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ALEXANDRA SAMUEL

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PROFESSOR
Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
Apostolides,
10, Kallipoleos Ave.& 1, Eressou str.

Undergraduate studies at the University of Athens (B.A. in French and Greek, 1984), graduate studies at the University of Sorbonne, Paris IV (M.A. in Modern Greek Literature, 1987) and University of Thessaloniki (Ph.D. in Modern Greek Literature, 1998). She has worked as Research Fellow at the Centre for the Greek Language and at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies.Research Interests• Comparative Literature, • Metrics, • Theory of Literary Genres, • Autobiography, • Modern Greek Poetry of 19th and 20th century, • Modernist Prose Fiction.

 

Books1. Alexandra Samuel, The Depth of the Mirror: Andre Gide and the Fictional Diary in Greece, Crete University Publications, 1998.2. Alexandra Samuel, Palamas and the Crisis of Verse, Nefeli, Athens 2007.3. Alexandra Samuel, Hidalgo of the Idea: Don Quixote's Wanderings in Modern Greek Literature, Polis, Athens 2007.Articles4. Panagiotis Soutsos, Leandros, Memories of a Parrot, Trishiliopihos, edited by Alexandra Samuel, Nefeli, Athens 1996.5. Alexandra Samuel, Aspects of the Environment Theory in Greek Criticism before Roidis, Nea Estia, vol. 150, n. 1739, November 2001, p, 709-721.6. Alexandra Samuel, Prose Fiction and antityrannical struggle in Athens (1840), Themata Logotexnias, n. 32, May-August 2006, p. 172-180. 7. Alexandra Samuel, Don Quijote en Grecia en la ombre de Nikos Kazantzakis, Don Quijote por tierras extranjeras. Estudios sobre la recepcion internacional de la novela cervantina, vol. 2, Hans Christian Hagedorn (Ed.), Ediciones de la Universidad de Casilla-La Mancha (to be published by the end of 2007).