120 Boylston St
Boston, MA 02116
Areas of Specialization
Literary Theory (postcolonial, transnational culture studies)
English Literature (eighteenth to contemporary, including literatures written in English)
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Travel Literature
Performing Cultures: East/West
Information last updated October 15, 2008.
Maria Koundoura
Associate Professor
Dept. of Writing, Literature, Publishing
Emerson College
Degrees
Ph. D. 1993 Stanford University
M. A. 1986 Univ. of Melbourne
B. A. 1984 Univ. of Melbourne
Principal Publications
Book:
The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities (London: Tauris, 2007; New York: Palgrave/MacMillan, 2007)
Editions:
Nation and Culture: Reworking the Boundaries of Territoriality, Special Issue, Stanford Humanities Review, February 1993
Greek-Australian Literature, Special Issue, Epaphe, Univ. of Melbourne, 1986
Articles (selected):
“Rethinking Rights: Spivak, Kant, and the Vision of Cultures ‘to Come’” in Purushottama Bilimoria ed, Postcolonial Critique of Reason, (Oxford, forthcoming)
“Real Selves and Fictional Nobodies: Women’s Travel Writing and the Production of Identities” in Vassiliki Colocotroni and Efterpi Mitsi, eds, Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel (Rodopi, 2008)
“Beware of (Phil)Hellenes Bringing Gifts: Byron and Greece” in Tatiana Rapatzikou, ed., Anglo-American Philhellenisms (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007).
“Between Orientalism and Philhellenism: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s ‘Real’ Greeks,” The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation 45:3 (2004), 249-264.
“Finding One’s Way Home: ‘I Dream of Jeannie’ and Diasporic Identity” in Henry Jenkins, Tara MacPherson and Jane Shattuc, eds. Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture (Duke, 2002)
“Future Agonistes: The Practice of Criticism/The Politics of Reading in the Age of ‘Posts’” in Theodora Tsimpouki and Angeliki Spiropoulou eds, Culture Agonistes (Peter Lang, 2002)
“Reoccupying the Space of Culture: Greece and the Postcolonial Critique of Modernity,” Journal x: A Journal in Culture and Criticism 6:2 (Spring 2002), 77-91.
“The Limits of Civility: Culture, Nation, and Modernity in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man,” Colby Quarterly (June 2001), 164-173.
“Multiculturalism or Multinationalism?” in David Bennett, ed., Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity (Routledge, 1998). Translated in Spanish and published in Temas 28 (Cuba, March 2002), 15-25.
Interviews:
“Homi Bhabha: Between ‘nation’ and ‘culture,’” Stanford Humanities Review, Vol. 3:1, February 1993
“Naming Gayatri Spivak,” Stanford Humanities Review, Vol. 1:1, May 1989
Translations:
Yiorgos Chouliaras’ poems:
“At the Fountain,” “Churches,” Translation (Fall 2007)
“In the Center of Water,” Ploughshares 33: 1 (Spring 2007)
“Trap of Dreams,” Harvard Review 32 (Spring 2007)
