Maria Spiridopoulou

Maria Spiridopoulou is Assistant Professor of French Literature at the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens (2017). She has taught at the University of Padua, the University of the Peloponnese, the University of Cyprus and the Open Greek University. She is invited researcher of DEA (Directeurs d’Études Associés) program stay in France of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme from 1 March 2023 to 7 April 2023.

She did her dissertation on Gisèle Prassinos at Ca’Foscari (University of Venice) and her thesis on “The typology of the nominal metaphor in French and Greek surrealist poetry its new identity and its figures of innovation” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has published translations from French and Italian into modern Greek (B. Constant, Balzac, Assia Djebar, Tomasi di Lampedusa, Calvino). She is special secretary of the Greek General and Comparative Association and member of the executive committee of ESCL (European Society Comparative Literature).

Project

Title :  Une écrivaine francophone d’origine grecque : Gisèle Prassinos (1920-2015)

Hosting institution : INALCO

Selective Bibliography

Histoire du théâtre européen de la Renaissance au 18me siècle, 2015, https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/2928 (co-author)

Théorie et histoire des genres littéraires de l’Antiquité au 20me siècle, 2015 https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/1989 (co-author)

"La conception du langage chez les Surréalistes : données et réflexions" Σύγκριση/Comparaison/Comparison, vol. 30, 2021, pp. 87-103. https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sygkrisi/article/view/26880

« Gisèle Prassinos: l'adolescente cruelle et les métissages de l’écriture et du corps », in Bruera Franca & Cathy Margaillan (ed.), Le Troisième sexe de l’avant-garde, Paris, Classiques Garnier, pp 163-176, 2017.

« La notion de l’écriture féminine et sa représentation littéraire dans Ombre sultane d’Assia Djebar », Francofoni, no 38, 2021, pp. 161-176.

(avec Vassiliki Lalagianni) Auteures de contes de fées en France aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, Bibliographie critique, Women in French Studies, Fall 2021, pp. 23-43.