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 Maria Oikonomou at academia.edu
ACADEMIC CAREER / EMPLOYMENT
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Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Department of German Studies, Aristotle University Thessaloniki
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| 03/2016-07/2019
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Elise Richter Senior Postdoc Position [Elise-Richter-Stelleninhaberin], funded by the Austrian Science Fund, FWF, at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
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| 2013-2015
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Teaching assignment (Adjunct Professor) at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
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| 2008-2012
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Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Greek Studies, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
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| 2007-2008
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Visiting Professor, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna
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| 2004-2007 |
Lecturer, Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Munich
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| 2001-2004 |
Assistant in third-party funded research projects at the University of Munich (conception and organization of interdisciplinary lecture series on literature and film) |
| 1998-2000 |
Scientific Assistant at the Career Center, University of Ioannina, GR
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| 1995-1998 |
Teaching assignment in the European Program for Migration and Culture, ‘Euro-Trainings-Center’ (ETC) Munich |
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FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
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| September 2018
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2nd Prize ("special mention") from the Jury of the Society for Media Studies GfM's annual Karsten-Witte-Award for best article
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| June 2018
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Library Research Fellowship, California State University (Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection), Sacramento, USA
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| fall 2017
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Fellow of the ‘Austrian Academy of Sciences’, Program for Advanced Research
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| November 2015
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Fellow at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), Berlin
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| 2014-2015
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Princeton University Library Research Grant
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| 2011
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Research Fellow at the Stanley J. Seeger Center, Princeton University
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| 2010-2011
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Mentee in the Mentoring Program for Women Academics and Scientists at the University of Vienna
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| 2005
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Translation Award of the Greek National Book Center (EKEVI) and the Goethe Institute Athens for the book Reflexionen. Essays neugriechischer Autoren [Reflections. Essays by Modern Greek Authors—cf. list of publications]
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| summer 1999
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Fulbright Visiting Fellowship at the Emerson College, Boston, and the American University, Washington, D.C.
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EXTRACURRICULAR & RESEARCH ACTIVITIES
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| 2022
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Co-organizer of the conference & exhibition We : Refugees - Constellations 1933 2022, Aristotle University & Goethe-Institute Thessaloniki, May 2022.
Watch the video of the Exhibition
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| since 2021
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Vice Head of the Department of German Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
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| 2017-2018
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Co-organizer & member of the scientific committee of the 3rd International Conference on Greek Film Cultures "Strategies of the Documentary" (a cooperation of the University of Vienna and the Blickle Cinema, Belvedere 21 / Museum of Contemporary Art)
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| since 2016
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Proposal Reviewer for the conferences of ‘Council for European Studies’ at Columbia University
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| 2014/2016
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Research visits at the Firestone Library Archives and Special Collections, Princeton University, USA
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| since 2013
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Scientific Advisory Board of the online journal eisodos—Zeitschrift für Antike Literatur und Theorie [Journal for Ancient Literature and Theory] <www.eisodos.org>
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| 2014
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Scientific advisor and member of the curatorial board of the art exhibition “329—The Crisis in Greece,” (WUK, Vienna, March 2014)
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| 2011
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Leader of the summer school „Translation as Intermedia Operation“ at the International Writers and Translators’ Center of Rhodes, Greece
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| 2009
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Organization and Funding of the International Conference Greek Dimensions of South-Eastern European Culture since the 18th Century, University of Vienna
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| 2008-2009
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Participation in the research program “Literature in Context” of the Department of European and Comparative Literature and Language Studies, University of Vienna
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| 2004-2009
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Coordinator of the Distance Learning MA Program “European Literature and Culture,” Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
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| 2006-2007
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Participation in the research program “Theory and History of Autobiography” at the Department of Modern Greek Literature, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki
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| 2004-2007
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Organization and funding of lecture series on literature and film at the University of Munich
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| 2003–2005
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Participant in annual lecture series on film, Department of German Studies, University of Tübingen, Germany
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EDUCATION
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| 1999-2004
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Doctoral Studies (PhD) at the University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Comparative Literature and Modern Greek Studies
Dissertation: No Hero, No Song: Rewriting the Odyssey in the 20th Century
Conferral of degree: summa cum laude / with highest distinction
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| 1992-1998
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Graduate studies, University of Munich
Comparative Literature / Theater Studies / Italian Literary Studies
Conferral of degree: Magister Artium (M.A.)
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| 1986-1990
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Undergraduate studies, University of Ioannina, GR
Medieval and Modern Greek Studies
Conferral of degree: Dipl. Phil.
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MEMBERSHIPS
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft DGAVL
(German Association for Comparative Literature)
Association for Cultural Studies (ACS)
European Society of Modern Greek Studies
Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA)
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