Georgios (Yiorgos) Anagnostou is a Professor and the Director of the Modern Greek Program at The Ohio State University. His research interests include modern Greek studies and American ethnic studies, with a focus on Greek America. His published research covers a broad range of subjects, including film, documentary, ethnography, folklore, literature, history, sociology, and public humanities. His work has appeared in Melus, Diaspora, Ethnicities, Italian American Review, Journal of American Folklore, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Modern Hellenism, Modern Greek Studies (Australia & New Zealand), and The Classical Bulletin among others. He is the author of Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Ohio University Press, 2009), whose translation in Greek is forthcoming from Nisos Publishers. Also, two poetry collections. He is a co-editor of the volume Comparisons, Encounters, Identities: Italian and Greek Americans in Conversation, forthcoming from Fordham University Press.

Since the late 1990s he has been serving the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) in various capacities, including the organizing and co-organizing of two Symposia. He has co-founded the Greek American Studies Resource Portal (2005-present), whose mission is to share with the public information about the scholarship and the arts in Greek America (https://www.mgsa.org/Resources/port.html). Since 2017 he is the editor of the online journal Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, which features Greek American scholarship, poetry and essays (http://ergon.scienzine.com/). He writes regularly for the Greek and Greek American media.

Interviews

Interview with ENA: Institute of Alternative Policies [in Greek]

Interview with the Greek News Agenda [in English]

Interview in the National Herald [in Greek] 

Editor: Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters https://ergon.scienzine.com/

Books and Chapters in Books

Books

Χαρτογραφήσεις της Λευκής Εθνοτικότητας: Λαϊκή Εθνογραφία και Δημιουργία Χρηστικών Παρελθόντων στον Ελληνοαμερικανικό Κόσμο (Νήσος, 2021)

Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos F. Kalogeras, and Theodora Patrona eds. 2022. Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation. Fordham University Press. [Awarded the Modern Greek Studies Association Vassiliki Karagiannaki Best Edited Book Prize, 2022]

Book Chapters

“Recontextualizing the Bicentenary in Greek America and Beyond: Greek Civic Identities in the Diaspora.” In The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States, edited by Maria Kaliambou, 86–102. New York: Routledge. 2023.

«Επαναπροσδιορίζοντας τη 20ή επέτειο της Επανάστασης στην Ελληνική Αμερική και την Ελληνική Αυστραλία: ταυτότητες Ελλήνων πολιτών στη διασπορά». Στο Η επανάσταση του 1821 και οι Έλληνες της Αμερικής. Επιμέλεια Μαρία Καλιαμπού, 177–204. Μετάφραση Γιώργος Αποσκίτης. Αθήνα: Ασίνη. 2023.

“Immigraντ Poetics: Play as Performativity of the Liminal Self.” In Ludics: Play as Humanistic Inquiry, Vassiliki Rapti and Eric Gordon, eds., pp. 339–58. Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. 

“Poetry Traversing History: Narrating Louis Tikas in David Mason’s Ludlow.” In Retelling the Past in Contemporarty Greek Literature, Film and Popular Culture. Gerasimus Katsan and Trine Willert eds., 49–66. 2019, Lexington Press.

"Citizenship and Entrepreneurship: Greek America as Diaspora at a Time of Crisis.” In Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity, edited by Dimitris Tziovas, 107–132. I. B. Tairus Publishers. 2017.

“Diaspora Public Diplomacy at a Time of Homeland Crisis: The Philotimo Nation as Global Distinction.” In Diaspora Engagement in Times of Severe Economic Crisis: Greece and Beyond., Othon Anastasakis, Manolis Pratsinakis, Foteini Kalantzi, Antonis Kamaras, eds., pp. 245–65. Springer, 2022.

Recent Articles

“'Greek Melbourne' Calling! New Cartographies of Diasporic Belonging." Ergon: Greek American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, September 3, 2024. [Open access, https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/blog/greek-melbourne]

"The Politics of Life and Death: Working-Class Greek Immigrant Women and the Castle Gate Mine Disaster—A Tribute." Ergon: Greek American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, May 18, 2024. [Open access, https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/articles/the-politics-of-life-and-death]

"The Castle Gate Mine Disaster Centenary: A Tribute." Ergon: Greek American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, March 1, 2024.

“Classics and Modern Greek Studies: Continuing the Conversation in the Language of Cultural Studies.” Journal of Modern Hellenism 35: 28–46. 2023.

“Her Heritage Made Sense”—Diasporic Success! Women Transmitting and Queering Foodways in Annie Liontas’s Let Me Explain You.” Ergon: Greek/American & Diaspora Arts and Letters, March 8, 2023.

“Private and Public Partnerships: The Greek Diaspora’s Branding of Philotimo as Identity,” Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 7:1 (3–25), 2021. 

«Όρια, Μεθόριος, Διασπορά: Διαβάζοντας Διαβάσεις και Θεωρία» [“Boundaries, Borders, Diaspora: Reading Crossings and Theory”]. 2019 [Marginalia]: Σημειώσεις στο Περιθώριο. Τεύχος 9, Σεπτέμβριος 26. https://marginalia.gr/arthro/oria-methorios-diaspora-diavazontas-diavaseis-kai-theoria/

“Spectacular Incorporations: American Sports, Ethnic Heritage Night, Greek America.” April 22, 2019. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays/spectacular-incorporations

“Migrant Life Stories: Little and Grand Narratives.” A Journal for Greek Letters (Modern Greek Studies Australia & New Zealand), 20 (16–42), 2021.  

“Voice and Voicing in Blessings and Vows: ‘Finding’ and Funding Heritage in the Greek Transnational Village.” Erγon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, 31 December, 2021. https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/essays/finding-and-funding-heritage