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Dr. Antonis Balasopoulos, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS Email: [email protected] Phone: +357-22-892108 CURRICULUM VITAE I. EDUCATION * Bachelor's Degree (B.A) from the Aristotle University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Received with a rank of “Outstanding” [“Arista”] (1991). * Master's Degree (M.A) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the Department of English Literature. Cumulative G.P.A 4.00. Passed Master's exams with Distinction (1994). * Doctoral Degree (Ph.D) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the Department of English Literature, with a minor specialization in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (1998). Cumulative G.P.A: 4.00. Dissertation Title: “Groundless Dominions: Utopia and Empire from the Fiction of America to American Fiction.” Supervisor: Marty Roth. Committee Members: John Mowitt, Paula Rabinowitz, Keya Ganguly, Robin Brown. II. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS * Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (since 15 December 2010). * Visiting Professor, Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz (Fall quarter 2007). * Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (1 March 2006-15 December 2010). * Lecturer at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (1 March 2002-1 March 2006). * Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (September 2001-February 2002). * Guest Lecturer at the graduate seminar in literary theory in the Comparative Literature program of the school of Modern Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (January-February 2001, Asst. Prof. Michalis Chrysanthopoulos). Lectures focused on issues in Marxist cultural theory and Cultural Studies. * Guest Lecturer on 19th century African-American literature (slave narratives) at the Aristotle University in January 2001 (Literature of the American South, Professor Youli Theodosiadou). * Instructor in English at European Studies in Arts and Sciences in association with the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. September 2000-June 2001. Instructor in Media Studies and in Cultural Studies at D.E.I: Institute of Arts, Sciences and Technology, September 2000-August 2001. * Note : During the period between March 1999 and September 2000, I served my compulsory army service in the Greek army reserves. * Instructor in English Literature, Media Studies and Cinema at D.E.I: Institute of Arts and Sciences, Thessaloniki in summer 1998. * Instructor of English Literature and English Composition and Rhetoric from September 1996 to August 1997 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. * Instructor of English Literature from September 1995 to June 1996 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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Dr. Antonis Balasopoulos, Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

Email: [email protected] Phone: +357-22-892108

CURRICULUM VITAE

I. EDUCATION * Bachelor's Degree (B.A) from the Aristotle University in the Department of English Language and Literature. Received with a rank of “Outstanding” [“Arista”] (1991). * Master's Degree (M.A) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the Department of English Literature. Cumulative G.P.A 4.00. Passed Master's exams with Distinction (1994). * Doctoral Degree (Ph.D) from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, in the Department of English Literature, with a minor specialization in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature (1998). Cumulative G.P.A: 4.00. Dissertation Title: “Groundless Dominions: Utopia and Empire from the Fiction of America to American Fiction.” Supervisor: Marty Roth. Committee Members: John Mowitt, Paula Rabinowitz, Keya Ganguly, Robin Brown. II. ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS * Associate Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (since 15 December 2010). * Visiting Professor, Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz (Fall quarter 2007). * Assistant Professor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (1 March 2006-15 December 2010). * Lecturer at the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (1 March 2002-1 March 2006). * Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Cyprus, Nicosia (September 2001-February 2002). * Guest Lecturer at the graduate seminar in literary theory in the Comparative Literature program of the school of Modern Greek at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (January-February 2001, Asst. Prof. Michalis Chrysanthopoulos). Lectures focused on issues in Marxist cultural theory and Cultural Studies. * Guest Lecturer on 19th century African-American literature (slave narratives) at the Aristotle University in January 2001 (Literature of the American South, Professor Youli Theodosiadou). * Instructor in English at European Studies in Arts and Sciences in association with the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside. September 2000-June 2001. Instructor in Media Studies and in Cultural Studies at D.E.I: Institute of Arts, Sciences and Technology, September 2000-August 2001. * Note: During the period between March 1999 and September 2000, I served my compulsory army service in the Greek army reserves. * Instructor in English Literature, Media Studies and Cinema at D.E.I: Institute of Arts and Sciences, Thessaloniki in summer 1998. * Instructor of English Literature and English Composition and Rhetoric from September 1996 to August 1997 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. * Instructor of English Literature from September 1995 to June 1996 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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* Teaching Assistant in English from September 1994 to June 1995 at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. III. AREAS OF RESEARCH Comparative Utopian studies, esp. 16th-19th centuries; literature, geography and the production of space; Anglophone literature and empire; critical theory, with special emphasis on Western Marxism, post-structuralism, and post-colonialism; theories of the political; visual culture. IV. PUBLICATIONS A. Books 1. Modernisms and Utopias in the Century of Revolution. Under preparation. B. Editing of Books or Special Volumes of Periodicals 1. Antonis Balasopoulos and Stephanos Stephanides, eds. Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 13, 2005 (special issue). Thessaloniki: Aristotle University. 230 pages. 2. Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun and Theodora Tsimpouki, eds. Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 330 pages. 3. Antonis Balasopoulos and Apostolos Lampropoulos, eds. Chores Tēs Theorias: Istoria kai Geographia twn Kritikwn Aphēgēmatwn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 583 pages. 4. Antonis Balasopoulos ed., Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures (special issue). Occasion: Interdisciplinary Study in the Humanities (Stanford University), 2012. http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/occasion/issues/volume-3/issue- C. Chapters or Essays in Books 1. “Apokōdikopoiōntas to Skotos: Playing in the Dark“ [“Decoding Darkness: Playing in the Dark.”] Toni Morrison. Ed. Yiorgos Kalogeras and Domna Pastourmantzi. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Association of American Studies, 1995. 163-192. 2. Critical Introductions to Sir Thomas More's Utopia and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels. Beyond the Floating Islands, eds Stephanos Stephanides and Susan Bassnett. Bologna: University of Bologna/COTEPRA, 2002. 34-35, 58-60.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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3. “The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City.” Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Ed. Tom Moylan and Michael Griffin. Oxford et al.: Peter Lang, 2007. 117-137. 4. “Introduction.” Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States, eds. Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun and Theodora Tsimpouki. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2008. 1-6. 5. “‘Utopian and Cynical Elements’: Chaplin, Cinema and Weimar Critical Theory.” Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourse. Ed. Ralph Pordzik, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2008. 327-358. 6. “Theōria, Istoria, Kūriarhia” [“Theory, History, Sovereignty”]. Chōres Tēs Theōrias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphēgēmatōn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 475-516. 7. (with Apostolos Lampropoulos) “Peri Theoriōn” [“Of Theories”]. Chōres Tēs Theōrias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphēgēmatōn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 9-15. 8. Metakinēseis, Metanasteuseis kai Theōria” [“Displacements, Migrations and Theory”]. Chōres Tēs Theōrias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphēgēmatōn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 117-123. 9. “Polis-Istoria-Theōria: Sūntelesmenoi mellontes” [“Polis-History-Theory: Future anteriors”]. Chōres Tēs Theorias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphēgēmatōn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 201-210. 10. (with Apostolos Lampropoulos) “Meta/Theōria” [“Post/Theory”]. Chōres Tēs Theorias: Istoria kai Geographia twn Kritikwn Aphēgēmatwn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 431-441. 11. “Anti-Utopia and Dystopia: Rethinking the Generic Field” (bilingual essay, Greek trans. Viky Iakovou). Utopia Project Archive, 2006-2010, ed. Vassilis Vlastaras. Athens: School of Fine Arts Publications, 2011. 59-67, 393-402. 12. “Varieties of Lacanian Anti-utopianism”. In Spectres of Utopia, ed. Artur Blaim and Ludmiła Gruszewska Blaim, Bern: Peter Lang, 2012. 69-80, 272-275. 13. “Pigs in Heaven? Utopia, Animality and Plato’s Hūopolis”. The Epistemology of Utopia: Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination. Ed. Jorge Bastos da Silva. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013. 8-27. 14. “On Desertification and the Creative Powers of Language: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” Dystopia(n) Matters: On the Page, On Screen, On Stage, ed. Fátima Vieira. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press (June 2013). 58-63.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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15. “Celestial Cities and Rationalist Utopias”. In The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. Ed. Kevin McNamara. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 17-30. “Outstanding Academic Title”, Choice Reviews. 16. “The Negation of Negation: On Demand the Impossible and the Question of Critical Utopia”. In Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination, revised edition, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. 263-269. 17. “Utopia and Marxism”. Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literature. Ed. Fatima Vieira, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor and Peter Marks. Under contract with Palgrave Press. 18. “Conrad, Ideology and Utopia.” Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian. Ed. Justyna Galant and Marta Komsta. Bern: Peter Lang, Mediated Fictions vol. 15. Forthcoming. D. Articles in International, Peer-Reviewed Academic Journals 1. “Unworldly Worldliness: America and the Trajectories of Utopian Expansionism.” Utopian Studies 15.2 (2004): 3-35. Published by the Society of Utopian Studies/University Press of America. 2. “‘Suffer a Sea Change’: Spatial Crisis, Maritime Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia.” Cultural Critique 63 (Spring 2006): 122-156. Published by the University of Minnesota Press. 3. “Nesologies: Island Form and Postcolonial Geopoetics.” Postcolonial Studies 11.1 (2008): 9-26. Published by Routledge. 4. “Ghosts of the Future: Marxism, Deconstruction, and the Afterlife of Utopia.” Theory & Event. 12.3 (2009). Non Paginated. Published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. 5. “Factories, Utopias, Decoration and Upholstery: On Utopia, Modernism and Everyday Life”. Utopian Studies 25.2 (2014): 268-298. Published by Penn State University Press. 6. (with Vasso Yannakopoulou). “‘Suspicor enim eam gentem a graecis originem duxisse’: Translating Utopia in Greek”. Utopian Studies 27:2 (2016): 308-322. Published by Penn State University Press. 7. “Dark Light: Utopia and the Question of Surplus Population.” Utopian Studies 27.3 (2016): 615-629. Published by Penn State University Press. 8. “Utopian Studies in Greece Today: A Brief Survey”. Utopian Studies, 2016 27.3 (2016): 441-448. Published by Penn State University Press.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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E. Articles in International Academic Journals 1. “The Demon of (Racial) History: Reading Candyman.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 5 (1997): 25-47. Published by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 2. “‘The Latter Part of [the] Commonwealth Forgets the Beginning': Empire and Utopian Economics in Early Modern New World Discourse.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 9 (2001): 31-53. Published by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 3. “The Spatial Politics of Partition Literature.” The European English Messenger 11.2 (2002): 53-56. Published by the European Society for the Study of English. 4. “Progress, Regression, Repetition: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes and the Ambivalences of Imperial Modernity.” Imaginaires 9 (2003): 199-213. Published by Université de Reims, Champagne-Ardenne. 5. (with Stephanos Stephanides). “The Work of the Worl(ld): Comparative Literature and Global Studies.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 13 (2005): 7-19. Published by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 6. “‘Utopiae Insulae Figura’: Utopian Insularity and the Politics of Form” Transtext(e)s- Transcultures: Journal of Global Cultural Studies. Hors Série Poésie et Insularité (January 2008): 22-38. Published by Université de Lyon III. 7. “The Discreet Charm of the ‘Anarchist Sublime’: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Revisited”. “Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures”, ed. Antonis Balasopoulos, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Stanford University (2012): 1-23. 8. “Introduction: Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures”, ed. Antonis Balasopoulos, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, Stanford University (2012): 1-34. F. Articles in Meetings' Minutes (Selected Conference Proceedings) 1. “Writing Nation Other-Wise: Captivity and the Uses of Alterity in Royall Tyler's The Algerine Captive.” The Other Within. Vol I: Literature and Culture, ed. Ruth Parkin-Gounelas. Thessaloniki: Athanasios Altintzis, 2001. 35-48. G. Articles in Greek Journals 1.“Ē diakritiki goēteia tou anarxikou Ypsilou: Mia epanepiskepsi tēs ‘kūriarxēs exousias’ kai tis ‘gūmnēs zoēs’”. Translation of modified version of “The Discreet Charm of the ‘Anarchist Sublime’: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Revisited”. Trans. Giorgos Katsampekis. Synchrona Themata 113 (Apr.-Jun. 2011): 50-62.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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2. “Dianooumenoi kai kratos: Sūmpaignies, sūgkrouseis, rēxeis”. Translation of modified version of “Introduction”. “Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures”. Trans. Effie Avgita. Praxis Marxist Review, 2 (Dec. 2012): 44-72. 3. “To halyvourgiko manifesto.” [“The Steelworks Manifesto”]. Praxis Marxist Review, 2 (Dec. 2012): 133-143. 4. “Krisē, dikaio, messianismos: Sxetika me to ‘Gia mia kritiki tēs vias’ tou Walter Benjamin”. Translation of modified version of “Crisis, Justice, Messianism: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’”. Trans. Antonis Balasopoulos with Effie Avgita. Praxis Marxist Review 3 (April 2012): 64-85. H. Book Reviews and Review Essays 1. “The Limits of Eloquence: Debating the Post-colonial." Review of Homi K. Bhabha's “Postcolonial Criticism.” Available online at the University of Minnesota's New Voices from Within: Graduate Student Essays on the Profession of English Studies, 1996. (http://english.cla.umn.edu/faculty/bales/newvoice.html). 2. Review of Theodora Tsimpouki and Angeliki Spiropoulou (eds.). Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts (Peter Lang, 2002). European Journal of American Culture 23.1 (2004): 66-67. Published by Intellect Books. 3. Review of Sterling F. Delano, Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia (Harvard University Press, 2004). European Association of American Studies. Section of Book Reviews (2005). 4. Review of Lee Edelman, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke University Press, 2004). Journal of American Studies 40.2 (2006): 425-426. Published by Cambridge University Press. 5. Review of Paola Gemme, Domesticating Foreign Struggles: The Italian Risorgimento and Antebellum American Identity (Georgia University Press, 2005). European Association of American Studies. Section of Book Reviews (2006). 6. Review of Andrew Loman, ‘Somewhat on the Community-System’: Fourierism in the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Routledge, 2005). Utopian Studies 17.3 (2006): 547-551. Published by Society for Utopian Studies/University Press of America. 7. “American Literature for a Post-American Era.” Review of Wai Chee Dimock and Lawrence Buell, Shades of the Planet: American Literature as World Literature (Princeton University Press, 2007. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 16 (2008). 315-321. Published by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus P.O Box 20537, 1678 Nicosia, CYPRUS

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8. Review of Vincent Geoghegan, Utopianism and Marxism (Peter Lang, 2008). European Journal of American Studies (http://ejas.revues.org/document7565.html). Published by the European Society for American Studies. 9. Review of Ruth Levitas, The Concept of Utopia (Peter Lang, 2010). European Journal of American Studies (http://ejas.revues.org/index8514.html). Published by the European Society for American Studies. 10. Review of Jonathan Pitcher, Excess Baggage: A Modern Theory and the Conscious Amnesia of Latin Americanist Thought (Peter Lang, 2009). Synthesis 2 (Fall 2010): 84-87. http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/configurations-of-cultural-amnesia-2-2010/books-2-balasopoulos.html. Published by the University of Athens. 11. Review of Andrew Milner, ed., Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Science Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia (Peter Lang, 2010). European Journal of American Studies (http://ejas.revues.org/8876). Published by the European Society for American Studies. 12. Review of Jason H. Pearl, Utopian Geographies and the Early English Novel. Charlottesville and London: University of Virginia Press, 2014. Utopian Studies, 27.3 (2016): 640-645. Published by Penn State University Press. 13. Review of Aristidis G. Romanos, Tlön: Journey to a Utopian Civilisation. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2015. Utopian Studies, 28.2 (2017): 354-361. I. Translations into Greek 1. Jacques Rancière, Maĵtre Ignorant, (translated extract). Polydromo: Journal on Bilingualism, and Multiculturalism in Education and Society 2 (Dec. 2009/Jan. 2010): 18-21. 2. “Ypotheseis yia to stasimo kratos”. Translation of Gopal Balakrishnan,“Speculations on the Stationary State”, orig. pub. New Left Review 1/59, September-October 2009, in Synchrona Themata 107 (Oct.-Dec. 2009): 8-21. 3. “Mikroastikos kai Proletariakos Socialismos.” Translation of V.I. Lenin, “Petty-bourgeois and Proletarian Socialism”, orig. pub. Proletary 24.7, 1905. Marxists Internet Archive: http://www.marxists.org/ellinika/archive/lenin/works/1905/10/proletarian-socialism.htm 4. “Epanastasē kai Epanalūpsē”. Translation of Kojin Karatani, “Revolution and Repetition”, Eneken 17 (September 2010): 48-70. 5.“Domikes Krisēs”. Translation of Immanuel Wallerstein, “Structural Crises”, orig. pub. New Left Review 62, April 2010. Synchrona Themata 110 (July-September 2010): 90-96.

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6. “O Marxismos e koinoniologia kai e theoria tou kratous ston Poulantza”. Translation of Simon Clarke, “Marxism, Sociology and Poulantzas’s Theory of the State.” Praxis Marxist Review 3 (December 2013): 26-65. J. Unpublished Translations 1. Ayios Pavlos: To themelio tou oikoumenismou, unpublished translation of Alain Badiou, St. Paul. La fondation de l' universalisme (completed 2009). 2. “Oi dromoi tēs apostasias”, translation of Alain Badiou, “Roads to Renegacy”, orig. pub. New Left Review 53 (September-October 2008) (completed Fall 2010). 3. “Ē politike tou Badiou: Isotēta kai dikaiosunē”, translation of Peter Hallward, "Badiou's Politics: Equality and Justice", orig. pub. Culture Machine 4, 2002 (completed Fall 2010). 4. Erik Olin Wright, “Oramatizomenoi Pragmatikes Outopies”, translation of “Envisioning Real Utopias”, orig. pub. New Left Project, 15 June 2010 (completed Summer 2010). 5. Alain Badiou, “Dūo seminaria gia tēn paravoli tōn kratoumenon ston Lacan”, translation of two chapters from Théorie du sujet, Paris, Seuil, 1982 (completed Jan. 2011). 6. Bruno Bosteels, “O Badiou chōris ton Zizek”, translation of “Badiou without Zizek”, Polygraph 17 (2005), The Philosophy of Alain Badiou, ed. Matthew Wilkens (completed Jan. 2011). K. Other Publications 1. Assistant Editor, Cultures of Memory/Memories of Culture, ed. Stephanos Stephanides. Nisosia: University of Nicosia Press, 2007. 2. “‘Cyprus’: The Insubordination of the Moment”/ “‘Kypros: H apeitharhia tēs stigmēs.” Bilingual text on the documentary “Cyprus” 1929, Booklet of the International Documentary Film Festival, Limassol, 2008. 3. “Kūmatomorfi: Mia synoptiki istoria” [“Wave form: A Brief History”]. Eleftherotypia, Container 8, June 2010: 22. 4. “To ‘metanasteftiko’ einai politico zitima” [“Immigration is a political issue”] Kathreftis, 1 (7 Feb. 2011), 5. 5. “A Brief Comment on Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theologico-political fragment’” (prose essay), Shoppinghour 6: 22-23.

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6. “O Lenin kai to telos tis vias” [“Lenin and the End of Violence”]. Container, June 2011. (http://konteinermag.blogspot.com/2011/07/blog-post.html) 7. “Krisē kai aristera stin Ellada” [“Crisis and the Left in Greece”]. The Cyprus Dossier 3 (July 2012): 51-53. L. Creative Writing 1. “Ten Theses on Writing” (prose essay) Shoppinghour 2: 4 2. “Snail” (poetry) and “Thinking Things” (prose essay), Shoppinghour 3: 4, 7. 3. “Amnemones” (poetry), Shoppinghour 4: 8. 4. “Thessaloniki, March 1943” (poetry) and “Enemies” (poetry), Shoppinghour 5: 9-11. 5. Through the Loophole: Archive of Ellipitical Impulses [Ap’ to Mati tēs Velonas: Arheio Elliptikwn Parormisewn]. (Prose essays). Athens: Astra, 8, 2011. 69 pages. 6. The Book of Brief Reflections [To vivlio tōn Mikrōn Syllogismōn]. Athens, Astra, 2011. 94 pages. 7. “Laika”. Cadences: A Journal of Literature and the Arts in Cyprus 7 (2011): 74-75. V. CONFERENCE AND SYMPOSIA PAPERS 1. “'Bringing it All Back Home': The Heim and the Unheimlich in Betty Mahmoudy's Not Without My Daughter.” Third International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English, Thessaloniki, Greece, 7-9 May 1998. *Unpublished paper cited in: Marty Roth, “Gilman’s Arabesque Wallpaper”, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 34.4 (2001): 145-162. 2. “Beyond the Myth of the Wild West: The Case of John Sayles and Jim Jarmusch” (in Greek). “Mass Culture in the United States,” a colloquium organized by the Hellenic Association of American Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, 16 May 1998. 3. “(Dis)Figuring Labor: Cinema, Mechanization, and the Body in Edward Scissorhands and Beyond.” Presented at colloquium on critical theory, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, 15 November 2000. 4. “Racial Cross-dressing: Race and Otherness in an 18th-century Captivity Narrative.” Presented at the Salzburg Seminar on American Studies, Austria, March 13 2001. 5. “Progress, Regression, Repetition: Reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes.” Colloque La Repetition, Université de Reims, France, 14-15 March 2002.

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6. “'A la Recherche Du Pays Perdu': Notes on the Spatial Imaginary of Partition Literature.” Fourth International H.A.S.E Conference, Athens, Greece, 24-27 May 2002. 7. “Towards a Second Innocence: Dziga Vertov and Avant-Garde Utopia” (in Greek). Introduction to the Screening of Dziga Vertov's The Man With the Movie Camera, Avant-Garde and Underground Film Festival, Nicosia June 2002. 8. “The Representation of Limits and the Limits of Representation.” “Visualizing Nation, State and Community”: International Visual Sociology Association Conference, Santorini, Greece, 13-18 July 2002. 9. “Nationalizing the Continent, Americanizing the World: The Utopian Unconscious of 'American Studies.'” Invited panel presentation at “Does the United States Subsume the Idea of America?”, a colloquium organized by the Hellenic Charter of the European Association of American Studies, Athens, Greece, 21 March 2003 . 10. “Incalculable Distance: Utopia, the 'New World,' and the Poetics of Deterritorialization.” International American Studies Association First World Congress, Leyden, Netherlands, 22-24 May 2003. 11. “Figures of Im/possibility: Fin-de-Siècle Utopian Fiction and the Cultural Work of Post-territorial Expansionism.” Fourth Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Spain, 25-29 June 2003. 12. “Island Form and Utopian Fiction: Reflections on the Boundaries of a Genre.” 6th British Council Symposium on English Studies in Europe. Delphi, Greece, 7-13 September, 2003. 13. “Transmutations of Nowhereness: Utopia in the Age of the 'Oceanic Turn.’” 5th International conference of the Utopian Studies Society, University of Porto, Portugal, 8-10 July 2004. 14. “By Land and Sea: Science Fiction and Imperial Geopolitics in Turn-of-the-Century America.” 29th International Conference of the Society for Utopian Studies, Toronto, Canada, 7-10 October 2004. 15. “Is this Philosophy? Some Remarks on the Mythical Space of Atlantis in Plato's Critias.” Hellenic Studies Workshop, Princeton University, USA, 21 January 2005. 16. “The Polis of Philosophy and the Polis of Politics: On the Problem of Utopia in Plato's Late Dialogues.” First Ralahine Conference on Utopian Studies, University of Limerick, College of Humanities, Ireland, March 11-12, 2005. 17. “Spectral Empires: U.S. Science Fiction and Expansionist Geopolitics, 1889-1899.” 50th British Association of American Studies Conference, Robinson College, Cambridge University, UK, 14-17 April 2005.

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18. “States of Theory: History, Theory, Sovereignty” (in Greek). States of Theory: The History and Geography of Critical Narratives, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 23-25 September 2005. 19. “Making Place for America: U.S. Science Fiction and Expansionist Geopolitics, 1889-1899.” American Studies Association, Washington D.C, USA, November 3-6 2005. 20. “ ‘Ex non insula fecit insulam’: Utopian Discourse and the Poetics of Insularity” Colloque Poésie et Insularité, Department of French Studies and Modern Languages, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 17-19 March 2006. 21. “Ghosts of the Future: Jameson, Derrida, and the Afterlife of Utopia.” Presentation at “Politics and Fidelity” Invited Symposium, 30th International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Freiburg-Basel-Strasbourg, 5-10 June 2006. 22. Invited Participant, Roundtable on “Transcultural American Studies and Transdisciplinarity,” American Studies Association Conference, Oakland, California, USA, 12-15 October, 2006. 23. “Ghosts of the Future: Jameson, Derrida, and the Afterlife of Utopia.” Invited speaker, Center for Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, 16 October 2006. 24. “Utopiae Insulae Figura: Utopian Insularity and the Politics of Form.” Invited Speaker, Utopian Encounters III: Mapping Dreams and Nightmares, University of Porto, Portugal, 14-15 December, 2006. 25. “Political Animals, or, The Bare Life of Sovereignty.” International Association for Philosophy and Literature, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 4-9 June, 2007. 26. “Science Fiction and US Imperialism 1880-1900.” Invited Speaker, Futures of American Studies Institute, Dartmouth College, USA, 18-24 June 2007. 27. “Counting (with Cyprus): Parts, Partitions, Departures”. Invited Speaker, “Parts, Partitions, Departures: Dissecting Imperial Affect”, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2-3 June 2008. 28. “Of Dogs, Angels, and Creatures in Between: Chaplin/Kafka/Benjamin/Agamben”. 9th International Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Limerick, Ireland, 3-5 July 2008. 29. “'Utopian and Cynical Elements': Chaplin, Cinema, and Weimar Critical Theory”, University of Limerick, Ireland, 22 April, 2009. 30. “New Advocates: Of Theory, Utopia, and Kafka's Animals”. University of Limerick, Ireland, 23 April, 2009.

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31. “Political Animals: Critical reflections on the Homo Sacer Project”. University of California, Santa Cruz and Stanford University, USA, 13-14 May, 2009. 32. “Kafka, Otherness and Generic Thresholds". 10th Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Porto, Portugal 1-4 July, 2009. 33. “Utopia, Modernism, and Failure: Franz Kafka’s Impossibilities.” Modernism and Utopia Conference, University of Birmingham, U.K, 23-24 April 2010. 34. “Varieties of Lacanian anti-utopia.” 11th Utopian Studies Society Conference, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 7-10 July 2010. 35. “Utopia, Modernism, and the Everyday”. The Everyday: International Conference of the Hellenic Semiotic Society, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 5-7 November 2010. 36. “Crisis, Justice, Messianism: On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’”. 12th Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-11 July 2011. *Unpublished paper cited in: Donald Manderson, Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law: The Legacy of Modernism, London: Routledge, 2012. * Donald Manderson, “Modernism, Polarity and the Rule of Law”, Yale Journal of Law the Humanities, 24: 2 (2012): 475-505. 37. “On Georges Sorel’s Reflections on Violence and its Theoretical Implications”. 12th Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-11 July 2011. 38. “Utopia, Modernism and Everyday Life” 36th Society of Utopian Studies Conference, Penn State University, USA, 20-23 October 2011. 39. “On Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’” 1st Annual CYSSE Conference, University of Nicosia, Cyprus, 23 March 2012. 40. “On Anti-Utopianism”. 36th IAPL Conference, Talinn University, Estonia, 28 May-3 June 2012. 41. “Utopia Gone to the Pigs?: Plato’s The Republic, 370c-372d”. 13th Utopian Studies Society Conference, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain, 4-7 July 2012. 42. “Through the Futurological Roadblock: Revolution, Counter-Revolution, Repetition”, Through the Roadblocks: Realities in Raw Motion Conference, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, 23-25 November 2012. 43. “Fables of Revolution: Alain Badiou and Cinematic Science Fiction”, 14th Utopian Studies Society Conference, New Larnark, Scotland, 1-4 July 2013.

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44. “Beyond Means and Ends: Reflections on Violence and Utopia in the Work of Andrei Platonov”, 15th Utopian Studies Society Conference, Charles University, Prague, Czech, 2-5 July 2014. 45. “Karl Popper, Anti-Utopia and the Ideological Construction of ‘Totalitarianism’”. 39th Society for Utopian Studies Conference, Montréal, Canada, 22-26 October 2014. 46. “Love, Politics and Utopia”: On Andrei Platonov’s ‘Aphrodite’. 16th Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society. Newcastle, UK, 1-4 July 2015. 47. “Utopian Antinomies: Thinking the Contemporary Political Situation in Greece”. 16th Annual Conference of the Utopian Studies Society. Newcastle, UK, 1-4 July 2015. 48. “Love, Politics and Utopia”: On Andrei Platonov’s ‘Aphrodite’. 40th Annual Meeting of the Utopian Studies Society, Pittsburgh, USA, 5-8 November 2015. 49. “Dark Light: More, Marx, Foucault and the Question of Relative Surplus Population.” Invited talk at Utopia Today: The Future as Horizon for Social and Political Action, Universitair Centrum Sint-Ignatius, Antwerp, Belgium, 23-25 May 2016. 50. “Utopia and Anomie: On Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur”. 17th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society/Europe, Lisbon, Portugal, 5-9 July 2016. 51. “Utopia and Anomie: On Andrei Platonov’s Chevengur”. 41st Society for Utopian Studies International Conference, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, 27-30 October, 2016. 52. “‘The earth again/Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set’: On Weak Messianism and Modernist Angelology.” “Utopia After the Human”, Imaginaries of the Future Research Network, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, 11-12 April 2017. 53. “Conrad, Ideology and Utopia.” 18th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 5-8 July 2017. 54. “Friends, Enemies and Imagined Communities: Reflections on Utopian Pragmatism and the Cyprus Question.” Invited presentation on the panel “Solidarity and Utopia”, 18th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society, University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland, 5-8 July 2017. 55. Invited Symposium Respondent, “Utopia, Now!” Imaginaries of the Future Research Network, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK, 29-31 August 2017. 56. Introduction: Transition, the Novum, Utopia. “Matters of Invention: Utopia, Materialism and the Early Modern.” International Symposium, Classic Hotel, Nicosia, Sept. 27-28, Cyprus. VI. PRESENTATIONS AT SEMINARS AND CULTURAL EVENTS

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1. Racial Cross-dressing: Race and Otherness in an 18th-century Captivity Narrative. Presented at the Salzburg Seminar on American Studies, Austria, March 13 2001. The speaker was also selected as one of four panel speakers (speech on “Culture and Difference in the American context”) in the same seminar. 2. Towards a Second Innocence: Dziga Vertov and Avant-Garde Utopia. Introduction to the Screening of Dziga Vertov's The Man With the Movie Camera, Avant-Garde and Underground Film Festival, Nicosia June 2002. 3. “Modernism, Utopia and Everyday Life”. Open Lecture at the University of Nicosia, English Lecture Series, 7 March 2012. 4. “On Crisis and Justice: Walter Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”. Presentation at the “Crisis and the Humanities” Lecture Series of the School of Humanities, University of Cyprus, 6 November 2013. 5. “The Two Faces of Cynicism, or the Threepenny Opera as a Guide to Hard Times”, Presentation at the National Theater of Cyprus on the occasion of the staging of the Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht, 22 November 2013. 6. Presentation on Martin Heidegger’s “What is Metaphysics”, Philosophy Reading Group, University of Cyprus, 15 May 2015. 7. “Hunger, World, the X: On Ghosh and Hillis-Miller’s Thinking Literature Across Continents.” Invited talk at Roundtable on Ranjan Ghosh and Hillis-Miller’s Thinking Literature Across Continents, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 26 April 2017. VII. ADMINISTRATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL DUTIES Α. DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY ADMINISTRATION * Department Course Schedule Coordinator (2002-2004) * M.A and Ph.D Program Guidelines Drafting and revisions (2002) * Undergraduate and Postgraduate Guides Drafting and Revisions (2002-2007) * Undergraduate and Post-graduate student advisor (2002-present) * Fulbright Coordinator (2005-present) * Literature Postgraduate program coordinator (2007-2012) * School of Humanities Board Member (Spring 2005, 2012-2014) * Member, Ad-hoc committee for credit conversion to ECTS system (2006) * Senate Committee for Postgraduate Studies (Spring 2005) * Senate Research Committee (2007-2009) * Literature Section Coordinator (Fall 2009, September 2016-) * Member, ad-hoc committees for distribution of KYSATS funding and teaching- relief Department regulations. * University Committee for Students with Disabilities (2010-2011) * Member, School of Humanities Board (2010-2011, May 2012-) * Member, hiring committee, EEP (Special Training Staff) Position in the Department of English Studies (Spring 2011) * Chair, hiring committee, EEP Position in the Department of English Studies (Fall 2011) * Chair, Department of English Studies (May 2012-May 2014) * Chair, Specialist Committee for EEP Evaluation (June 2012) * Chair, Specialist Committee for EEP Evaluation (November 2014)

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* Member, Committee for Transfer Student Applications (June 2012-January 2016) * Member, University Senate (June 2012-June 2014) * Coordinator, Department of English Studies External Evaluation, 2014 * Member, Hiring Committee for Literary Translation (Spring 2015) * Member, University Senate Committee for Building Development (September 2015-January 206) * Vice Chair, Department of English Studies (May 2014-January 2016) * Senate Publishing Policy Committee (September 2016-) * Senate Postgraduate Studies Committee (September 2016-) * Member, Ad-hoc committee for the drafting of the Department of English three- year Strategic Plan * Member, Specialist Committee for EEP Evaluation (Fall 2017) Β. CONFERENCE ORGANIZING AND CHAIRING * Co-organizer and session chair, Cyprus Society for the Study of English International Conference on “Cultures of Memory/Memories of Culture,” Nicosia, 20-22 February 2004. * Session chair, “Orientalism, Sexuality, Body Politics”, “Languages of Gender” International Conference 15-17 May 2003 Nicosia, Cyprus. Chair, * Coordinator of the two-week official visit of Professor Jonathan Auerbach, senior Fulbright Specialist in American Studies. * Co-organizer (with Maria Margaroni), chair, and round-table moderator for symposium on “Comparative Cultural Studies and Globalization,” University of Cyprus, Nicosia 19-20 November 2004. Participants: Christopher L. Connery, Stuart Elden, Masao Miyoshi, R. Radhakrishnan. * Co-organizer and co-chair (with Apostolos Lampropoulos), “States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives,” Nicosia, 23-25 September 2005. * Principal organizer, “Conformism, Anti-conformism and Non-conformism in American Culture,” the European Association of American Studies biannual conference, Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-10 April 2006. * Co-organizer and co-chair (with Marios Constantinou) of Invited Symposium “From Polis to the Camp: Polemical Modalities and Spatial Intensities of the Political,” International Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 5-9 June 2007. * Chair for the lectures by Timothy Brennan and Marios Constantinou, International Symposium on “Parts, Partitions, Departures: Dissecting Imperial Affect”, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 2-3 June 2008. * Chair, “Islands and Nature”. 9th Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Ireland, Limerick, 2-6 July 2008. * Organizer, “Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures”. 20-21 March and 5-6 June 2009, Classic Hotel, Nicosia. Participants: Gopal Balakrishnan, Crystal Bartolovich, Moses Boudourides, Timothy Brennan, Christopher Connery, Keya Ganguly, Dimitris Papadopoulos, Gregory Paschalides, Bruce Robbins, Alberto Toscano.

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* Chair, “Anti-Utopias”, 10th Utopian Studies Society Conference, University of Porto, Portugal, 1-4 July 2009. * Chair, “Community and Friendship in Early Modern Literature and Culture”, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 30 April-1 May 2010. * Chair, Plenary Opening Roundtable, 15th Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Conference, 6-11 June, University of Cyprus, Nicosia. * Chair, “Dystopian Paradigms”, 11th International Conference of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe), Maria-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland, 7-11 Jully 2011. * Chair of the Organizing Committee, Utopian Studies Society Conference, 8-11 July 2011, University of Cyprus, Nicosia. Chair for keynote address by Yannis Stavrakakis and for Session “The Politics of Utopia V” at the same conference. * Chair, “Architecture, Urban Planning and Utopia”, 14th Utopian Studies Society Conference, 1-4 July 2013. * Co-Organizer, “Matters of Invention: Utopia, Materialism and the Early Modern” International Symposium. Classic Hotel, Nicosia, Cyprus, 27-28 September 2017. Participants: Sarah Hogan, Robert Appelbaum, Stella Achilleos, Hanan Yoran, Oddvar Holmesland. VIII. COMMITTEE AND SUPERVISION WORK IN THE GRADUATE PROGRAM M.A. Thesis Supervision and Work as Thesis Second Reader * M.A thesis supervisor for the following M.A students: 1. Stella-Maria Vassiliou. Thesis title: “The Concept of Sovereignty in Four Shakespeare Plays”. Graduated June 2006. 2. Yulia Koba. Thesis title: “‘The Complete Enslavement of Freedom of Conscience’: Dostoevsky’s Critique of Russian Radicalism”. Graduated June 2008. 3. Andriana Kossiva. Thesis title: “Radical Utopias of the 20th century: Anti-authoritarian Perspectives in Feminist Science Fiction”. Graduated September 2011. 4. Antonia Peroikou. Thesis title: “Thinking Animals: Writing Across the Species Boundary in Kafka, Benjamin, and Derrida.” Graduated June 2012. 5. Agatha Karacosta. Thesis title: “Discipline, Population and Colonialism: Utopia and Social Power in More, Bacon and Defoe.” Graduated June 2017. Received Best Graduate Thesis Award, June 2017. 6. Maria Nicolaou. Thesis title: “Mapping Modernism: Imperialism, Meaning Loss and the Problem of Totality in Schreiner, Forster and Woolf”. 7. Marios Constantinou. Thesis Topic: J.M. Coetzee and the Affect of Shame. 8. Andreas Kiayias. Thesis Topic: Intersubjectivity and the Problem of Recognition in Conrad, Salih, Wright and Ellison. 9. Lina Protopapa. Thesis Topic: Race, Sexuality and Masculinity in Salih, Imamu Amiri Baraka and Genet. * Second M.A thesis reader for the following M.A. graduates (all have graduated): 1. Skevi Constantinou

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2. Maria Dritsou 3. Maria Pelekanou 4. Evie Agathocleous 5. Eleni Papadopoulou 6. Karine Voskeritchan 7. Irene Papakyriakou 8. Georgia Anna Theoklitou PhD Dissertation Supervision and PhD Research and Examination Committee Work * PhD supervisor for the following doctoral students: 1. Antonia Peroikou (admitted Fall 2012; passed PhD Comprehensive Exams January 2014; passed PhD Proposal stage June 2015, currently ABD). PhD dissertation title: “Of Jews, Animals, Women and Cyborgs: Writing Beyond ‘Man’, from Kafka to Malamud”. Received University of Cyprus PhD fellowship, 2017-8. 2. Nicole Papadopoulou (admitted Spring 2014; passed PhD Comprehensive Exams February 2016; passed PhD proposal stage May 2017, currently ABD). PjD dissertation title: “Captivated Lives/Captivating Fictions: Representations of the Muslim Orient in the American Imagination from the 1780s to the 1920s”. Received University of Cyprus PhD fellowship, 2016-7. 3. Antonis Prokopiou (admitted Fall 2015; currently at PhD Comprehensives stage). Received University of Cyprus PhD fellowship, 2016-7. * Internal committee member for the following PhD candidates: 1. Dalia Staponkutè (successfully defended PhD dissertation, 24/11/2010) 2. Andreas Athanasiades (successfully defended PhD dissertation, 16/4/2013) 3. Marios Vasileiou (successfully defended PhD dissertation, 3/4/2014) 4. Anna Misiaouli, Department of Turkish Studies (passed PhD proposal stage, April 2017). 5. Eleni Gelasi IX. B.A HONORS THESIS SUPERVISION 1. Maria Nicolaou (2014-2015) 2. Marilena Stylianou (2014-2015) X. ACADEMIC COURSES TAUGHT University of Cyprus (2001-2017) Graduate Seminars ENG 721 Nation and Narrative ENG 719 Space and Cultural Production ENG 705 The Animal in Literature and Philosophy

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Undergraduate Courses ENG 218 Studies in Fiction I (sophomore level) ENG 219 Studies in Fiction II (sophomore level) FLL 221 The English Novel I (sophomore level) FLL 222 The English Novel II (sophomore level) ENG 213 Studies in Nineteenth-Century Fiction (sophomore level) ENG 215 Studies in Modernist and Postmodern Fiction (sophomore level) ENG 535 Seminar in American Studies I: Subjectivity and Subjection: (Un)Freedom and the Making of American Culture 1776-1865 (junior/senior seminar) ENG 512 Seminar in American Studies II: Visions of Empire in American Literature and Culture 1880-1914 (junior/senior seminar) ENG 533 English Literature and Culture at the Fin-de-Siècle (junior/senior seminar) ENG 504 Studies in Victorian Fiction (junior/senior seminar) University of California, Santa Cruz (2007) Visions of Empire Space and Cultural Production Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001) Graduate Seminars Seminar in the Theory and Methodology of Literary Studies (invited lecturer) D.E.I Arts, Sciences and Technology (Summer School 1998 and Academic Year 2000-2001) Foundation Level courses Introduction to Cultural Studies Introduction to Media Studies Introduction to Cinema Introduction to English Literature University of Minnesota (1994-1997) Undergraduate Courses Writing Practice (freshman level) Writing Practice: Negotiating the Public Sphere (freshman honors level) Writing in the Social Sciences (junior level) Introduction to American Literature (freshman and freshman honors level) Literature of American Minorities (freshman level) Introduction to Third World Literature (freshman level-recitation section instructor) XI. GRANTS AND AWARDS * National Fellowships Award (I.K.Y.) at the Aristotle University from 1987 to 1990.

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* Quarterly Tuition Fellowships from the English Department at the University of Minnesota from 1992 to 1993. * Three-year Block Grant Fellowship from the University of Minnesota English Department from 1993 to 1996 (one year of full Fellowship and two years of Teaching Assistantship). * Teaching Assistantship from the department of Composition and Rhetoric at the University of Minnesota from 1996 to 1997. * Full fellowship from the Salzburg American Studies Foundation to attend the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies March 10-17, 2001. Stipend from the Fulbright Foundation to cover travel expenses for the same event. * Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowship at Princeton University, December-January 2004-05. * Second place, Eugenio Battisti Award of the Society for Utopian Studies, 2015. * Nominated (nomination proposal by five graduate students) for first Teaching Quality Award, University of Cyprus, 2017. XII. OTHER DISTINCTIONS * Seminar Faculty, Dartmouth Seminar in American Studies, Dartmouth College, June 2007. XIII. MEMBERSHIP IN EDITORIAL BOARDS AND SERVICE AS INDEPENDENT REFEREE * Member of the Editorial Board, Mesogeios, University of Cyprus Press, 2005-2007. * Member of the Editorial Board, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities (Stanford University), 2009- (http://arcade.stanford.edu/journals/occasion/) * Member of the Editorial Board, Praxis Marxist Review, 2012-2013. * Member of the Editorial Board, Utopian Studies, Penn State University Press, 2014- * Member of the Editorial Board, Mediated Fictions: Studies in Verbal and Visual Narratives, Peter Lang, 2013- * Member of the Editorial Board, Ralahine Utopian Studies, Peter Lang, 2015- * Member of the Editorial Board, Palgrave Studies in Utopianism, 2016- * Referee, Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology (Johns Hopkins University Press). * Referee, Comparative Literature (Duke University Press). * Referee, Utopian Studies (Penn State University Press). * Referee, Ralahine Utopian Studies Book Series, Peter Lang. * Referee, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (Pion). * Referee, European Journal of English Studies (Routledge) * Awards Committee Member, Society for Utopian Studies USA, 2012-2015 XIV. MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS * Member of the Cyprus Society for the Study of English. Vice-president, 2004- 06. President, 2006-08.

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* Member of the Hellenic Association of American Studies. Board member, 2001- 2003. * Member of the International American Studies Association * Member of the Modern Language Association * Member of the Society for Utopian Studies (USA) * Member of the Utopian Studies Society (Europe). Committee member, 2009- * Member of the American Studies Association * National Fellowships Institution of Cyprus, (IKYK), Board Member (2010-) XV. REFEREES Timothy Brennan Professor Department of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature; and English University of Minnesota 350 Folwell Hall 9 Pleasant Street, S. E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Phone: +1-612-626-1638 Fax: +1-612-626-0228 (fax) E-mail: [email protected] Christopher L. Connery Professor Department of Literature University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA 95064-1077 Phone: +1-831-459-2761 E-mail: [email protected] Fredric R. Jameson William A. Lane Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Studies Literature Program Duke University 102 A Art Museum Buchanan Blvd at Trinity Ave. Durham, NC 27708-0672 USA Phone: +1-919-684-4155, +1-919-660-3100 E-mail: [email protected] Tom Moylan Emeritus Professor, School of Languages, Literature, Culture, and Communication Executive Director, Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies University of Limerick Mill Stream Building University of Limerick

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