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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Department of Classics

Maria Hadjipolycarpou

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Contact Information

4039 LCLB
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
Teaching Assistant Professor; Director, Modern Greek Studies Program

Biography

Maria Hadjipolycarpou is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Modern Greek Studies specializing in decolonization and Mediterranean studies.  She earned her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan. Her research delves into the intersections of autobiography, politics, and narrative communities in literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean. Her work also encompasses Greek literature and culture, the interplay between religion, modernity, and the state in the Eastern Mediterranean, and themes of class, gender, language, and identity in Mediterranean literature. Her interests extend to global studies (Africa, Asia, America), poetry, poetic form, orality, literacy, and textuality. Her scholarship emphasizes the historical significance of islands in imperial projects and she is completing a book on narrative communities in the Eastern Mediterranean. She has a forthcoming study on identities and peaceful coexistence in post-secular societies under review with De Gruyter.  Maria has presented her research extensively across the United States, Canada, and Europe and has actively organized panels for MLA, ACLA, and MGSA. Before joining  Illinois she was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University (2016-2017) and a  James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan (2013-2014). She taught at Columbia University (2014 - 2017) and at The City University of New York, Queens College (2017- 2019).  Maria is currently an elected member of the MLA Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies Forum on Mediterranean studies.



Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, University of Michigan

Master of Arts, Higher Education Administration, Purdue University
Master of Arts, Comparative Literature, Purdue University
Bachelor of Arts, Modern Greek and Byzantine Literature, University of Cyprus

Courses Taught

  • GRKM 260 Decolonizing the Body: Love and Thought in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy
  • CLCV 120 Storytelling and Transformation: Narratives of Self since the Odyssey
  • GRKM 201 & 202 Elementary Modern Greek                                                                                                                                       
  • GRKM 403 & 404 Intermediate Greek
  • GRKM 453 & 454 Advanced Greek (FA 25)



selected publications

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Hadjipolycarpou, Maria. "The Nation of Saints: The National Theological Rhetoric of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus (1913-1977)." Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 33, no. 1, 2015, p. 127-153. Excerpt.

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

Hadjipolycarpou, Maria. "Immigration, Transformation, Innovation." Transnational Narratives in Englishes of Exile, edited by Catalina Florescu, Sheng Mei Ma. Lexington Books, 2017. Amazon.
 
BOOK REVIEWS
Hadjipolycarpou, Maria. God's Wife by Amanda Michalopoulou. Translated by Patricia Felisa Barbeito, January 2021. Rain Taxi online
 
Hadjipolycarpou, Maria. Τα μυστικά της τέχνης του Καβάφη του Ερατοσθένη Γ. Καψωμένου, Άνευ 72, Δεκέμβριος 2019, 86-90.

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School of Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Department of Classics

4080 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building

707 S Mathews Ave. | MC-174

Urbana, IL 61801

217-333-1008

Email: classics@illinois.edu

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