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Eirini Kotsovili
Areas of interest
Cultural studies, women’s studies, Neo/Hellenic studies, comparative literature, theory, memory, identity, and gender studies.
Actively accepting MA students interested in:
modern / Greek literature, contemporary culture, literary theory, identity and gender
Education
- DPhil, Medieval and Modern Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
- MSt, Medieval and Modern Languages and Literature, University of Oxford
- BA, History and Hispanic Studies, McGill University
Biography
Eirini D. Kotsovili studied History, Hispanic studies at McGill University (B.A) and Literature at University of Oxford (M.St, D.Phil), where she was also Junior Dean (Somerville College). She is a member of the Stavros Niarchos Centre for Hellenic Studies, the Institute for the Humanities, as well as an Associate member of the Department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies. Together with Dr. Capperdoni and Dr. Horncastle, she leads the Memory and Trauma research cluster. Her research and teaching interests revolve around the notions of gender and identity, Modern Greece (comparative/transnational approach) and contemporary cultural production reflecting on the relation between past and present within various socio-political contexts.
Courses
Spring 2026
Future courses may be subject to change.
Recent Publication
"Special Issue: On the Intersections of Modern Greek Literature with Greek History and the Past," Co-editor, in The Journal of Modern Hellenism Vol. 34, 2019
Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s. Co-edited with Kostis Kornetis and Nikolaos Papadogiannis. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
"The Dark Side of the Sun: Aegean Islands as Places of Exile, Desolation and Death in the post-World War II Politically Turbulent Greece." In The Aegean and its Cultures. Proceedings of the first Oxford-Athens graduate student workshop organized by the Greek Society and the University of Oxford Taylor Institution, 22–23 April 2005. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2009, 139–43