Adam Goldwyn is Professor of English at North Dakota State University. He received his BA in ancient and medieval Mediterranean history from Pomona College, an MA in ancient history from University College London, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. His areas of interest are Medieval Studies, Hellenic Studies (ancient, medieval, and modern), comparative philology, Classical reception (particularly of the Trojan War), critical theory, and Jewish Studies. 

Dr. Goldwyn has taught at a variety of institutions in the US (NDSU, Brooklyn College, City College of New York, New York University) and Europe (American University of Kosovo, University of New York Tirana, Uppsala University, the University of Silesia, and College Year in Athens).

His research has been supported by various institutions, including research fellowships at Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University’s Center for Byzantine Studies in Washington DC), The Humboldt Foundation, the Swedish Research Institute in Athens, and grant support from the Riskbanken Jubeliemsfond, the Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, and others. 

Dr. Goldwyn has given lectures at, most recently, Stanford University, Cambridge University, the University of Virginia, the University of Missouri, Uppsala University, the University of the Aegean, the University of Mainz, and the University of Tübingen.

Recent Courses at NDSU

Undergraduate:

English 220: Introduction to Literature

English 240: World Literature Masterpieces

English 251: British Literature I

English 271: Literary Analysis

English 336: Literature and the Environment

English 480: Medieval Literature

Graduate Courses at NDSU

English 680: Medieval Literature

English 760: Graduate Scholarship

English 762: Critical Theory

Selected Publications

Books

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) 

Recent Articles:

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).

For a complete list of publications, see https://sites.google.com/view/adamgoldwyn/