#  Johanna Hanink 

CHS Associate in Hellenic Studies. Member of the CHS "Fellowship in Philhellenism" Academic Committee

Professor of Classics at Brown University

 

 

 



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Johanna Hanink is a professor of classics at Brown University, where she also teaches in the Modern Greek Studies program. Her books include *Lycurgan Athens and the Making of Classical Tragedy* (Cambridge 2014), *The Classical Debt: Greek Antiquity in an Era of Austerity* (Harvard 2017), and a translation of speeches from Thucydides's *History of the Peloponnesian War* (Princeton 2019) (issued in Greek as *Θουκυδίδης: Περί πολέμου*: Dioptra 2020). Her writing has appeared in the *New York Times*, the *Times Literary Supplement*, *ThePressProject* and *Ο αναγνώστης*. Her edition of translations of works by Andreas Karkavitsas, *The Archeologist and Selected Sea Stories* (2021), marked the first translation of a Greek author from the Greek nation state to appear in the Penguin Classics series. Together with Antonis Ellinas (University of Cyprus) she is the co-editor of the *Journal of Modern Greek Studies*.