nikolaos panou

Assistant Professor of English and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed Professor in Hellenic Studies. 
Ph.D. Harvard University
Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek literatures and cultures; Comparative Literature;
Reception Studies; Mediterranean Studies; Film Studies.
Humanities 1100
nikolaos.panou@stonybrook.edu 

• Biography

  Nikolaos Panou is Assistant Professor of English and Peter V. Tsantes Endowed
  Professor in Hellenic Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from
  Harvard University and has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Seeger Center for Hellenic
  Studies and the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts, Princeton University. Before
  coming to Stony Brook he was Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at
  Brown University.
  He has written on topics ranging from Byzantine historiography to seventeenth-century
  satire and has also co-edited a collective volume entitled Evil Lords: Theories and
  Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Oxford University Press).
  Among other things, he is currently working on a book manuscript, which examines the
  ways sovereignty was represented and theorized in didactic discourse, such
  as hagiographies, chronicles, advice treatises, and moral disquisitions, produced in
  Southeastern Europe from the early sixteenth to the early eighteenth century. The book
  offers a systematic discussion of the discursive mechanisms through which Byzantine
  imperial ideology was reclaimed as a prerequisite for the representation and
  legitimization of monarchical power in the Ottoman East, and also recovers the influence
  of little-known works on the intellectual evolution of the early modern Balkans by
  indicating their role in a gradual reconfiguration of key ethico-political concepts that
  eventually facilitated the integration of Enlightenment tensions in the region at a critical
  point in its history.