Eirini Kotsovili

Senior Lecturer, Global Humanities

dkotsovi@sfu.ca

AQ 6199

Profile

Research interests

Cultural Studies
Women’s Studies
Neo-/Hellenic Studies
Comparative Literature
Theory
Memory
Identity
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 a Junior Dean (Somerville College). At SFU, she is a Senior Lecturer at the Global Humanities Department, a committee 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 and the Department of World Languages and Literatures. She leads the Memory and Trauma research cluster, together with Dr. Capperdoni and Dr. Horncastle (HUM Dept) and is the co-creator of the Greece in Context project, with Dr. Handaka (Benaki Museum, Athens, GR). Her research and teaching interests revolve around the notions of identity, memory, the field of Hellenic Studies (comparative/transnational approach) and contemporary cultural production reflecting on the relation between past and present within various socio-political contexts.

Publications

Monographs

Kornetis, Kostis, Eirini Kotsovili, and Nikolaos Papadogiannis, editors. Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s. Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.

Journal articles and book chapters

Kotsovili, Eirini D."Portraits of Another Era: The Year in Greece." Biography, vol. 47 no. 1, 2024, p. 27-30.
Kefalea, Kirki and Eirini Kotsovili, editors. "Proceedings of the International Workshop “Xenos. The Stranger, the Other, the Foreigner, the Refugee.” Site BGR of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 7 Oct. 2024.
Kotsovili, Eirini. “Review of 'Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film and Popular Culture' by Willert, Trine Stauning. Katsan, Gerasimus. London: Lexington Books.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 39, 2021, 249-52.
Klapaki, Nektaria, and Eirini Kotsovili, editors. "On the Intersections of Modern Greek Literature with Greek History and the Past." Special issue of The Journal of Modern Hellenism, vol. 34, 2019, pp. 1–153.
Kornetis, Kostis, Kotsovili, Eirini and Papadogiannis, Nikos. “Introduction” in Consumption and Gender in Southern Europe since the Long 1960s. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 1-26.
Kotsovili, Eirini. "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.

Conference presentations

"Women’s Life Writing and the Politics of the Greek Military Dictatorship." Presenter/organizer at/of the Modern Greek Life-Writing Panel; Modern Greek Studies Association, Modern Language Association Convention in 2023.
"Papadiamantis’ literary contributions and legacy for the 21st century." Presented at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens symposium, Skiathos in 2022.
"Marginalized Female Subjects in Greek and Canadia" Presented at the Modern Language Association Virtual Convention in 2021.

Older

“On Mythologies and Texts; Tracing Greek Influences in N. American Literature.” Presented in the Hellenic Studies Program at York University in 2018.
“Greek Language in the Diaspora and work of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University.” Presented to the Standing Committee of Educational Affairs, Greek Parliament in 2017.
“SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University.” Presented to the Odysseus Federation, in Argostoli, Kefalonia in 2017.
“It’s not politics, it’s personal: examining literary narratives in the post-dictatorship era.” Presented to Hellenic Studies at Princeton University in 2015.
“Online Education with Simon Fraser University.” Presented to the AHEPA Supreme Convention, in Orlando, Florida in 2013.
“Deconstructing the Notions of Identity and Gender in Greek Literature; the case of Rhea Galanaki’s ‘Eleni, or Nobody’.” Presented at the European Society of Modern Greek Studies annual meeting in Granada, Spain in 2009.
“Discussing Identity through Literature; Maro Douka’s ‘Fool’s Gold’ and Isabel Alliende’s ‘House of Spirits’.” Presented at the Modern Greek Studies Association biannual meeting at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada in 2009.

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