GEORGIA GOTSI CURRICULUM VITAE

1 GEORGIA GOTSI CURRICULUM VITAE PERSONAL INFORMATION Work address Department of Philology University of Patras 26504 Rion Patras, Greece Phone +30-2610-969325 E-mail gotsi@upatras.gr URL http://philology.upatras.gr/teachers/gkotsi-georgia/ https://upatras.academia.edu/georgiagotsi RESEARCH INTERESTS Cultural Networks, Transfers and Mediators 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 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). 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).

2 1989 BA honors, Department of Philology, University of Athens, Greece. AWARDS AND PRIZES 2011 National Book Award in the category Essay and Criticism for my book: The Internationalization of Imagination: Relations between Greek and Foreign Literature in the 19th Century. Athens: Gutenberg 2010 (shared equally with Venetia Apostolidou). (See Publications A.) 2010 Olympia Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies, Center for Hellenic Studies (Greece), Harvard University. 1997 Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Fellowship Award for the completion of my book Life in the Capital: Topics in Late Nineteenth-Century Urban Prose Fiction. Athens: Nefeli 2004. (See Publications A.) 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. 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.) 1993-1995 British Academy Scholarship for Doctoral Studies. 1990-1993 State Scholarship Foundation. Fellowship for Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies. 1989 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst. Summer Fellowship for the study of German language and literature at the J.W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt/Main. 1985-1987 State Scholarship Foundation. Awards for distinction in undergraduate studies for the academic years 1985-86 and 1986-87. EDITORIAL Member of the editorial board of the journal Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2014 -) Reviewer for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies Reviewer for the journal Σύγκριση/Comparaison/Comparison Reviewer for the Journal of Modern Hellenism EMPLOYMENT 2013 (July-) Associate Professor, Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece.

3 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). 2001-2002 (spring) Visiting Lecturer (407), Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. 2000-2001 (spring) Visiting Lecturer (407), Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. 1996-2003 Visiting Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Greek Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Brown University, U.S.A. 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 2014-2015 Participation in the research program Chrysallis - Cultural Transfer and National Character in Nineteenth-Century Greek Periodicals Scientific Coordinator: Professor Anna Tabaki, Department of Theatre Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. 2017- Member of the coordinating committee of the research program Professeurs Traducteurs Éditeurs - Médiateurs culturels entre Grèce, France et autres pays européens (1830-1974), Institute of Historical Research / Section of Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation & École française d Athènes. PUBLICATIONS A. Books - Monographs 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 between Greek and Foreign Literature in the 19th Century]. Athens: Gutenberg, 2010. Pp. 288. (National Book Award shared equally with Venetia Apostolidou).

4 B. Edited Volumes - Journals Special issue of the Journal Αντί, no. 641 (August 1997) on the «Ελληνικό απόκρυφο μυθιστόρημα του 19ου αιώνα» [ The Greek Mystery Novel of the 19 th Century ]. Ιωάννης Δ. Κονδυλάκης, Οι Αθλιοι των Αθηνών [Les Miserables of Athens]. Edited and Introduced by Georgia Gotsi. 2 vols. Athens: Nefeli 1999. C. Articles and Book Chapters* (since 2009) «Η μεταφραστική δραστηριότητα του Ν. Γ. Πολίτη και το διήγημα» [ N. G. Politis as a translator and the short story ]. In Το διήγημα στην ελληνική και στις ξένες λογοτεχνίες. Θεωρία Γραφή - Πρόσληψη. [The short story in Greek and foreign literature: Theory Writing - Reception]. Edited with an Introduction by Heleni Politou-Marmarinou and Sofia Denissi. Athens: Gutenberg 2009, 225-248. 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» [ Jews and Greek literature ], the books journal, 2 (December 2010) 75-77. *«Το τέρας του οικείου παρελθόντος: Ιστορία, τραύμα και μεταμνήμη στην Εβραία νύφη», [ The monster of our familiar past: History, trauma and post-memory in the Jewish Bride], Νέα Εστία, 1842 (March 2011) 451-478. Γ. Γκότση και Γ. Φαρίνου Μαλαματάρη, «Παπαδιαμάντης και New Woman Fiction. Σάρας Γραντ, Οι Δίδυμοι του Ουρανού» [ Papadiamantis and New Woman Fiction: The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand ]. 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» [ Living antiquities: Literature and cultural biography of the 19 th century ], 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» [ They are read, evaluated and appreciated, - let us admit it more than in Greece : New information on G. Vizyenos reception in England], Πόρφυρας, 150 (2014) 327-342. *«Ο θρήνος των Καρυατίδων : βιογραφία μιας παράδοσης (1803-1902)» [ The wailing of the Caryatids: Biography of a legend], Modern Greek Studies Online, 1 (2015) A 55-104, http://www.moderngreek.org.uk/journal/content/gotsi2015

5 *«Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: Η ελληνική πεζογραφία στην αγγλική μεταφραστική σκηνή» [ Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: Greek prose fiction in the English translation scene ], Σύγκριση/Comparaison/Comparison, 25 (2015) 23-60. «Οι στεναγμοί των αγαλμάτων: Υλική αρχαιότητα στο ποίημα Βρετανικό Μουσείο (Ελγίνου Μάρμαρα) της Κικής Δημουλά» [ The sigh of the statues: Antiquities in Kiki Dimoula s poem British Museum (The Elgin Marbles) ]. In Λογοτεχνικές διαδρομές: Μνήμη Βαγγέλη Αθανασόπουλου [Literary Journeys. In memory of Vangelis Athanassopoulos]. Edited by Thanasis Agathos, Christina Dounia, Anna Tzouma. Athens: Kastaniotis 2015, 117-131. * Tennyson in Greek Letters, 1830-1930: From Enoch Arden to Ulysses. In The Reception of Alfred Tennyson in Europe. Edited by Leonee Ormond. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2016, 303-337. «Οι Νεοέλληνες στον καθρέφτη του ξένου: Συμβολή στη μελέτη των ελληνοβρετανικών πολιτισμικών δικτύων, 1870-1900» [ Modern Greeks in a Victorian mirror: A contribution to the study of Anglo-Greek cultural networks, 1870-1900 ]. In the Proceeding of the Symposium: Ελληνικότητα και Ετερότητα: Πολιτισμικές διαμεσολαβήσεις και εθνικός χαρακτήρας στον 19o αιώνα [Greekness and Otherness: Cultural mediation and national character in the 19 th century]. 2 vols. Edited by Anna Tabaki and Ourania Polycandrioti. Athens: University of Athens & Institute of Historical Research, NHRS 2016, vol. 1, 95-116. «Η E.M. Edmonds και ο αθηναϊκός περιοδικός τύπος» [ E.M. Edmonds and the Athenian periodical press ], Μικροφιλολογικά, 41 (2017) 7-13. * Letters from E. M. Edmonds to Nikolaos G. Politis, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 41:2 (2017) 254-277. *= Refereed publication RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Α book-length study of treatments of material antiquity in Greek literature from the foundation of the Greek State to 1922. A book-length study of mediators of Modern Greek culture in Britain at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of twentieth century. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (since 2009) 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).

6 «Συντρίμματα και μνημεία. Η πρόσληψη της αρχαιότητας στην ελληνική λογοτεχνία του 19ου αιώνα» [ Debris and monuments: Reception of antiquity in Greek 19th-century literature ]. 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» [ Silences, shadows and vestiges: Τhe legacies of the past in the Jewish Bride ]. 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» [ Observations on Alex. Papadiamantis translation of Sarah Grand s novel 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» [ Living antiquities: Literature and cultural biography in 19 th -century Greece ]. 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» [ The Caryatids wailing: material antiquity and cultural identity in Greek literature, 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» [ Jewish memory in contemporary Greek literature. Conference Teaching the Holocaust in Greek Schools: Theoretical Approaches and Teaching Proposals, University of Athens, Greece (March 2013). 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).

7 «Οι Νεοέλληνες στον καθρέφτη του ξένου: Ελληνοβρετανικά πολιτισμικά δίκτυα, 1870-1900» [ Modern Greeks in a Victorian mirror: Anglo-Greek cultural networks, 1870-1900]. International Conference, Ελληνικότητα και Ετερότητα: Πολιτισμικές διαμεσολαβήσεις και εθνικός χαρακτήρας στον 19o αιώνα [Greekness and Otherness: Cultural mediation and national character in the 19 th century], Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens & National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece (14-17 May 2015). Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds: The Victorian Re-Use of Greek Folkloric Fiction. Conference: Translation and the Greek periodical press in the 19 th century, Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens, Greece (13-14 November 2015). Elizabeth Mayhew Edmonds (1823-1907): The cultural mediation of New Hellas in late nineteenth-century century Britain. International Conference: Shaping Networks from Antiquity to the Modern Era, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece (11-13 December 2015). The Limits of the Sensible: Living Antiquities in Modern Greek Literature. Archaeological Dialogues 2016: Frontiers and Limits, Mytilene, Greece (14-17 April 2016). E. M. Edmonds as biographer of Rhigas Pheraios: A woman s perspective. 7 th International Conference: Ferai - Velestino - Rhigas, Velestino, Greece (6-8 October 2017). E.M. Geldart (1844-1885): Cultural Mediation as a Means of Reform. Workshop: Professeurs Traducteurs Éditeurs - Médiateurs culturels entre Grèce, France et autres pays européens (1830-1974). National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece (16 October 2017). INVITED LECTURES AND SEMINARS (since 2009) 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). University of Patras, Department of Philology, Workshop on Modern Greek Literature: «Κική Δημουλά: Βρετανικό Μουσείο (Ελγίνου Μάρμαρα)» (April 2014). Centre for Hellenic Studies. King s College London: The Caryatids lament: the Elgin Marbles in modern Greek literature (November 2015). University of Cambridge, MML Faculty, Modern Greek Section: The Caryatids lament: the Elgin Marbles in modern Greek literature (November 2015).

8 University of Athens, Modern Greek Studies Post-Graduate Seminar:...any effort to spread the closer knowledge of the English people with Greek literature is desirable: E.M. Edmonds and the cultural mediation of New Hellas in late nineteenth-century Britain (October 2016). University of Athens, Department of History and Archaeology: «Έμψυχες Αρχαιότητες στη νεοελληνική λογοτεχνία» (November 2017). 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) 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 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

9 2008- 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 Comparative Literature I: Alexandros Papadiamantis as Translator Comparative Literature II: Literature and Material Antiquity Comparative Literature II: Networks and Cultural Mediators Methodology of Scholarly Research (co-taught) 2012 (Nov.) Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Alexandros Papadiamantis 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. 2017 (June) Centrum Modernes Griechenland; Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Supervision of ΜA Dissertations Supervisor of eight MA dissertations and Member of fifteen MA Examining Committees at the University of Patras, Greece (2010-2017). 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. 2015- Maria Bolla, Η εφημερίδα Νεολόγος (1867-1897) και η συμβολή της στην πνευματική κίνηση της Κωνσταντινούπολης [The newspaper Neologos (1867-1897): The newspaper s contribution to Constantinople s intellectual life]. Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece.

10 2017- Özlem Atay / Kardaş, «Η αναπαράσταση της Κωνσταντινούπολης και του κωνσταντινοπολίτη στην ελληνική πεζογραφία και τον κινηματογράφο της περιόδου 1998-2016» [Representations of Constantinople and of the Constantinopolitian in Greek prose fiction and cinema of the period 1998-2016]. Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. Member of PhD Supervision 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. 2014- Efthymia Stavrogiannopoulou, Τα Κείμενα Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας στη Μέση Εκπαίδευση: Θεωρητική μελέτη της δυναμικής των χαρακτήρων από τη σκοπιά της Θεωρίας της Λογοτεχνίας. [The Modern Greek Literary Texts in Greek secondary education: A study of the character dynamics from the perspective of the theory of literature]. Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras. 2016- Despoina Gkogkou, Το Μπουκέτο (1924-1946): O ρόλος ενός περιοδικού ποικίλης ύλης στη διαμόρφωση του κοινού γούστου. [The Bouketo magazine (1924-1946): Τhe role of a popular magazine in the formation of literary taste in Greece]. Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece. 2016- Chryssoula Eliadou, Η γυναικεία παρουσία στο ελληνικό μυθιστόρημα της δεκαετίας του 1980. [The female presence in the Greek novel of the 1980s], Department of Philology, University of Crete, Greece. External Examiner of PhD Dissertations 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 Conferences Co-organizer of the Modern Greek Studies Lecture Series at Brown University, Providence, R.I.

11 (1997-2003). Member, Organizing committee for the International Conference Greeks and their Topoi: 18 th- 20 th -Century Diasporas, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (November 1998). Member, Organizing committee for the International Conference Memory, Identity, Geopolitics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Brown University, Providence, R.I. (May 2000). Organizer for the Workshop The Diaspora of the Word: Translation and Cultural Transfer, University of Patras, Greece (18 December 2012). Director, Organizing committee for the Conference Rewriting: Alexandros Papadiamantis in the Fine Arts, University of Patras, Greece (14 December 2016). Member, Coordinating Committee of the Workshop Professeurs Traducteurs Éditeurs - Médiateurs culturels entre Grèce, France et autres pays européens (1830-1974) (16 October 2017). Coordinator of Faculty and Student Exchange International Programs European Union SOCRATES/ΕRASMUS Program: Coordinator of collaboration with the following Universities: Université de Strasbourg (France, 2014-). 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 the Selection Committee for the appointment of visiting lecturers (2004-2005, 2009-2010, 2016-17). Member of the Departmental Library Committee (2009-2014). Member of Student Transfer Committee (2004-2007, 2010-2011). Member of the Committee for the admission of external students.

12 Member of the Buildings Committee (2009-2010). Member of the Health Committee (2008-2010). Member of the Department s Evaluation Committee (2010-2011, 2012-2018). 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 Advertising (2011-2012, 2012-2013). Member of the Graduate Studies Program Committee (2016-2018). Departamental Representative for Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies (2016-2018). Member of various selection committees for the appointment of temporary teaching staff in the Department of Philology (2004 present). Member of various selection committees for the appointment or promotion of faculty members at the University of Patras and other Greek Universities Department of Philology (2004 present). Evaluator for the promotion of faculty members at the University of Patras and other Greek Universities in the following subject areas: i) Modern Greek Literature, ii) Comparative Literature. Evaluator of research proposals for the Program in support of young researchers (ESPA 2014-20) (code ΕΔΒΜ34) (2017).