SHORT BIO Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou Associate Professor in Modern European Literature and Theory The University of the Peloponnese, Greece; Research Fellow School of Advanced Study, University of London Research interests: Modern and Contemporary European Literature; Comparative Literature; Critical and Cultural Theory ( including Theatre and Literary Theory); Gender studies; History/ historiography; Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin; Modernism and Modernity; Literature, Theatre and the Arts. Courses taught: European Literary Movements (18th-20th C) Modern and Contemporary Drama (from the Absurd to the Postmodern) Interpreting Texts: Modern Theories of Literature and Drama Theatre and Literature: The Practice of Theatre Adaptation Modernism, Modernity and the Avant-guard Theatre Theory (2010-2014) Literary Theory: Methods of Textual Analysis (2007-2009) Contact Address: The University of the Peloponnese, Theatre Studies Dept., 21 Vasileos Konstantinou str., Nafplio 21100, Greece Telephone: 0030-27520-96126 e-mail: aspirop@uop.gr; angeliki.spiropoulou@sas.ac.uk Brief Résumé Angeliki Spiropoulou is currently Assistant Professor in Modern European Literature and Theory at the Theatre Studies Department of the University of the Peloponnese and a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study- University of London, where she convenes the Research Seminar Series on 'Comparative Modernisms' (http://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/research-seminars/comparative-modernismsseminar).
She holds a BA in English and Greek Literature from the University of Athens; a Master of Arts in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex; and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature also from the University of Sussex, UK. She has also taught at the Hellenic Open University the MA course on 'Literary Theory and Creative Writing', and the BA course 'History of European Literature' for which she co-authored the assigned textbook. I previously taught English literature and Cultural Theory at the English Department of Athens University; and 'Theatre Theory' on the MA Programme in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus. As visiting professor she has also taught at: Goldsmiths College-University of London; the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona; the Accademia di Belli Arte di Venezia; the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU); and Bogazici University -Instabul. Additionally, she has delivered invited lectures and graduate research seminars at the Paris College of Art; Université Paris VII- Denis Diderot, Sapienza Univerity of Rome; Goldsmiths College-University of London; and School of Advanced Study-London. In 2013-14, she was a visiting researcher at Université Paris III- Nouvelle Sorbonne, and between 2011-15, she was main researcher in the EU-funded interdisciplinary research programme- THALIS on the theme of cultural transfer and the formation of national character. Dr Spiropoulou has published in Greek and international refereed journals and conference proceedings. Her monograph, entitled, Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan (London and New York) in 2010. She have co-authored the Open University textbook, 'History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century' (Patras: Hellenic Open University, 2008), and have edited or co-edited 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). She has also co-edited have also co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies (Routledge) on the topic of 'Gender Resistance' (2012); the inaugural issue of the journal Theatre Polis on 'Contemporary theatre practices and approaches'; and a special issue on 'History and Contemporary Literature' for the journal 'Synthesis', which includes my interview with philosopher of history, Hayden White. She has recently contributed to the volumes, '1922: History, Culture, Politics' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015); and Sentencing Orlando (Edinburgh University Press; forthcoming ); as well as the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism and the Sage Encyclopedia of Theory (forthcoming). She has organised and participated in many international conferences and events in Greece and abroad as well as in several professional associations/academic networks. She is elected Member of the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies for two consecutive terms, 2013-15 and 2015-17. Dr Spiropoulou also publishes book reviews in the Greek press and is also a standing Member of the Judging Panel of the English to Greek annual Translation Prize of the European Translation Centre in Athens since 2008, and a contributor of articles and book-reviews in the Greek daily and Sunday press since 2003.
In 2016, she was appointed Regional Managing Editor for Greece for TheTheatreTimes.com She continues to work and expand on her project of reading major modernists in the historical, cultural and philosophical contexts of modernity, and is also looking into inter-medial relations among theatre, literature and the arts. She now is working on a monograph on modernist authors and historiography and co-editing a volume on 'Historical Modernisms' with Professor Jean-Michel Rabaté. Dr Spiropoulou is a member of the Erasmus Academic Committee and the Student Work Placement Programme Committee of the Theatre Studies Department and a member of the institutional Committee of Quality Assessment and Accreditation of the University of the Peloponnese. Selected Publications: BOOKS 1. Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin, London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010. http://us.macmillan.com/virginiawoolfmodernityandhistory 2. History of European Literature: From 18 th to 20 th Century (co-author), Patras: The Hellenic Open University, 2008. 3. Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity (editor) Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2007. 4. Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts (co-editor), Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002. 5. Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Orientations and Crossings (coeditor), Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2002. 6. Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives (editor), Athens: Centre for Research and Documentation, 1994. PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1. History and Contemporary Literature, econtemporary Literature. Co-editor of issue no 8 of the peer-reviewed e-journal Synthesis, published by the English Department of Athens University, 2015. 2. Contemporary Theatre Theories and Practices, co-edited and Introduced with Barbara Georgopoulou, Theatre Polis: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Theatre and the Arts, no 1, 2014. http://ts.uop.gr 3. Co-editor with E.Sifaki of special issue, entitled Gender Resistance of European Journal of English Studies (Routledge Publ.), 16.3, 2012.
SELECTED ARTICLES and BOOK CHAPTERS 1. In or around 1922 : Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Bloomsbury, in 1922: History, Culture, Politics, ed. Jean-Michel Rabaté, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 2. "On Not Knowing English; Woolfian Encounters with the Other", Études britanniques contemporaines, no 48, June 2015. 3. Benjamin, Walter and Shklovsky, Victor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Ed. Stephen Ross. London: Routledge, 2016. 4. Orlando Famoso: Τhe Dialectics of Obscurity, Fame and Tradition, Sentencing Orlando, eds. Amy Bromley and Elsa Holdberg, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, in press. 5. Modernism, Sage Encyclopedia of Theory. London: Sage Publ, in press. 6. Modernism and History, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Eds Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, in press. 7. Semiotics/Semiology, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Eds Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Olga Taxidou. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, in press. 8. Topoi of Modernity in Benjamin and T.S. Eliot, in Landscapes of Poetics, eds. E.Garandoudis and U. Polykandrioti, Athens: Gutenberg Publ, in press. 9. Introduction: History and Contemporary Literature (with Christine Harrison), Synthesis, no 8, 2015. 10. Introduction: Contemporary theatre theories and practices (with V.Georgopoulou) Theatre Polis, no 1, 2015. 11. Woolf s Contemporaneity, in A Contemporary Woolf, eds Claire Davison- Pegon and Anne-Marie Smith-Di Biasio, Collection Present Perfect, Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2014. 12. Gender Resistance: Contemporary Practices and Approaches (with E.Sifaki), European Journal of English Studies (Routledge Publ.), 16.3, 2012. 13. Τhe modern artwork and the spatialisation of time: painting in the novel, Relational Forms, ed. Rui Carvahlo Homem, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012. 14. Woolf s Contradictory Thinking, in Contradictory Woolf: Selected Papers from the Twenty-First Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf, eds. Derek Rayan & Stella Bolaki, South Carolina: Clemson University Press, 2012. 15. Textual Memory: At the Intersection of History and Aesthetics, in Writings of Memory, ed. Z.Siaflekis, Athens: Gutenberg Publ. (Hellenic Association for Comparative Literature), 2011. 16. Aesthetic Anaesthetic? Art as Anaesthetic in fin-de-siècle Aestheticism, Σύγκριση/Comparison/Comparaison 21, 2011. 17. Virginia Woolf on Nature, History and the Modern Artwork, Virginia Woolf Miscellany 78, Fall-Winter 2010. 18. The Cult of the New and the Work of Critique, The International Journal of the Arts in Society 4.5, 2010. 19. Remembrance of Times Past: From Proust s Similarities to Benjamin s Constellations through Baudelaire s Correspondences, Axiologika 22, 2010. 20. The Problematics of the End of Literature and its Beckettian Enunciation, Σύγκριση/Comparison/Comparaison 19, 2008. 21. Brecht, Kafka, Benjamin: The mimetics of gesture, the intervention of history, in Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity, ed. Angeliki Spiropoulou, Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2007.
22. Introduction: The Mythical Modernity of Walter Benjamin, in Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity, ed. Angeliki Spiropoulou, Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2007. 23. Modernity, Philosophy of History and Art in the late Work of Walter Benjamin, Synchrona Themata 96, Jan-Mar 2007. 24. The End of Telelology: the Discourse on the End of Literature, ΚΑPPΑ: A Journal of Literature and Criticism 8, July 2005. 25. Postscript: Virginia Woolf, Poetry and Poetic Fiction, Poesis 25, Spring- Summer 2005. 26. Allegories of Symbiosis, Testimonies of Survival: Yann Martel s The Life of Pi, Diavazo 450, Αpril 2004. 27. Outside Culture: Virginia Woolf and a Politics of/for Outsiders, in The Periphery Viewing the World, eds. E.Mitsi, Ch.Dokou, B.Mitsikopoulou, Athens:Parousia-Athens UP, 2004. 28. Introduction: Topoi and Tropes of Cultural Encounter (with Th. Tsimpouki), in Contemporary Greek Literature: International Orientations and Crossings, eds. Α. Spiropoulou & Th. Tsimpouki, Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2002. 29. On Not Knowing Greek : Virginia Woolf s Spatial Critique of Authority, Interdisciplinary Literary Studies: A Journal of Criticism and Theory 4.1, Fall 2002. 30. Modernity/ism, Gender and Consumer Culture: Gatsby s Masculinity and The Theory of the Leisure Class, in Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts, eds. Th. Tsimpouki & A.Spiropoulou, Bern, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002. 31. Modifying the Female Body: Women s Bodies and Contemporary Fitness Culture, GRAMMA/ΓΡΑΜΜΑ: A Journal of Theory and Criticism 9, (Aristotle University), 2001. 32. The Marginalisation of Literature in Cultural Studies, in Teaching Culture: The Long Revolution in Cultural Studies, eds. Martin Ryle και Nannette Aldred, London: NIACE, 1999. 33. Fashion and Postmodern Identities, in Nationalism and Sexuality: Crises of Identity, eds. D. Pastourmatzi & Y. Kalogeras, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University and Hellenic Association for American Studies Publication, 1996. 34. Representations of Femininity: A Short Introduction to Approaches and Problems, in Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives, ed. A. Spiropoulou, Athens: Center for Research and Documentation, 1994. 35. Oedipus Rex: How Many Readings?, Diavazo 234, July 1990. 36. Structuralism and Literature, Diavazo 227, Νovember 1989. 37. What is Structuralism?, Diavazo 227, Νovember 1989.