recherches d'Histoire Ancienne-University of Franche-Comté-Identité, Différences, Intégration dans les Sociétés de l'Antiquité (IDISA), URA 338).
1985-1988 : Researcher in the field of Greek Cypriote linguistics, philology and social anthropology at the Center of Cypriote Studies (Univ. of Paris X Nanterre).
1984 : Professional training in linguistics at the National Center of Scientific Research, in seminars dealing with syntax, morphology, phonetics and sociolinguistics.
Activities
1998-2000 : Co-editor in literature for the Journal of Modern Hellenism.
1989- Presses, Journals, Organizations and Programs Served as Collaborator/ Contributor / Reviewer /Consultant :
• Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, Ohio University - Greek Epigraphy Project, Cornell University (Packard Humanities Institute Project, CD-ROM release)
• The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (Oxford University)
• Linguistics Research Center and Indo-European Documentation Center, Scholar's Publications (The University of Texas at Austin)
• Les Etudes Classiques • Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire
• Antiquité Classique
• Orbis, Bulletin International de documentation linguistique, (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Centre International de dialectologie générale - Editions Peeters)
• Bibliothèque d'Etudes Classiques
• Information Grammaticale
• Scholia Reviews
• Revue Langues et Linguistique
• Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Philologie im Netz
• Revue Québecquoise de Linguistique
• Bulletin of American Society of Papyrologists
• The Classical Review
• Language
• The Canadian Journal of Linguistics / La Revue Canadienne de Linguistique
• Journal of Semantics
• Journal of Early Christian Studies
• La parola del passato
• Plekos
• Athenaeum
• Rivista du Cultura Classica e Medievale
• Latomus
• Lexis
• The American Journal of Philology
• The Classical Bulletin
• Gerion
• Faventia
• Studia philologica valentina
• Chronique d'Égypte
• Minerva
• Bulletin de médecine ancienne (École de Médecine de Paris)
• World Journal of Surgery
Research Centers served as Member / Collaborator
• Centre Alfred ERNOUT de Linguistique latine (CNRS - Sorbonne - E. A. 3549) et ateliers du GDR 2650 «Linguistique latine»
• CNRS - UMR 8062 Médecine grecque (Sorbonne)
• Associated Member of the A. Richard Diebold Center for Indo-European Language and Culture, Linguistics Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Honors and Awards
Fall 2004 : Guest Visiting Scholar, MIT, Processing Language, Department of Brain and Cognitive Science.
2001 : International Personality of the Year 2001 in recognition to services to Classical Scholarship, Warrant from the International Biographical Centre of Cambridge, England.
1999 : International Diploma of Honor for outstanding achievements in classical scholarship (American Biographical Institute).
1997- : Guest Visiting Scholar, Harvard Divinity School, Dissertation Doctoral Seminar of the New Testament.
Professor Perdicoyianni-Paleologou has also obtained:
• a doctoral thesis of Latin Linguistics with a grade of highest distinction with the unanimous congratulations of the panel of academic examiners and with approval of the publication of the thesis as it is.
• a doctoral thesis of Classical Greek Philology with a grade of high distinction.
• a Master's of Classics with a grade of highest distinction.
• a Master's of Linguistics with a grade of highest distinction.
Professional Memberships
Past Memberships
• Center of Cypriot Studies
• Canadian Association of University Teachers
• Chronicle of Higher Education
• International Society for the Classical Tradition (ISCT, Boston University, Institute for the Classical Tradition)
Active Memberships
• International Association of Papyrology
• International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• Association of Linguistics of Paris
• Grammatical Information (Sorbonne)
• Association Guillaume Bude (Belles-Lettres)
• American Philological Association
• Vita Latina (Sorbonne-Montpellier)
• American Society of Papyrologists
• Linguistic Society of America
• American Association for Neo-Latin Studies
• Canadian Linguistics Association
• Classical Association of the Atlantic States
• American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy
• The French Cultural Center (Boston)
• Canadian Society for the history of Medicine
• International Society for the History of Medicine
• American Association for the History of Medicine
• Cognitive Science Society
Invited Lectures
• «The anaphoric use of o, ode, outos, ekeinos, autos in the first Origen's Homilies to Jeremy, as translated by St. Jerome (is, hic, iste, ille )». Presented at the Harvard Divinity School (Spring 1998).
• «The anthroponymic system of the Greeks and Trojans in Homer». Presented at the Department of Classics, Brown University (Spring 1999).
• «The conversational exchange in Plautus : ego/nos vs tu/vos». Presented at the Program of Indo-European Studies (PIES), co-sponsored with the Department of Classics, University of California, at Los Angeles (UCLA) (Spring 2003).
• «The exophoric usages of demonstratives in Aristophanes and Plautus». Presented at the Department of Classics, University of California, at Santa Barbara (UCSB) (Spring 2003).
• «Temporal and spatial deixis in Greek tragedy». Presented at the Department of Classics, co-sponsored with the Departments of Linguistics and Theater Studies, Georgetown University (Spring 2004).
• «The structure of utterance in Euripides' and Seneca's plays». Presented at the Department of Classics, Brown University (Spring 2004).
• «The anaphoric use of o, outos, ekeinos, autos in Origen's Homilies on Jeremy, as translated by St Jerome (is, hic, iste, ille)». Presented at the Department of Linguistics, Boston College (Fall 2006).
Teaching experience
A. Graduate level
I. Center for Cypriot Studies (1986-1989)
1. Linguistic aspects of the cypriot dialect.
2. Diachronic and synchronic study of the study of the structure of the cypriot syllabic inscription.
3. The utterance in cypriot syllabic inscriptions.
4. Onomastic problems in cypriot syllabic inscriptions.
II. Holy Cross - Greek Orthodox School of Theology (2006)
1. Liturgical Greek.
B. Undergraduate level
I. Hellenic College (1996-2006)
1. Beginning Latin.
2. Roman civilization.
3. Intermediate Latin.
4. Classical Greek Historiography.
5. Directed study program in reading in ancient Greek.
6. History of Latin literature : from the origins to the Early Christian Period.
7. Classical Linguistics.
8. Greek and Latin Papyrology.
9. Greek epigraphy- dialectology.
10. Ecclesiastical Latin linguistics: Syntax.
11. A diachronic study of the Greek language from the hellenistic period to the present time.
12. History of Classical Greek Scholarship.
13. Modern Greek Course.
14. Attic Prose.
15. New Testament Greek (I-II).
16. Ancient Greek History and Culture.
17. Greek and Byzantine Palaeography.
18. Selected Platonic readings.
19. Readings in Latin poetry.
20. Readings in ancient Greek drama.
Languages
• Ancient and Modern Greek
• Ancient and Modern French
• Archaic, Classical and Medieval Latin
• Italic and Celtic languages
• Hittite
• Sanskrit
• German
• Italian
• Elementary Japanese