Adam Goldwyn - Publications

Monographs

Zero Generation Holocaust Literature: The Art of Non-Survival (Palgrave Macmillan: 2025)

Homer, Humanism, Holocaust: Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Enlightenment During World War II (Palgrave Macmillan: 2022)

Witness Literature in Byzantium: Narrating Slaves, Prisoners, and Refugees (Palgrave Macmillan: 2021)

Byzantine Ecocriticism: Women, Nature, and Power in the Medieval Greek Romance (Palgrave Macmillan: 2018)

Rae Dalven: The Life of a Greek Jewish American (Isnafi: 2022)

Edited Volumes

The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World (Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis: 2015)

Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development (Palgrave Macmillan: 2016)

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde (Brill 2017)

Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook (Cambridge UP: 2019)

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Classics in the Early Americas (Brill 2021)

Translations

Two Anonymous Byzantine Romances About the Trojan War (Routledge: 2025)

Tzetzes, John. Allegories of the Iliad (Harvard UP: 2015)

Allegories of the Odyssey (Harvard UP: 2019)

Critical Editions

Dalven, Rae. Marriages Are Arranged in Heaven (Isnafi: 2022)

Dalven, Rae. A Matter or Survival (Isnafi: 2024)

Interviews

World Literature Today 86.3 (2012): 28-32

World Literature Today 90.1 (2016): 22-25

World Literature Today 92.1 (2018): 22-27

World Literature Today 94.3 (2020): 48-52

World Literature Today 97.1 (2022): 41-43.

World Literature Today 99.1 (2025) 22-25.

Recorded Talks and Interviews

“Some Byzantine Trees: An Ecocritical Approach to Medieval Greek Nature Writing.” Nature and the Environment in Byzantium: The 53rd Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. Birmingham. UK, March 28-30, 2021.

"Representing the Trauma of Captivity, Enslavement, and Degradation." Byzantium and Friends Podcast with Anthony Kaldellis. Ep. 60, Dec. 9, 2020.

Performing the Medieval Greek Romance from Digenis Akritis to the Erotokritos.” Ariosto and the Arabs: Villa i Tatti (Florence, Italy), October 18-19, 2017.

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Peer-Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters

2025 “Recovery Studies and Pop Musicology: The Twelve Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as Lyrical, Visual, and Sonic Rhetoric” in Handbook of Popular Music Methodologies. Eds. Mike Dines, Fiorenzo Palermo, Shara Rambarran. Intellect Books, 516-29.

2025 “Haunted Presents and the Future of Byzantine Historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as Witness Literature.” BMGS 50, 1-9.

2025 “The Sexual Politics of Myth: Rewriting and Unwriting Women in Byzantine Accounts of the Trojan War” in Enchanted Receptions: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives. Eds. Scheijnen, Tine and Ellen Söderblom Saarela. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, 139-62.

2024: "Haunted pasts and the future of Byzantine historiography: George Sphrantzes’ Chronicon Minus as witness literature." Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 50.1: 1-9.

2022 “The Rhetoric of Recovery in Social Distortion’s White Light, White Heat White Trash.” Punk & Post-Punk 11.2.

2022 “Byzantine Spacetime: A Rough Guide for Future Tourists to the Past” in Spatialities of Byzantine Culture from the Human Body to the Universe. Eds. Veikou, Myrto and Ingela Nilsson. Brill, 657-67 (co-authored with Derek Krueger).

2022 “Gardens Without Gardeners: (Un)narrating Labor in the Medieval Greek Romance.” Dibur 10, 7-18.

2022 “Byzantium in the American Alt-Right Imagination: Paradigms of the Medieval Greek Past among Men’s Rights Activists and White Supremacists” in Handbook of Identity in Byzantium. Eds. Parnell, David, Michael Edward Stewart, and Conor Whately. Routledge, 424-39.

2022 “John Malalas’ Chronicle as Collage: Generic Variation, Allegorical Interpretation, and the Polyphony of History” in Johannes Malalas: Der Chronist als Zeithistoriker. Ed. Mischa Meier and Gengler, Olivier. Franz Steiner Verlag, 57-75.

2021 “Performing the Medieval Greek Romance from Digenis Akritis to the Erotokritos” in Ariosto and the Arabs: Contexts for the Orlando Furioso. Eds. Casari, Mario, Preti, Monica, and Wyatt, Michael. Officina Libraria, 403-426. (co-authored with Przemysław Marciniak).

2021 “A New England Underworld: The Necropolitics and Necropoetics of Katabasis in The Hartford Wits’ Mock-Epic The Anarchiad

(1786-87)” in Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas. Eds. Duquès, Matthew, Feile-Tomes, Maya, and Goldwyn, Adam. Brill, 271-294.

2019 “Greek Jews on the American Stage: Gender, Nationalism, and Assimilation in Rae Dalven’s Unpublished Autobiographical Plays.” Scandinavian Journal of Modern Greek Studies 5, 137-175.

2019 “Romancing Troy: Homeric Motifs in Palaiologan Romances” in Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook. Eds. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Nilsson, Ingela. Cambridge University Press, 188-210. (co-authored with Ingela Nilsson).

2019 “Narrating the Vernacular: An Introduction to the Palaiologan Romance” in Reading the Late Byzantine Romance: A Handbook. Eds. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Nilsson, Ingela. Cambridge University Press, 1-18. (co-authored with Ingela Nilsson).

2018 “Trojan Pasts, Medieval Presents: Epic Continuation in Eleventh to Thirteenth Century Genealogical Histories” in Brill’s Companion to Prequels, Sequels, and Retellings of Classical Epic. Ed. Simms, Robert. Brill, 154-174.

2018 “Theory and Method in John Tzetzes’ Allegories of the Iliad and Allegories of the Odyssey.” Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and

Modern Greek Studies 3, 141-171.

2017 “Introduction: Modernist Studies at the Crossroads of Classical Reception, Seferis Reads Eliot and Cavafy” in Brill’s Companion to Classical Receptions in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde. Ed. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Nikopoulos, James. Brill, 1-18.

(co-authored with James Nikopoulos).

2017 “Creating the Modern Rhapsode: The Classics as World Literature in Ezra Pound’s Cantos” in Brill’s Companion to Classical Receptions in International Modernism and the Avant-Garde. Ed. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Nikopoulos, James. Brill, 53-72.

2016 “‘The Virtue of Hellenism’: Yoram Bronowski’s Hebrew Translations of Constantine Cavafy and Israel’s Mediterranean Identity.” Journal of Mediterranean Studies 26.2, 136-151.

2016 “Fernand Braudel and the Invention of a Modernist’s Mediterranean” in Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and

Aesthetic Development. Eds. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Silverman, Renée. Palgrave-MacMillan, 1-26. (Co-authored with Renée Silverman).

2016 “Modernism, Nationalism, Albanianism: Geographic Poetry and Poetic Geography in the Albanian and Kosovar Independence

Movements” in Mediterranean Modernism: Intercultural Exchange and Aesthetic Development. Eds. Goldwyn, Adam J. and Silverman, Renee. Palgrave-MacMillan, 251-281.

2016 “The Trojan War from Rome to New Rome: The Reception of Dictys of Crete’s Ephemeris Belli Troiani in Ioannes Malalas’ Chronicle” in Miscellanea Byzantina I. Ed. Marciniak, Przemyslaw. University of Silesia Press, 9-34.

2016 “A Case-Study in Byzantine Ecocriticism: Zoomorphic and Anthomorphic Metaphors in the Medieval Greek Romance.” ISLE:

Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment 23.2, 220-239.

2016 “‘Go Back to Homer’s Verse’: Iliads of revolution and Odysseys of exile in Albanian Poetry.” Classical Receptions Journal 8.4,

2016 “‘Constantinople Our Star’: The Image of Byzantium in Modernist Poetry” in The Reception of Byzantium in European Culture since 1500. Eds. Marcianak, Przemyslaw and Smythe, Dion. Ashgate, 225-243.

2015 “John Malalas and the Origins of the Allegorical and Novelistic Traditions of the Trojan War in Byzantium.” Troianalexandrina 15, 23-49.

2015 “Joseph Eliyia and the Jewish Question in Greece: Zionism, Hellenism and the Struggle for Modernity.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 33.2, 361-384.

2015 “Towards a Byzantine Ecocriticism: Witches and Nature Control in the Medieval Greek Romance.” Byzantine and Modern Greek

Studies 39.1, 66-84.

2015 “‘That Men to Come Shall Know of It’: Theorizing Aesthetic Innovation, Heroic Ideology, and Political Legitimacy in Trojan War Reception” in The Trojan Wars and the Making of the Modern World. Ed. Goldwyn, Adam J. Studia Graeca Upsalensia, 1-15.

2015 “Achaians, Athenians and Americans: Comparing Empires in The New York Times in the Post-9/11 Era” in The Trojan Wars and the

Making of the Modern World. Ed. Goldwyn, Adam J. Studia Graeca Upsaliensia, 245-258.

2014 “‘I come from a cursed land and from the depths of darkness’: Life after death in Greek laments about the fall of Constantinople” in Wanted Byzantium: The Desire for a Lost Empire. Eds. Nilsson, Ingela and Stephenson, Paul. Studia Byzantina Upsaliensia, 93-108.

2012 “Translations and Adaptations of C.P. Cavafy in Albanian.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 30.2, 247-276.

2012 “Interfaith Marriage in Medieval Romance.” Diesis 2.1, 66-79.

2012 “Arthur in the East: Cross-Cultural Translations of Arthurian Romance in Greek and

Hebrew, with a New Translation of Ὁ Πρεσβύς Ἱπποτές/The Old Knight.” LATCH: The Journal of Literary Artifacts in Theory, Culture and History 5, 75-105.

2011 “Exile and Nostalgia in Albanian Lyric Poetry since 1750.” Mediterranean Journal of Humanities 1, 123-141.

adam.goldwyn@ndsu.edu

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