Contact Information
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801
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Biography
Maria Hadjipolycarpou is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Modern Greek and Mediterranean studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan where she wrote her dissertation entitled, "Poetics of Self in Postcolonial Autobiography: Intersubjective Histories in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean." Before coming to Illinois she taught at Columbia University (2014 - 2017) and at The City University of New York, Queens College (2017- 2019). Primary areas of interest include literature in the Eastern Mediterranean and the relationship of autobiography, politics, and history; partition and diaspora; Cypriot literature and culture; religion, modernity, and the state; gender, and sexuality in postcolonial literature; global studies; island studies; poetry; orality and oral history. She was a 2013-2014 James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. She was a 2016-2017 Visiting Fellow at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University.
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
- CLCV 120 Decolonizing the Body: Eros and the Erotic in the Poetry of C. P. Cavafy
- CLCV 120 Storytelling and Transformation: Narratives of Self from Homer to Arianna Huffington
- GRKM 201 & 202 Elementary Modern Greek
- GRKM 403 & 404 Intermediate Greek