Faculty

Susan Matthias 
BA, MA, MA, PHD
Adjunct Instructor

Department Affiliation

• Humanities and Performing Arts

Courses

• Lover or Fighter? Reading Virgil's <i>Aeneid</i> / LITR1-CE9951
  
• Love, War, Peaceful Ending: Reading Homer's <i>Iliad</i> / X02.9631
  
• The Greatest Journey of Them All: Reading Homer's <i>Odyssey</i> / LITR1-CE9310
  
• Love, War, Peaceful Ending: Reading Homer's <i>Iliad</i> / LITR1-CE9631
  
• Loves, Lives, and Legends: The Trojan War and Its Literary Legacy / X02.9643
  

Educational Record

• Vassar College, BA, 1969, English
• Boston University, MA, 1971, English
• New York University, MA, 2000, Comparative Literature
• New York University, PHD, 2006, Comparative Literature

Teaching Record

• New York University, Morse Academic Plan, CAS
  Preceptor, Adjunct Instructor 1999 - 2007
• New York University, Comparative Literature, CAS
  Adjunct Instructor 2004 - 2012
• New York University, SCPS
  Adjunct Instructor 2007 - 2012
• New York University, SCPS McGhee Division
  Adjunct Instructor 2008 - 2009

Professional Record

• Vice President, Burson-Marsteller, 1980 - 1993

Honors & Awards

• Elizabeth Constantinides Translation Prize
  Modern Greek Studies Association, 2006
• NYU-SCPS Teaching Excellence Award
  NYU School of Continuing and Professional Studies, 2012

Publications

• "The Lissome Maiden," Chapter 3, by Andreas Karkavitsas, translated and introduced by Susan Matthias, Metamorphoses Fall 2009, Vol 17, Issue 2, 2009
• "Introduction to T.S. Eliot by George Seferis," translated and introduced by Susan Matthias, Modernism/Modernity, Vol. 16, Num. 1 , 2008
• Six Nights on the Acropolis, A Novel by George Seferis, translated from Modern Greek and introduced by Susan Matthias, Cosmos Publishing, Modern Greek Literature Library, 2007
• "Prologue to Kazantzakis's Zorba the Greek" translated and introduced by Susan Matthias, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 16, Num. 1, 1998