Director of Undergraduate Studies; Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature
stroebel@umich.eduOffice Information:
Tisch Hall 2029E
hours: Tuesday 11-12; Wednesday 2.30-3.30
Southeastern Europe; Department Administration; Translation Studies; Comparative Literature; Migration and Diaspora; Classical Reception Studies; Middle East and North Africa; Mediterranean; History of the Book; Transnational and Global Cultures
Education/Degree:
PhD, University of Michigan (2017)MA, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (2008)
BA, Grinnell College (2004)
Highlighted Work and Publications
Literature’s Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape
William Stroebel
In 1923, the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange uprooted and swapped nearly two million Christians and Muslims, “pacifying” the so-called Near East through ethnic partition and refugeehood. This imposition of borders not only uprooted peoples from their place in the world; it also displaced many of their stories from a place in world literature. In Literature’s Refuge, William Stroebel recovers and weaves together work by fugitive writers, oral storytellers, readers, copyists, editors, and translators dispersed by this massive “unmixing” of populations and the broader border logic...
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