Dr. M. (Maria) Boletsi
- Lecturer
- Literary Studies
| Telephone number: | +31 (0)71 527 2357 |
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| E-Mail: | m.boletsi@hum.leidenuniv.nl |
| Faculty / Department: | Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen, Institute for Cultural Disciplines, Literatuurwetenschap |
| Office Address: |
Witte Singel-complex van Wijkplaats 2 2311 BX Leiden Room number 1.03b |
Curriculum Vitae
Maria Boletsi
is lecturer at the Literary Studies Department of Leiden University. She received her PhD with honors from Leiden University (Barbarism, Otherwise, 2010). She holds cum laude degrees in Classics and Modern Greek Literature (BA, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), Comparative Literature (BA, University of Amsterdam) and Cultural Analysis (MA, University of Amsterdam), and has been a visiting scholar at Columbia University (2008-2009). She works in the fields of cultural analysis, postcolonial theory and literature, poststructuralism, and political theory.
Her current research interests include the relation of literature and art to the political, and especially new directions and transmutations in art and literature after September 11, 2001. She has published articles on C.P. Cavafy, J.M. Coetzee, Jamaica Kincaid, literary speech acts, barbarism, migratory aesthetics and cultural identity in the Balkans, in edited volumes and in journals such as Comparative Literature Studies, Arcadia and Thamyris/Intersecting. She is also co-editor of the volume Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2009), and was in the editorial team of The Big Prisma Modern Greek-Dutch/Dutch-Modern Greek Dictionary (Het Spectrum, 2008).
Publications
Articles/Book chapters
“A Place of her Own: Negotiating Boundaries in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and My Garden (Book).” In Migratory Settings. Edited by Murat Aydemir and Alex Rotas. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2008: 229-46.
“Barbarian Encounters: Rethinking Barbarism in C.P. Cavafy’s and J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians.” In Comparative Literature Studies. Vol. 44, No. 1-2, 2007: 67-96.
“How to Do Things With Poems: Performativity in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy.” In Arcadia: International Journal of Literary Studies. 41: 2, 2006: 396-418.
“Between Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva’s ‘Whose is this Song?’ ” In Boer, Inge. Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Cultural Analysis. Eds. Mieke Bal, Bregje van Eekelen and Patricia Spyer. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2006.
“Barbarism as a Mode of (not) Knowing.” In Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Edited by C. Birdsall, M. Boletsi, I. Sapir and P. Verstraete. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming in spring 2009).
“Introduction.” In Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Edited by C. Birdsall, M. Boletsi, I. Sapir and P. Verstraete. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming in spring 2009).
Books
Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Co-edited with C. Birdsall, I. Sapir and P. Verstraete. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (forthcoming spring 2009) Prisma Groot
Woordenboek Nieuwgrieks-Nederlands/Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks. Houten: Het Spectrum, 2008. (in the editorial team)
2011
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Boletsi, M. (2011)
Martin McKinsey. Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination. Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott. [Bespreking van: Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination. Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott.]. In: Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 29, pp. 296-298.
(Book review) -
Boletsi, M. (2011)
Second Personhood as Political Art. In: Murat Aydemir, & Esther Peeren, (Eds.), Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983-2011, pp. 190-198. Amsterdam: ASCA Press.
(Part of book or chapter of book)
2010
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Boletsi, M. (2010)
Barbarism, otherwise. Studies in literature, art, and theory. LEI Universiteit Leiden, 356pp. E.J. van Alphen & M.G. Bal.
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Boletsi, M. (2010)
Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar. In Davis, R G., Fischer-Hornung, D., Kardux, J K. (Eds.) Performing Migration: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media and Music (pp. 145-169). London and New York: Routledge.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2009
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Boletsi, M. (2009)
Barbarism as a Mode of (Not) Knowing. In Birdsall, C., Boletsi, M., Sapir, I., Verstraete, P. (Eds.) Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (pp. 57-75). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Boletsi, M. & Birdsall, C. & Sapir, I. & Verstraete, P. (Eds.) (2009)
Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(Book editorial) -
Boletsi, M. (2009)
Introduction. In Birdsall, C., Boletsi, M., Sapir, I., Verstraete, P. (Eds.) Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities (pp. 1-13). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings) -
Boletsi, M. (Ed.) (2009)
Prisma Groot Woordenboek Nieuwgrieks-Nederlands/Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks. Houten: Het Spectrum (lid van redactieteam).
(Book editorial) -
Boletsi, M. (2009)
The Travels of a Literary Topos: C. P. Cavafy’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ and its Visual Restagings. Cavafy ForumUniversity of Michigan, Department of Modern Greek.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2008
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Boletsi, M. (2008)
A Place of her Own: Negotiating Boundaries in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and My Garden (Book). In Aydemir, Murat & Rotas, Alex (Eds.) Migratory Settings (pp. 229-246). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
(Article in monograph or in proceedings)
2007
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Boletsi, M. (2007)
Barbarian Encounters: Rethinking Barbarism in C.P. Cavafy’s and J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians. Comparative Literature Studies, 44 (1-2), pp. 67-96.
(Article)
2006
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Boletsi, M. (2006)
Between Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva’s ‘Whose is this Song?’. In: Boer (author - posthumus publication), I.E., Bal, M., Eekelen, M., van, Spyer, P. (Eds.), Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Cultural Analysis (GENUS: Gender in Modern Culture), 7. , pp. 239-258. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
(Part of book or chapter of book) -
Boletsi, M. (2006)
How to Do Things With Poems: Performativity in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy. Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft, 41 (2), pp. 496-418.
(Article)