Gonda A. H. Van Steen (she/her) holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at King’s College London. She also directs the King’s Centre for Hellenic Studies. She received her Ph.D. degree in Classics and Hellenic Studies from Princeton University. Van Steen is the author of five books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece; Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire; Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands; and Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967-1974. Her latest, single-authored book, Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (2019), takes the reader into the uncharted terrain of Greek adoption stories that become paradigmatic of Cold War politics and history (translated in Greek, Athens: Potamos, 2021). Van Steen most recently published an edited volume titled The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946-1951 (Routledge, 2024). She is currently completing various articles, chapters and reports that take a more activist stance on postwar international adoption. Van Steen also authored, introduced, and co-produced a testimony theater play called For Three Refrigerators and a Washing Machine (forthcoming with Anthem Press, 2025). She further takes a keen interest in transnational collaborations and study abroad programs.