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 Junior Dean (Somerville College). At SFU, she is 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 serves as an Editorial Board member of the Journal of Modern Hellenism. 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.
Publications
Monographs
- Co-editor. Gender and Consumer Culture in post- Authoritarian Portugal, Greece and Spain. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
Journal articles and book chapters
- Co-editor. Special Issue: Intersections of Modern Greek Literature and Greek History. The Journal of Modern Hellenism (forthcoming).
- Co-author. "Introduction." In Gender and Consumer Culture in post- Authoritarian Portugal, Greece and Spain. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016, 1-26.
- "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
- “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.
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- “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.