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 Maria Oikonomou at academia.edu
ACADEMIC CAREER / EMPLOYMENT
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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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| 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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| 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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| 07/2011
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Leading coordinator of the summer school “Translation in Literature and Culture” at the Inter-national Writers and Translators’ Center, Rhodes, Greece
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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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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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