Curriculum Vitae

Ourania Polycandrioti

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Ourania Polycandrioti was born in Athens, in 1962. She graduated from the Department of French and Greek Literature (Faculty of Philosophy) at the University of Athens in 1984. In 1990 she defended her Ph.D. thesis on General and Comparative Literature, at the University Paris III - La Sorbonne Nouvelle. Since 1990 she has been working at the Institute for Neohellenic Research / NHRF, initially as a Guest Research Associate and then as Functional Scientific Personnel, 3rd grade (1998). In 2002 she was elected Research Associate and then Senior Research Associate in 2007. Currently, she works at the INR Section ''History of Culture and Sciences'', on the project entitled ''Genres of Greek Literature, 15th-20th c.'' Her main research interests include modern Greek and comparative literature, the genres of personal discourse (memoirs, autobiographies) in Greece and France and their evolution since the 18th century. She is also interested in the perception and representation of the Mediterranean area, in memory, literature and cultural identity building. Along with Paschalis M. Kitromilides and Anna Tabaki, Polycandrioti has organized the INR seminar: ''Comparative Literature and History of Ideas''. She teaches post graduate courses at the Department of French Language and Literature of the University of Athens as well as subjects of Modern Greek Literature (19th-20th centuries) at the Hellenic Open University. She is member of the Executive Committee of the Greek General and Comparative Literature Association (President, 2009-2012), member of several Greek and International academic associations and also member of the editorial committee of the INR/NHRF Newsletter Bulletin.