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With great sorrow, we report the death on December 8, 2017, of Professor Marios Byron Raizis, a pillar of Byron studies internationally and in Greece and a founding advisor and continuing supporter of both the Messolonghi Byron Society and the Messolonghi Byron Research Center. Professor Raizis, who held graduate degrees from Purdue University and New York University, taught for many years at Southern Illinois State University before joining the English faculty of Athens University in 1978. Well known as a scholar publishing on Romantic literature, especially Lord Byron, Professor Raizis was also a Greek-to-English and English-to-Greek translator of Solomos, Seferis, and other poets.

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The International Association of Byron Societies (IABS) is very saddened to learn of the passing of Professor Emirates Marios Byron Raizis.

A graduate of Purdue University (M.Sc.) and of New York University (Ph.D.), Professor Marios-Byron Raizis joined the Faculty of English Studies at the University of Athens in 1978 and attained the status of Full Professor of English Literature and the ex-officio Head of the Faculty. His research and publications focused primarily on the area of English Metaphysical and Romantic poetry, as well as in comparative literary studies of Greek and English letters; he has also studied and translated modern Greek poetry into English. A distinguished Byron scholar, M. B. Raizis was President of the Hellenic Byron Society since 1988. And during the last decade he was completely devoted to The Messolonghi Byron Society, as Director of Studies.

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13th International Student Byron Conference21-26 May 2018Theme: “Byron and Fiction” The Messolonghi Byron Research Center welcomes proposals for 20-minute papers to be delivered at the 13th…