Professor Gonda Van SteenKoraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, Dept. of Classics, King’s College London + Director, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, United KingdomEmail: gondavs@gmail.comProfilePublicationsExpertiseProfileGonda Van Steen holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at King’s College London. She is the author of five books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece; Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire; Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands; and Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974. Her latest book, Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (2019), takes the reader into the uncharted terrain of Greek adoption stories that become paradigmatic of Cold War politics and history. Forthcoming is The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951.ResearchPublicationsMost recent book: Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (University of Michigan Press, 2019). Forthcoming is The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951.ExpertiseAncient Greek language and literature, especially drama Modern Greek language, literature, history, and memory, especially relating to adoption and the public sphere Modern productions of classical Greek theater: performance criticism, reception, authoritarianism and censorship, gender studies, theater and its impact on the history of ideas, cultural study and criticism Western travelers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire, Philhellenism and Orientalism Greek archaeology, heritage studies, and the politics of the past