Dr. Maria Hnaraki

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			Maria Hnaraki, Ph.D.
			Assistant Teaching Professor of Greek
			Director of Greek Studies
			Office:	MacAlister 20-23A
			Phone:	(215) 895-6143
			Email:	mh439 @ drexel.edu
	CURRENT AREAS OF RESEARCH Ethnomusicology Cultural anthropology & performance of the Mediterranean Greek music and dance Cretan folk poetry Taxonomy and digitization of music archives Kazantzakis and music Folklore aspects of the Greek language
	RESEARCH PROJECTS Teaching English through Greek Preservation of Cretan archives Creative approaches in music and language education
	SELECTED PUBLICATIONS “Bridging Kazantzakis’s The Sacrifice and Kalomiris’s The Masterbuilder”2008. In Manolis Kalomiris: The Masterbuilder. Greek National Opera. Cretan Music: Unfolding Ariadne's Thread 2007. Athens: Kerkyra Publications. “Greece”. 2006. The Ethnomusicologist's Cookbook. New York: Routledge Press, pp. 240-245. “Greece”. 2006. The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Folklore and Folklife. London: Greenwood Press, pp. 493-501. “Speaking Without Words: Cretan Dance at Weddings as Expression, Dialogue and Communication”. 2006. Folklor Edebiyat 45 (1): 93-106 “Is King Zeus Alive? Dance Mythomusicologies in the Mountainous Crete.” 2004. Arxaiologia 92: 68-75
	COURSE USUALLY TAUGHT: Grec 101, 102, 103:Introduction to Modern Greek Grec 212: Greek Folklore Grec 225: Greek Music; Dance Anth 212:Anthropology of the Mediterranean Engl 325:Greek Literature; Poetry Drexel in Crete Summer Program