Writing, Literature & Publishing Faculty
Maria KoundouraAssociate Professor (1993) B.A., University of Melbourne; M.A., University of Melbourne; Ph.D., Stanford University Maria Koundoura is the author of The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities (London: IB Tauris 2007). Among her publications are articles and book chapters on nationalism, multiculturalism, and globalization, diasporic identities, the critical discourse on modernity, the intersections of Philhellenism and Orientalism, women's travel writing, translation, and the discourse on rights. Currently she is at work on her second book Desire Lines: Metaphors of the Global City. Dr. Koundoura was the recipient of a Whiting Foundation Fellowship at Stanford University and was one of the founding editors of the Stanford Humanities Review. She was the Project Director of the inaugural Antipodes Festival, an arts festival funded by the Ministry of Culture of Greece and the Victorian Ministry for the Arts, Australia. Her translations of the Greek poet Yiorgos Chouliaras have appeared in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Translation.
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