University of Peloponnese

Faculty Member, Department of Theatre Studies

Lecturer in Modern European Literature and Theory

About

  I hold a BA in English and Greek Literature from the University of Athens; a MA in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex; and a PhD in literature also from Sussex University.

  I am currently Lecturer in Modern European Literature and Theory in the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese, Greece.

  I have previously taught at Athens University (English Studies Department). Since 2001, I have also been teaching  at the Hellenic Open University the course “History of European Literature” for which I have co-authored one of the assigned textbooks (History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century, Patras: The Hellenic Open University, 2008).

    My most recent book, entitled, Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan (London and New York) in 2010.
http://us.macmillan.com/virginiawoolfmodernityandhistory


  I have also edited  4 collective volumes:
  Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity (Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2007);
  Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts (co-editor, Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002);
  Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Orientations and Crossings (co-editor, Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2002); and
  Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives (Athens:Centre for Research and Documentation, 1994).

  I have been a Member of the Judging Panel of the European Translation Centre (EKEMEL) for the English to Greek annual Translation Prize since 2008.

  I also publish articles and book-reviews in the Greek press (since 2003).

  My research interests are: Modern and Contemporary European Literature, especially English; Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin; Theory and History of Literature and Drama; Critical and Cultural Theory; Gender studies; history/historiography; Modernism and Modernity.

  At the moment, I am co-editing a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies on 'Gender Resistance'. And I am also working toward  expanding my project of reading  major modernists in relation to modernity/history and researching the question of the subject in modern literature.

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