Introduction: Configuring Cultural Amnesia

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Published: May 1, 2010
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12681/syn.16485
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cultural amnesia archive forgetting
Apostolos Lampropoulos
University of Cyprus
Vassiliki Markidou
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
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Author Biographies
Apostolos Lampropoulos, University of Cyprus

Apostolos Lampropoulos is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Cyprus. He has also taught at the University Paris X, the University of Patras and the Free University of Berlin. He has published the monograph Le Pari de la description (L’Harmattan, 2002) as well as thetranslation in Greek of A. Compagnon’s Le Démon de la théorie (Metaichmio, 2002) and J. Culler’s On Deconstruction (Metaichmio, 2006). He has co-edited the volume States of Theory (with Antonis Balasopoulos; Metaichmio, 2010) and is currently preparing the volumes AutoBioPhagies (with May Chehab; Peter Lang), and Textual Layering (with Maria Margaroni and Christos Hadjichristos; Lexington Books - Rowman & Littlefield). His research interests include literary and cultural theory, as well as body and film studies.

Vassiliki Markidou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Vassiliki Markidou is Lecturer of English Literature and Culture at the University of Athens, Greece. Her research interests are related to the study of 16th, 17th and 18th century British literature and culture as well as travel literature mainly from a socio-historical and feminist angle. Among herrecent publications are “Gender and Space in Tobias Smollett’s The Expedition of Humphry Clinker,”Critical Survey (2010); “‘And let the grove, if not the parlour, stand:’ Home, Memory, and Gender in Mary Leapor’s “Crumble-Hall,” Home Cultures (2009); “Travels off-centre: Lady Hester Stanhope in Greece” in Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel, ed. by Vassiliki Kolokotroni & Efterpi Mitsi (Rodopi, 2008). She is currently researching space and politics in early modern British literature.

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