Gail Holst-Warhaft

Gail Holst-Warhaft is an adjunct professor in the Departments of Comparative Literature and Biological and Environmental Engineering and a member of the Graduate Field of Music at Cornell University where she is also director of the Mediterranean Studies Initiative in the Institute for European Studies. Her areas of interest are modern Greek literature and music, Greek literature from antiquity to the present, translation, water and culture. She lived for a number of years in Greece, where she played with with the composers Mikis Theodorakis and Dionysis Savvopoulos, before going to the States. She is also a poet and was appointed Poet Laureate of Tompkins County for 2011 and 2012. Her books include Penelope’s Confession [poems] (Attica Editions, 2007), The Cue for Passion: Grief and its Political Uses (Harvard University Press, 2000), Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature (Routledge, 1992), Theodorakis: Myth and Politics in Modern Greek Music (Hakkert, 1980), Road to Rembetika (1975) and she is co-editor of Losing Paradise: The Water Crisis in the Mediterranean (Ashgate, 2010) and The Classical Moment (Rowman & Littlefield, 1999). Her new collection of prose and poetry is forthcoming with Fomite Press.