William Stroebel

William Stroebel is an Assistant Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science and the Arts. His work bridges refugee literatures, border studies, and textual materiality.

• PhD, University of Michigan (2017)
• MA, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (2008)
• BA, Grinnell College (2004)

His research focuses on Modern Greek and Turkish literatures, Book History, Mediterranean Studies, and Classical Reception. He explores marginalized textual practices—such as Arabic-script Greek and Karamanli Turkish—across forced displacement events like the 1923-1925 Greco-Turkish Population Exchange. His forthcoming monograph, Literature’s Refuge: Rewriting the Mediterranean Borderscape (Princeton UP, 2025), analyzes how diasporic and refugee literatures challenge civilizational borders between Europe and the Middle East.

Stroebel’s recent peer-reviewed articles examine refugee memory, Karamanli textual marginalia, and hybrid literary forms. His interdisciplinary approach integrates materialism, trauma theory, and Mediterranean connectivity frameworks.

He actively advises graduate students in Greek/Turkish literatures, border-crossing narratives, and textual criticism. Contact: stroebel@umich.edu | Modern Greek Office: 2160 Angell Hall, University of Michigan.