Maria Hadjipolycarpou

Maria Hadjipolycarpou is Lecturer in Modern Greek Language, Literature, and Culture.  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 historiography; poetry; orality; multilingualism; religion, modernity, and the state; gender, and sexuality in postcolonial literature; Cypriot literature and culture; global studies; island studies. 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.