Dr Angeliki Spiropoulou
Professor of 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, Literary and Cultural Theory); Philosophy and art; Gender studies; History/ historiography; Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin; Modernism and Modernity; Literature, Theatre and the Arts.
Courses taught:
• European Literary Movements (19th-20th C)
• Modern and Contemporary Drama (from the Absurd to the Postmodern)
• Contemporary Theories of Artistic Creation
• Literature and Theatre: Adaptation and Creative Writing
• Interpreting Texts: Modern Theories of Literature and Drama
• Theatre and Literature: The Practice of Theatre Adaptation
• 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 Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at the Theatre Studies Department, School of Arts 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-modernisms- seminar).
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, supervised by Professor Laura Marcus.
She has also taught at the Hellenic Open University the MA course on 'Literary Theory and CreativeWriting', and the BA course 'History of European Literature' for which she co-authored the assigned textbook. She 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); London Southbank University; 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; Greenwich University and the 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 a main researcher in the EU-funded interdisciplinary research programme- THALIS on the theme of cultural transfer and the formation of national character.
Professor 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. Her new monograph Topoi of the Modern: Modernity and European Literature is due by Alexandreia publications. She recently co-edited with Jean-Michel Rabate the volume Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).
She has co-authored the Open University textbook, History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century (Patras: Hellenic Open University, 2008), and has edited or co-edited the 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 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 an interview with philosopher of history, Hayden White.
She has contributed to many volumes on modernism, such as , 1922: History, Culture, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Sentencing Orlando (Edinburgh University Press); as well as the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism.
She has organised and contributed to many international conferences and events in Greece and abroad and participates in several professional associations/academic networks. Professor Spiropoulou also publishes book reviews in the Greek press since 2003.
Professor Spiropoulou is a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies; Regional Managing Editor for Greece for TheTheatreTimes.com; Member of the Scientific Board of the ComLit referreed journal; Member of the Advisory Committee of ECHIC (Εuropean Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres) and Member of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Naric.
She is Chair of the Theatre Studies Dept since 2019 and a Deputy Dean of the School of Arts. She is also member of the Departmental Erasmus Academic Committee.
On a university level she member of the Senate; a member of the Committee of Quality Assessment and Accreditation; and of the Research Funds Committee of the University of the Peloponnese.
