GEORGIA GOTSI CURRICULUM VITAE

GEORGIA GOTSI CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL DETAILS Work address Phone E-mail Department of Philology University of Patras 26504 Rion Patras, Greece +30-2610-969314 (office) gotsi@upatras.gr https://upatras.academia.edu/georgiagotsi RESEARCH INTERESTS Antiquity, Cultural Biography and Literature Cultural Transfer: Reception of European and North American Literatures in Nineteenth-Century Greece; Translators and Translations Immigration, Repatriation, and Symbolic Boundaries in Greek Literature since the 1980s The Jewish Presence in Modern Greek Literature: Issues of Memory and Post-memory Cities in Literature EDUCATION 1989 BA honors, Department of Philology, University of Athens, Greece. 1992 Master of Arts, Curriculum in Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A. MA thesis: The Social Significance of Space: Émile Zola's Pot-Bouille and M. Karagatses' 10. Thesis supervisor: Professor Lilian R. Furst. Examiners: Professor Dominique Fisher (University of North Carolina), Professor Diskin Clay (Duke University). 1996 Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King s College London, U.K. PhD dissertation: Experiencing the Urban: Athens in Greek Prose Fiction, 1880-1912. Dissertation supervisor: Professor David Ricks. Examiners: Professor Roderick Beaton (King s College London), Professor Dimitris Tziovas (University of Birmingham). 1

AWARDS AND PRIZES 1985-1987 State Scholarship Foundation. Awards for distinction in undergraduate studies for the academic years 1985-86 and 1986-87. 1989 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Summer Fellowship for the study of German language and literature at the J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main. 1990-1993 State Scholarship Foundation. Fellowship for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies. 1993-1995 British Academy Scholarship for Doctoral Studies. 1994 The 1994 London Hellenic Society Postgraduate Prize for my article «Narratives in Perambulation: Poe's The Man of the Crowd and Metsakes Αυτόχειρ». (See Publications C.) 1997 The Hellenic Foundation 1997 Constantine Trypanis Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of Modern Greek language and literature submitted in Great Britain. 1997 Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Fellowship Award for the completion of my book Η ζωή εν τη πρωτευούση. Θέματα αστικής πεζογραφίας από το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα. Athens: Nefeli 2004. (See Publications A.) 2010 Olympia Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies, Center for Hellenic Studies (Greece), Harvard University. 2011 National Book Award in the category Essay and Criticism for my book: «Η διεθνοποίησις της Φαντασίας». Σχέσεις της ελληνικής με τις ξένες λογοτεχνίες τον 19o αιώνα. Athens: Gutenberg 2010 (shared equally with Venetia Apostolidou). (See Publications A.) EMPLOYMENT 1996-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Greek Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University, U.S.A. 2000-2001 (spring) Visiting Lecturer (407), Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. 2001-2002 (spring) Visiting Lecturer (407), Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. 2004-2013 Assistant Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. (Tenure: 28 February 2008. Maternity leave: August 2007-October 2008. Sabbatical leave: April 2011 January 2012). 2013 (July-) Associate Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. 2

Other positions 2011-2012 Visiting Fellow, A.S. Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies, New York University (sabbatical leave from the University of Patras). RESEARCH PROGRAMS 2014 - Participation in the research program Chrysallis - Cultural Transfer and National Character in Nineteenth-Century Greek Periodicals ( Thales Program for the reinforcement of the interdisciplinary and/or inter-institutional research and innovation with the possibility of attracting high standard researchers from abroad through the implementation of basic and applied excellence research ), Scientific Coordinator: Professor Anna Tabaki, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. PUBLICATIONS A. Books Georgia Gotsi and Despina Provata. Ιστορία της Ευρωπαϊκής Λογοτεχνίας [History of European Literature]. Vol. 2 Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Patras: Hellenic Open University, 2000. Pp. 142. Η ζωή εν τη πρωτευούση. Θέματα αστικής πεζογραφίας από το τέλος του 19ου αιώνα [Life in the Capital. Topics in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Prose Fiction ]. Athens: Nefeli, 2004. Pp. 415. «Η διεθνοποίησις της Φαντασίας». Σχέσεις της ελληνικής με τις ξένες λογοτεχνίες τον 19o αιώνα [The Internationalization of Imagination. Relations of Greek and Foreign Literatures in the 19th Century]. Athens: Gutenberg, 2010. Pp. 288. (National Book Award shared equally with Venetia Apostolidou). B. Edited Volumes Special issue of the Journal Αντί, no. 641 (August 1997) on the «Ελληνικό απόκρυφο μυθιστόρημα του 19ου αιώνα» [ The Greek Mysteries s Novel of the 19 th Century ]. Ιωάννης Δ. Κονδυλάκης, Οι Αθλιοι των Αθηνών [The Miserables of Athens]. Edited and Introduced by Georgia Gotsi. 2 vols. Athens: Nefeli,1999. 3

C. Articles and Book Chapters* «Η οργάνωση της χρονικής αναπαράστασης στο Το μόνον της ζωής του ταξείδιον του Γ. Μ. Βιζυηνού», Τετράδια Ευθύνης, 29 (1989) 151-58. * Who Is Cleverer, the King or the Reader? Historia Apollonii Regis Tyrii and the Riddle of Its Narrative, Allegorica, 15 (1994) 3-21. «Άγγελος Βλάχος» (παρουσίαση - ανθολόγηση), Η παλαιότερη πεζογραφία μας. Από τις αρχές της ώς τον πρώτο παγκόσμιο πόλεμο. Vol. 5. Athens: Sokolis, 1996, 194-239. * Narratives in Perambulation: Poe's The Man of the Crowd and Metsakes Αυτόχειρ, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 20 (1996) 35-55. «Μιχαήλ Μητσάκης» (παρουσίαση - ανθολόγηση), Η παλαιότερη πεζογραφία μας. Από τις αρχές της ώς τον πρώτο παγκόσμιο πόλεμο. Vol. 6. Athens: Sokolis, 1997, 264-321. «Η ελληνική μυθιστορία Αποκρύφων του 19ου αιώνα», Αντί, 641 (August 1997) 6-17. «Υποθέσεις για το εικονογραφημένο μυθιστόρημα του 19ου αιώνα - Η περίπτωση των Αποκρύφων», Αντί, 641 (August 1997) 42-47. «Η μυθιστορία των Αποκρύφων. Συμβολή στην περιγραφή του είδους», Από τον Λέανδρο στον Λουκή Λάρα. Μελέτες για την πεζογραφία της περιόδου 1830-1880. Edited by Nassos Vagenas. Irakleio: Crete University Press 1997, 149-168. *Αντώνης Μόλχο και Γεωργία Γκότση, «Το αρχείο της εταιρείας Αλλατίνι: παρουσίαση και προκαταρκτική καταγραφή», Ίστωρ, 11 (1999) 27-38. «Αυτοκρατορία και εξωτισμός στα διηγήματα του Αλέξανδρου Ρίζου Ραγκαβή», Ο Ελληνικός Κόσμος ανάμεσα στην Ανατολή και τη Δύση, 1453-1981. Edited by Asterios Argyriou, Konstantinos A. Dimadis, Anastasia Danae Lazaridou. Athens: Ellinika Grammata,1999, vol. 1, 97-104. * A Garment of One's Own: Eugenia Fakinou's Re-Imagining of the Greek Past, Mediterranean Historical Review, 15:2 (2000) 91-110. *«Ο flâneur: θεωρητικές μεταμορφώσεις μιας παρισινής φιγούρας», Σύγκριση / Comparaison, 13 (2002) 120-138. «Νικόλαος Πολίτης και Edgar Allan Poe: Διασταυρώσεις», Μικροφιλολογικά, 17 (2005) 26-29. * Empire and Exoticism in the Short Fiction of Alexandros Rizos Rangavis, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 24:1 (2006) 23-55. *«Ο αναρχικός και οι αρχοντοχωριάτες της σκέψεως. Ο Μιχαήλ Μητσάκης για το γλωσσικό ζήτημα», Κονδυλοφόρος, 5 (2006) 103-145. «Η μεταφραστική δραστηριότητα του Ν. Γ. Πολίτη και το διήγημα», Το διήγημα στην ελληνική και στις ξένες λογοτεχνίες. Θεωρία Γραφή - Πρόσληψη. Edited with an Introduction by Heleni Politou-Marmarinou and Sofia Denissi. Athens: Gutenberg, 2009, 225-248. 4

Ritsos Penelope: Recognition and Despair, Αντιφίλησις. Studies on Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature and Culture. In Honour of John-Theophanes A. Papademetriou. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009, 585-594. «Εβραίοι και ελληνική λογοτεχνία», the books journal, 2 (December 2010) 75-77. *«Το τέρας του οικείου παρελθόντος: Ιστορία, τραύμα και μεταμνήμη στην Εβραία νύφη», Νέα Εστία, 1842 (March 2011) 451-478. Γ. Γκότση και Γ. Φαρίνου Μαλαματάρη, «Παπαδιαμάντης και New Woman Fiction. Σάρας Γραντ, Οι Δίδυμοι του Ουρανού», Proceedings of the Third International Congress on Alexandros Papadiamantis, (Athens, 7-8 October 2011). Athens: Domos 2012, 69-114. * Beyond Home Identity? Immigrant Voices in Contemporary Greek Fiction, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 30:2 (October 2012) 155-189. *«Έμψυχες αρχαιότητες. Λογοτεχνία και πολιτισμική βιογραφία τον 19ο αιώνα», Κονδυλοφόρος, 11 (2012) 51-75. *«Αναγινώσκονται, κρίνονται και εκτιμώνται, - να το είπωμεν; - περισσότερον ή εν Ελλάδι»: Νέα στοιχεία για την πρόσληψη του Γ.M. Βιζυηνού στην Αγγλία, 1883-1896», Πόρφυρας, 150 (2014) 327-342. * Tennyson in Greek Letters, 1830-1930. From Enoch Arden to Ulysses, in The Reception of Alfred Lord Tennyson in Europe, edited by Leonee Ormond, London: Bloomsbury Press, 2015 (Reception Studies series), (Pp. 60), forthcoming. *= Refereed publication D. Book Reviews Voices Against Erasure. Karen Van Dyck, Kassandra and the censors. Greek poetry since 1967: Ithaka, NY and London: Cornell UP, 1998. Pp. xi, 305, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 23 (1999) 353-357. Litsa Hatzopoulou. Λίτσα Χατζοπούλου, Αλέξανδρος Ρίζος Ραγκαβής: Μαρτυρία λόγου. Athens: Ellinika Grammata. 1999. Pp. 479 Alexandros Rizos Rangavis. Αλέξανδρος Ρίζος Ραγκαβής, Διηγήματα. Edited by Dimitris Tziovas. Athens. Idryma Kosta kai Elenis Ourani. 1999. 2 vols. Pp. 584 +563, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 18:2 (2000) 458-461. «Η βασίλισσα των βουνών. Αχιλλεύς Λεβέντης, Η Τασσώ, Φιλολογική επιμέλεια Αθηνά Βογιατζόγλου, Νεφέλη 2000, σελ. 232», Νέα Εστία, 1727 (2000) 523-526. Thomas Doulis. Out of the Ashes. The emergence of Greek Fiction in the Nineteenth Century. From Katharevousa to Ethography. Xlibris 2003, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 30:1 (2006) 97-98. 5

«Η αρχαιολογία της μνήμης στην πεζογραφία του Μισέλ Φάις» (Michel Fais, Κτερίσματα. A Novel. Athens: Patakis 2012), the books journal, 33 (July 2013) 58-61. E. Newspaper Articles «Το κριτικό του έργο», Special issue of the newspaper I kyriakatiki Avgi (Athens) on Michael Metsakes, 29 May 2005, 34-35. RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Α book-length study of treatments of material antiquity in Greek literature from the foundation of the Greek State to 1922. Αn extended essay on mediators of modern Greek culture in Britain at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of twentieth century. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS «Η μυθιστορία των Αποκρύφων. Συμβολή στην περιγραφή του είδους». Conference on Greek Prose Fiction, 1830-1880. Goulandri-Horn Foundation and Institute for Mediterranean Studies, Athens, Greece (October 1995). Re-Imagining History in Recent Greek Women's Fiction. Conference on Myth and History in Modern Greek Literature, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (November 1997). «Αυτοκρατορία και εξωτισμός στα διηγήματα του Αλέξανδρου Ρίζου Ραγκαβή». First International Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies The Greek World Between East and West, 1453-1981, Freie Universtität, Berlin (October 1998). Liaisons Dangereuses in Nineteenth-Century Greek Fiction. International Conference of the Modern Greek Studies Association, Washington, DC (October 2001). «Ο Κανάρης του Victor Hugo και οι Έλληνες ποιητές του 19 ου αιώνα». Symposium Victor Hugo, a World Voice at the Dawn of the 21st century. His Reception in Greece. Institute for Neohellenic Research, University of Athens, Embassy of France and Institut Français, Athens, Greece (November 2002). «Το διήγημα και η μεταφραστική δραστηριότητα του Ν. Γ. Πολίτη». Third International Comparative Literature Congress The Short Story in Greek and Foreign Literatures. Theory Writing - Reception, Greek Comparative Literature Association and the University of Athens, Athens, Greece (December 2005). 6

«Ο Μιχαήλ Μητσάκης για το γλωσσικό ζήτημα». Third International Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies The Greek World Between Enlightenment and the Twentieth Century, Bucharest, Rumania (June 2006). The Import of Literature. Modes of Cultural Transfer in 19th-Century Greece. European University Institute Seminar Studying Historical Audiences s Reception, Florence, Italy (June 2007). What Do Frontiers Divide? Borders and Boundaries in Contemporary Greek Writing. International Conference Greek Dimensions of Southeast European Culture since the 18th Century: Localization, Movement, Crossing Boundaries, The Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University Vienna and the Austrian Society for Modern Greek Studies, Vienna, Austria (December 2009). «Συντρίμματα και μνημεία. Η πρόσληψη της αρχαιότητας στην ελληνική λογοτεχνία του 19ου αιώνα». Scientific Meeting The Iliou Melathron in Nineteenth-Century Athens. Numismatic Museum, Athens, Greece (March 2010). Exclusion, Identity and the Immigrant Self in Contemporary Greek Writing. Fourth International Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies Identities in the Greek World (From 1204 to the Present Day), Granada, Spain (September 2010). «Σιωπές, σκιές και ίχνη. Η κληρονομιά του παρελθόντος στην Εβραία νύφη». Conference Images of Jews in Contemporary Greek Literature. Group for the Study of the History of the Jews of Greece and the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece (October 2010). «Παρατηρήσεις στην παπαδιαμαντική μετάφραση του μυθιστορήματος της Sarah Grand, Οι δίδυμοι του ουρανού / The Heavenly Twins». Joint presentation with Prof. Georgia Farinou- Malamatari at the Third International Congress on Alexandros Papadiamantis Papadiamantis Translator and Translated, The Papadiamantis Society, Athens, Greece (October 2011). «Έμψυχες αρχαιότητες. Λογοτεχνία και πολιτισμική βιογραφία τον 19 ο αιώνα». Thirteenth International Conference of the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies in memory of Pan. Moullas Modern Greek Literature and Criticism from the Enlightenment to the Present, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (November 2011). «Ο βόγγος των Καρυατίδων : υλική αρχαιότητα και πολιτισμική ταυτότητα στην ελληνική λογοτεχνία, 1830-1922». Conference in memory of Vangelis Athanassopoulos Literary journeys: History Theory Criticism, University of Athens, Greece (January 2013). «Η εβραϊκή μνήμη στη σύγχρονη ελληνική λογοτεχνία». Conference Teaching the Holocaust in Greek Schools. Theoretical Approaches and Teaching Proposals, University of Athens, Greece (March 2013). 7

The Caryatids Lament: Living Statues in a Living Tradition. International Conference Use/Reuse/Refuse. Art in Transition, Art History Department, Tel Aviv University, Israel (June 2013). Textual Navigations: Alexandros Papadiamantis and Alfred Tennyson. Joint presentation with Prof. Georgia Farinou-Malamatari at the Fifth International Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History, Literature, Thessaloniki, Greece (2-5 October 2014). INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS University of Oxford, Modern Greek Studies Seminar: The Nineteenth-Century Greek Mysteries Novel (November 1995). University of Birmingham, Modern Greek Studies Seminar: Realism and its Contours in Nineteenth-Century Greek Prose Fiction (January 1996). Harvard University, Modern Greek Studies Seminar: Tormented Performers: Cultural Dichotomies and the Artist's Split Personality in Nineteenth-Century Greek Fiction (October 1996). Boston College, Modern Greek Studies Seminar: Myth and History in Eugenia Fakinou s The Seventh Garment (October 1997). European Cultural Center of Delphi. Seminar Series on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Three lectures on the poetry of George Seferis (August 1999, August 2000, August 2005). Williams College, Mass, Department of Classics: Empire and the Orient in A. R. Rangavis' Fiction (November 2000). Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London, The Byzantine and Modern Greek Seminar: Inter-religious and Inter-ethnic Relations in 19th and 20th c. Greek Literature (February 2002). University of Thessaloniki, Department of Philology. Postgraduate Program on Modern Greek Studies and Culture (European, Balkan, and Eastern): «Ετερόθρησκες και διαφυλετικές σχέσεις στην ελληνική λογοτεχνία» (May 2003). Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece: What Do Frontiers Divide? Reflections on the Immigrant Voice in Contemporary Greek Fiction (July 2010). Columbia University Seminar, Department of Classics: Beyond Home Idenity? Immigrant Voices in Contemporary Greek Fiction (September 2011). Brown University, Modern Greek Studies Program: The Immigrant Self in Contemporary Greek Writing (November 2011). University of Ioannina, Department of Philology, Workshop on Modern Greek Literature: «Έμψυχες Αρχαιότητες ΙΙ: Τα δάκρυα των μαρμάρων. Κρυπτοαποικιοκρατία, εξορία και το όνειρο της ολομέλειας» (November 2014). 8

PUBLIC AND OUTREACH APPEARANCES Commentator of Prof. Michael Paschalis Lecture The Gestation of Zorba the Greek and its Midwives: Homer, Plato, Dante and Shakespeare, Hellenic Hunanistic Society, Greece (February 2006). Presentation of the poet Maria Kyrtzaki and her work, University of Patras (June 2007). Presentation of Dora Menti s anthology Η Αθήνα από τον 19 ο στον 21 ο αιώνα. Μια λογοτεχνική περιδιάβαση από την παλιά ως τη σημερινή εικόνα της πόλης [Athens from the 19 th to the 21 th c. From the Οld to the Contemporary Literary Image of the City], Museum of the City of Athens, Greece (January 2010). Open Lecture The Unfamiliar Gaze of Michael Mitsakis, Bookstore Polyedron, Patras, Greece (October 2010). Presentation of Rhea Galanaki s novel Φωτιές του Ιούδα, Στάχτες του Οιδίποδα [Judas s Fires, Oedipus s Ashes], University of Patras, Greece (21 January 2011). Book Presentation of Michel Fais s novel Κτερίσματα [Grave Offerings], Bookstore Discover, Patras, Greece (March 2013). Open Lecture The Beauty and The Beast: The Legend of Ali Pasha and Kyra Frosyni in Greek Literature, Bookstore Polyedron, Patras, Greece (December 2013). TEACHING SUPERVISING Undergraduate Courses 1996-2003 Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University, U.S.A. Greek Poetry since 1890 Greek Prose Fiction since 1880 Dangerous Encounters: Mediterranean Culture in Narrative and Film Ancient Greek Myth in Modern Poetry «Mediterranean Cultures: Insiders and Outsiders» (co-taught with Prof. Anthony Molho) Cavafy's Poets and the Poets's Cavafy 2000-2001 Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece Modern Greek Prose Fiction 2001-2002 Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece Interreligious and Interracial Relations in Modern Greek Literature, 19th century Myth and History in the Greek Novel, 20th century 9

2004 - Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece Topics in 20th-century Greek Prose Fiction Dionysios Solomos and the School of the Ionian Islands Post-War Greek Fiction Theory of Literature History of European Literature, 19th and 20th centuries The Generation of the 1880 s: Vizyenos Papadiamantis History of Modern Greek Literature, 18th -20th centuries (co-taught) Modern Greek Prose Fiction, 1900 World War II Modern Greek Prose Fiction, 19th and 20th centuries Postgraduate Courses 1999 (May) Department of Theater Studies, University of Athens, Greece Spectators and Spectacles in Greek Literature, 19th and 20th centuries 2001 (Febr.) Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Flânerie: Modern and Postmodern Interpretations 2008-2015 Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece Literary Theory and Criticism: Reader-Oriented Theories of Interpretation Literary Theory and Criticism: Narratologies European Literary Movements: European Romanticisms Literary Genres and Themes: Literature and Material Antiquity Comparative Literature I: Alexandros Papadiamantis as Translator Methodology of Scholarly Research (co-taught) 2012 (Nov.) Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Alexandros Papadiamantis s Translations. Theoretical Approaches Erasmus Teaching Staff Mobility Program 2005 (July) Institut für Byzantinistik, Byzantinische Kunstgeschichte und Neogräzistik, Universität München, Germany. 2010 (Febr.) Institut Néo-Hellénique, Université Paris Sorbonne - Paris IV, France. 2012 (June) Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università Ca Foscari Venezia, Italy 2014 (April) Departamento de Traducciόn e Interpretaciόn, Facultad de Filosofia y Letras, Universidad de Málaga, Spain. Supervision of BA dissertations Supervisor of three BA dissertations at Brown University (2001-2003) and six BA dissertations at the University of Patras (2005-2012). 10

Supervision of ΜA dissertations Supervisor of six MA dissertations and Member of eleven MA Examining Committees at the University of Patras, Greece (2010-2014). PhD Dissertations Supervision 2013 - Filippos Katsanos, The Mysteries of Paris and the Trials of the Foreign (France, Greece, Great Britain). Joint supervision with Professor Marie-Ève Thérenty, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier III, France. Member of PhD Committees 2008 - Dimitra Tsiga, Η ελληνική «ηθογραφία» στο πλαίσιο της πεζογραφίας των ετών 1880-1900 [Greek Ethography in the Prose Fiction of the 1880s and the 1890s]. Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. External Examiner 2008 Aliki Spyropoulou, Μορφές κατοίκησης στην Αθήνα κατά τα τέλη του 19ου αιώνα. Αρχιτεκτονικός χώρος - Λογοτεχνία [Forms of Habitation in Late 19 th -Century Athens. Architectural Space Literature]. School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, Greece. 2012 Anastassia Tsapanidou, Η Κωνσταντινούπολη στην ελληνική πεζογραφία 1830-1880 [Constantinople in Greek Prose Fiction, 1830-1880]. Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES Editorial Member of the editorial board of the international journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2014). Ad hoc reviewer for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Conferences Co-organizer of the Modern Greek Studies Lecture Series at Brown University, Providence, R.I. (1997-2003). 11

Member of the organizing committee for the International Conference Greeks and their Topoi: 18 th - 20 th -Century Diasporas, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (November 1998). Member of the organizing committee for the International Conference Memory, Identity, Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (May 2000). Organizer of the Workshop The Diaspora of the Word: Translation and Cultural Transfer, University of Patras, Greece (18 December 2012). Faculty and Student Exchange International Programs European Union SOCRATES/ΕRASMUS Program: Coordinator of collaboration with the following Universities: Université de Strasbourg (France). Università degli Studi di Catania (Italy, 2010-2013) Professional Memberships Modern Language Association (1996-2003) Modern Greek Studies Association (1996-2003) Hellenic Humanistic Society (1996- ) Greek Comparative Literature Association (2001- ) International Comparative Literature Association (2001- ) Society for Papadiamantis Studies (2013- ) ADMINISTRATIVE ACTIVITIES Brown University Responsible for planning the University Library s Modern Greek Book Collection (1996-2003). University of Patras, Department of Philology Member of Juries for new academic appointments at the University of Patras (Department of Philology) and at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (School of Philology, School of Philosophy and Pedagogy). Member of the Library Committee (2009-present). Member of the Study Program Committee (2004-2005). Member of the Study Guide Committee (2004-2006). Member of the Selection Committee for the appointment of visiting lecturers (2004-2005, 2009-2010). Member of Student Transfer Committee (2004-2007, 2010-2011). 12

Member of the Committee for the admission of external students. Member of the Socrates/Erasmus Exchange Committee (2004-2006). Responsible for the Courses and Exams Schedule (2006-2007). Member of the Buildings Committee (2009-2010). Member of the Health Committee (2008-2010). Member of the Department s Evaluation Committee (2010-2011, 2012-2014). Member of the Department s Financial Affairs Committee (2012-2014). Member of the Undergraduate Traineeships Committee (2011-2012). Member of the Committee for the organization of the Department s Summer School (2014-2015). Responsible for the undergraduate traineeship in Communication and Advertizing (2011-2012, 2012-2013). 13