Harry Kamperis
About:
Harry (he/his) obtained his BA in Classics in 2019 from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Following a semester in Cologne, Germany, where he taught Greek and Latin as an Erasmus scholar, he pursued an MA in Classics at the University of Athens (2022). His MA thesis, written under the supervision of Professors Ioannis Konstantakos and Sophia Papaioannou, examined stylistically the language of the stock character of the miles gloriosus in selected plays of Menander, Plautus, and Terence.
During his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he worked as a Research Assistant at the National Hellenic Research Foundation in Greek Paleography and at Democritus University of Thrace on the project “Mythological Itineraries in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.” The latter project sought to document and interpret Greco-Roman myths of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, both to showcase the region’s cultural wealth and to develop an educational application for use in secondary and higher education.
At UCSB, Harry primarily studies Roman Comedy with a view to the genre’s subversion of normative ideologies, addressing questions regarding expectations of marriage, reproduction, and inheritance in comic households. Other interests include the application of horror film theory and psychoanalysis as a productive way of re-reading the literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. His graduate studies are partially funded by the A. G. Leventis Foundation and the Foundation for Education and European Culture.
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