Ekaterini Douka-Kabitoglou

Professor of English and Comparative Literature

I. EDUCATION/DEGREES

1964	BA Honours in English Language and Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
1965	Postgraduate Diploma in English Studies, University of Leeds, UK
1987	PhD in English Literature, University of Reading, UK

II. POSITIONS HELD

1970-1988	Instructor in English Literature, Department of English, AUTH
1988-1991	Lecturer in English Literature, Department of English, AUTH
1991-1995	Assistant professor in English and Comparative Literature, Department of English, AUTH
1995-	Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Department of English, AUTH

III. TEACHING

Undergraduate Courses

• Introduction to Poetry
• Modernism: Yeats and Eliot
• Romanticism: Theory and Poetics
• Romanticism: Poetic Texts
• Sappho's Daughters: Poetry, Language, Desire

Postgraduate Courses

• English Bards, Continental Philosophers, and American Reviewers: Romantic Poetryand
• Poetics in the Light (or Darkness) of Hermeneutics/Deconstruction
• Member of committees supervising PhD dissertations.

IV. ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

• Member of various committees.
• Organizer of the fortnightly seminar of the Departments of English/American Literature.
• General topic: Problematics of Literature and Theory (1987-95)
• Representative for the Department of English in the Committee for European Educational
• Programmes of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1988-89, 1991-94).
• Head of the Department of English Literature (1995-96)
• Chair of the School of English Language and Literature (1996-)

V. EUROPEAN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES ERASMUS

• As coordinator ICP G-1058/09 (1994)
• As partner ICP-UK-93-1042/09
• ICP-D-93-1220/17
• As partnerICP-NL-93-1235/17
• for the English Department ICP-1020/14 N.O.I.S.E. (1994-)
• Co-editor of the Departmental information booklet on the programmes ERASMUS, LINGUA, TEMPUS, entitled: Educational Initiatives of the European Community at the School of English, Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

VI. PUBLICATIONS

Books authored

• Δύο Aναφορές στο Σαίξπηρ [Two Essays on Shakespeare]. Θεσσαλονίκη: Εκδόσεις Kωνσταντινίδη, 1977.
• H Παρουσία του Σαίξπηρ στον Eλληνικό Xώρο: Mια Aπόπειρα Bιβλιογραφίας [The Presence of Shakespeare in the Greek Context: A Bibliographical Attempt]. Θεσσαλονίκη, 1981.
• Plato and the English Romantics: διάλογοι. London and New York: Routledge, 1990.

Books and Journals edited

• Logomachia: Forms of Opposition in English Language/Literature. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Association for the Study of English, 1994: forthcoming.
• Γράμμα/Gramma: Περιοδικό Θεωρίας και Kριτικής/ Journal of Theory and Literature. O Eρωτισμός στη Γυναικεία Ποίηση/ The Erotic in Women's Poetry 4 (1996).

Contributions to Collections of essays and Conference proceedings

• "Bacon, the British Plato: A Romantic Reappraisal". Working Papers in Linguistics and Literature. Ed. A. Kakouriotis and R. Parkin-Gounelas. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 1989: 135-63.
• "The Gender of Transcendence in Shelley's Poetry". Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1992. Salzburg Studies in English Literature: Romantic Reassessment 112. Ed. James Hogg. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1993: 41-57.
• Σχόλιο (i) στην εισήγηση της Catherine Belsey" [Commentary on Catherine Belsey’s paper]. Γυναίκες/Λογοτεχνία/Θεωρία: Eργασίες Συμποσίου [Women/Literature/Theory: Proceedings of the Symposium], επιμ. Tίνα Kροντήρη. Θεσσαλονίκη: Aριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, 1994. 17-21.
• "O Λόγος του Ποιητή: Παρέμβαση στην Eισήγηση του Γιώργου Xειμωνά" [The Logos of the Poet: Commentary on the Paper of Giorgos Heimonas]. Θεωρία της Ποίησης / Ποίηση της Θεωρίας. Πρακτικά Συμποσίου Θεωρία της Λογοτεχνίας στον Eυρωπαϊκό Xώρο [Theory of Poetry/Poetry of Theory. Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Literature in Europe], επιμ. Κάριν Mπόκλουντ-Λαγοπούλου. Θεσσαλονίκη: Παρατηρητής, 1995. 205-13.
• Προμηθεύς Δεσμώτης/Prometheus Unbound: O Σέλλεϋ ανάμεσα στον Aισχύλο και τον Πλάτωνα" [Prometheus Bound/Prometheus Unbound: Shelley between Aeschylus and Plato]. Πρακτικά A' Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Συγκριτικής Γραμματολογίας: Σχέσεις της Eλληνικής με τις Ξένες Λογοτεχνίες [Proceedings of the First International Conference on Comparative Literature: Relations between the Greek and Foreign Literatures]. Aθήνα: Eκδόσεις Δόμος, 1995. 429-47.
• "Kόρες της Σαπφώς: Ποίηση, Γλώσσα, Eπιθυμία" [Sappho's Daughters: Poetry,
• Language, Desire]. Oι Γυναικείες Σπουδές στην Eλλάδα και η Eυρωπαϊκή Eμπειρία [Women's Studies in Greece and the European Experience]. Θεσσαλονίκη: Παρατηρητής, 1996. 58-62.
• "The 'Name of Freedom': A Hermeneutic Reading of Hellas". Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World, ed. Stuart Curran and Betty Bennett. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 129-43.
• "The Pen and Sword: Felicia Hemans' Records of Man". News from Nowhera 2: Romantic Masculinities, ed. Tony Pinkley, Keith Hanley and Fred Botting. Keele: Keele University Press, 1997. 101-120.

Articles and Reviews

• "D. H. Lawrence: The Role of the Woman as a Gateway to Fulfilment". Eπετηρίδα της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Aριστοτελείου Πανεπιστημίου Θεσσαλονίκης [Yearbook of the School of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki]17 (1978): 55-88.
• "Συγκριτική Λογοτεχνία" [Comparative Literature]. Φιλόλογος [Thessaloniki] 5/25 (1981): 409-25.
• "Problematics of Gender in the Nuptials of The Prelude". The Wordsworth Circle [Department of English, Temple University]19/3 (1988): 128-35.
• "Φύση και Iστορία στην Ποίηση του Λόρδου Bύρωνα" [Nature and History in Lord Byron's Poetry]. Nέα Eστία [Athens]124/1473 (1988): 1692-99.
• "The Phenomenology of Ascent and Descent in Plato and Wordsworth". New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies [British Comparative Literature Association] 8 (Autumn 1989): 144-63.
• "Shelley's (Feminist) Discourse on the Female: The Revolt of Islam". AAA: Arbeiten aus Anglistik und Amerikanistik [Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen]15/2 (1990): 139-50.
• "The Sublime (and the Beautiful) in Wordsworth's Poetics: A Platonic Reading". Yearbook of English Studies [Faculty of Philosophy, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki] 2 (1990): 81-101.
• "The Silence of the Speaking: Dialogic Consciousness in Plato and the Romantics". New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies 9 (Summer 1990): 90-102
• "Shelley's Epipsychidion: The Poetics of Prostitution". Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate [Pacini editore, Pisa] 44/2 (1991): 131-47.
• "The Cambridge Platonists: A Reading from Coleridge". The Seventeenth Century [Centre for Seventeenth-century Studies, University of Durham, UK] 6/1 (1991): 11-31.
• "Shelley and Berkeley: The Platonic Connection". Σύγκριση/Comparaison [Societe Grecque de Littetature Generale et Comparee] 2 (1991): 20-40
• "Eros and Psyche: Keats's Transformational Poetics of the Soul".Yearbook of English Studies [Faculty of Philosophy, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki] 3 (1991-92): 123-32.
• "Forms in Wordsworth's Poetry". Yearbook of English Studies [Faculty of Philosophy, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki] 3 (1991-92): 133-71.
• "Phantom or Fact: Coleridge's 'Scientific' Account of the Imagination". REAL: Yearbook of Research in English Language and Literature [Gunter Narr Verlag, Tubingen] 8 (1991/92): 197-232.
• "Adapting Philosophy to Literature: The Case of John Keats". Studies in Philology [Department of English, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill] 89/1 (1992): 115-36.
• "Shelley's 'Necessity': Greek (Platonic) of British (Empiricist?)". Παρουσία [Φιλοσοφική Σχολή Πανεπιστημίου Aθηνών/ School of Philosophy, University of Athens] 8 (1992): 377-410.
• "Shelley's Dialogic Poetry: Julian and Maddalo". Orbis Litterarum [Department of English, University of Copenhagen] 47 (1992): 303-314.
• "Being and Time in Byron's Poetry". Work in Progress: A Journal of Comparative Critical Studies in Literature and the Arts [Department of English, University of Warwick] 2 (1992): 27-36.
• "The 'morphosis' of 'meta': Antique Poetics and Sexual Difference". New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies 13 (Autumn 1992): 10-28.
• Review of Fictions of Sappho, 1546-1937, by Joan DeJean (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1989). Rivista di Letterature Moderne e Comparate 45/3 (1992): 314-16.
• "On the Discrimination of Plato-nisms in Eighteenth-century England". Philosophical Inquiry: An International Quarterly [Aristotle University of Thessaloniki] 15/1-2 (Winter-Spring1993): 20-45.
• "The 'new way of ideas': Plato, Locke, and their Romantic Readers". Φιλοσοφία [Eπετηρίς του Kέντρου Eρεύνης της Eλληνικής Φιλοσοφίας της Aκαδημίας Aθηνών/Centre for Research on Greek Philosophy of the Academy of Athens] 23-24 (1993-94): 232-51.
• "The Rape of Europa: Phallocentrism of Labrocentrism?". New Comparison: A Journal of Comparative and General Literary Studies (Autumn 1993): 5-24.
• "Tο Bλέμμα του Aπόλλωνα: Φιλοσοφία και Ποίηση στο έργο του Tζων Kητς" [Apollo's Gaze: Philosophy and Poetry in John Keats' Work]. Θέματα Λογοτεχνίας [Athens] 2 (1996): 94-108.

Other

• "Συμπόσιο/θεωρία/λόγος/τέχνη/Eυρώπη: Thessaloniki Symposium on Theory of Literature". The European English Messenger [European Society for the Study of English] 1/2 (Spring 1992): 26-29.
• "Romanticism and its 'Other': An Overview/Oversight". The European English Messenger [European Society for the Study of English] 5/1 (Spring 1996): 21-24).

VI. CONFERENCES / SYMPOSIA

As chair of the Organizing Committee

• Hellenic Association for the Study of English, Inaugural Conference, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,1-4/4/1993. Topic: Logomachia: Forms of Opposition in English Language/Literature.
• Department of English Literature, AUTH, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 7-8/11/1996. Topic: Women / Poetry, in Britain and Greece.

As a member of the Organizing Committee

• Department of English Literature, AUTH, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki], 21-24/11/1991. Topic: Theory of Literature in Europe.

As convenor

• European Society for the Study of English, 2nd Biennial Conference, University of Bordeau, 4-8/9/1993. Convenor for the Section on Romanticism.
• European Society for the Study of English, 3rd Biennial Conference, University of Glasgow, 8-12/9/1995. Convenor for the Section on Romanticism.

With paper presentation or as commentator

• Centre for Research in Philosophy and Literature & Graduate School of Comparative Literary Theory, International Conference, University of Warwick, 8-11/7/1988. Topic: Beyond Translation (paper).
• British Comparative Literature Association & Dutch Comparative Literature Association, Workshop Conference, University of Amsterdam,15-16/12/1988. Topic: Literature and Adaptation (paper).
• British Comparative Literature Association, Vth Triennial Congress, University of Leicester, 3-6/7/1989. Topic: Literary Representations of the Self (paper).
• British Comparative Literature Association, Workshop Conference, University of Lancaster, 26-27/9/1991. Topic: Metamorphoses (paper).
• Department of English Literature, AUTH, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki], 21-24/11/1991. Topic: Theory of Literature in Europe (commentary)].
• Societe Grecque de Littetature Generale et Comparee, 1st International Conference, University of Athens, 28/11-1/12/1991. Topic: Relations between the Greek and Foreign Literatures: Influences, Analogies, Convergences, Specificities (paper).
• Department of English Literature, AUTH, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 14-15/5/1992. Topic: Women/Literature/Theory (commentary).
• Keats-Shelley Association of America, International Conference, New York Public Library, 20-23/5/1992. Topic: Shelley: Poet and Legislator of the World (paper).
• British Comparative Literature Association, VIth International Conference, University of Warwick, 13-16/7/1992. Topic: Across Europe (paper).
• Department of English and American Studies, International Conference, University of Salzburg, 30/9-2/10/1992. Topic: Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792-1992 (paper).
• Women’s Studies Group, AUTH, European Convention, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki], 4-6/11/1993. Topic: Women's Studies in Greece and the European Experience (collective paper).
• Englisches Seminar, Symposium, University of Cologne, 23-27/3/1995. Topic: Problems and Possibilities of Intercultural Understanding in European Scholarship (paper).
• The British Council, Tenth Oxford Conference on Literature Teaching Overseas: The Teaching of Poetry, University of Oxford, 2-8/4/1995 (paper).
• Department of English Studies, The British Council, and The Hellenic Byron Society, Bicentenary Event, University of Athens, 28/9/1995. Topic: Keats and Greece: A Bicentenary Celebration (paper).
• Department of English Literature, AUTH, International Symposium, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 7-8/11/1996. Topic: Women / Poetry, in Britain and Greece (paper).
• Hellenic Association of American Studies and Department of American Literature, AUTH, Third International Conference, Aristotle University Of Thessaloniki, 21-23/3/1997. Topic: Women, Creators of Culture (paper).
• Hellenic Semiotic Society, V National Congress, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 8-12/5/1997. Topic: Semiotics and Culture (paper).
• Keats-Shelley Association of America and Graduate School of the City University of New York, New York, 22-24/5/1997. Topic: Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley in her Times (paper).
• Department of English, AUTH, in collaboration with FIRT and the Organization for the Cultural Capital of Europe "Thessaloniki ’97", Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 18-22/9/1997. Topic: Millennium Responses: (Dis)Placing Classical Greek Theatre (paper).

As chair of session

• Loyola University of Chicago, International Conference, 21-24/9/1989. Topic: Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ontology, Poetics—Contemporary Perspectives.
• Greek Association for Semiotic Studies, IVth National Congress, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 9-12/10/1992.
• Hellenic Association of American Studies and Department of American Literature and Culture, International Confeence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 18-21/5/1995. Topic: Nationalism and Sexuality: Crises of Identity.

As guest

• Anglistentag: Verband deutscher Anglisten e. V., Annual Conference, University of Dusseldorf, 29/9-2/10/1991.
• Anglistentag: Verband deutscher Anglisten e. V., Annual Conference, University of Stuttgart, 27-30/9/1992.

As participant

• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, 28th Annual Meeting, Dusquesne University, Pittsburgh, 12-14/10/1989.
• British Association for Romantic Studies, Fourth International Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, 15-18/7/1995. Topic: Placing and Displacing Romanticism.
• Birkbeck College Department of English and Centre for English Studies, School of Advanced Study, International Conference, University of London, 20-22/7/1995. Θέμα: Rethinking Women's Poetry 1730-1930.

VIII. MEMBERSHIP IN THE FOLLOWING SOCIETIES

• British Association for Romantic Studies
• British Comparative Literature Association
• International Comparative Literature Association
• Keats-Shelley Association of America
• Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (USA)
• International Association for Philosophy and Literature (USA)
• Societe Grecque de Littetature Generale et Comparee (founding member)
• International Association for Greek Philosophy
• Greek Association for Semiotic Studies
• Hellenic Association of American Studies] (founding member)
• Hellenic Association for the Study of English] (founding member)
• European Society for the Study of English
• Unesco Centre for Women and Peace in the Balkan Countries
• Chair of the Executive Committee of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English, for the period 1/1/91-31/12/93.