Dr Effie Botonaki

botonaki@enl.auth.gr

 

Teaching
2018-2020 Assistant Professor, Department of English Literature, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Undergraduate Courses taught:

  • Survey of English Literature I
  • Autobiographical Writings
  • Shakespeare
  • Introduction to the Research Paper

Postgraduate Course taught:

  • English Literature in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: Love, Politics and the Self
2016-2017 Member of the Adjunct Teaching Staff, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University. Master of Arts in in Creative Writing.

Course taught: Movements in European Literature (18th-20th Centuries).

2001-2015 Member of the Adjunct Teaching Staff, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University. Studies in European Literature (Undergraduate Programme)

Course taught: Introduction to the European Literature

1998-2010 Lecturer or Research Associate for 14 fifteen semesters (a total of 7 years), Department of English, Aristotle University. Teaching of undergraduate and graduate courses, supervision of research papers, student consultation, organization of conferences, development of new courses/new course material.

Undergraduate Courses taught:

  • Renaissance Literature
  • Restoration and the Eighteenth-Century
  • Literature and the English Civil War
  • Introduction to the Research Paper
  • Introduction to Fiction

Postgraduate Course taught:

  • European Literature
2005-2017 English Language Teacher, School of Engineers, Maritime Academy of Macedonia, Greece.
1997-2000 English Language Teacher, Technological Institute of Thessaloniki.
1994-1995 Teaching Assistant, School of English, Aristotle University.
Course taught: Introduction to the Research Paper
1992-1998 English Language Teacher, private lessons
1992-1994 English Language Teacher, Private Language School.
1990-1991 English Language Teacher, private lessons.
1987-1990 English Language Teacher, Private Language School.
Education
1993-1998 PhD (with Honours), Department of English, Aristotle University, Greece.
Thesis Title: Disclosing Enclosures: Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Autobiographical Writings.
1991-1992 MA in Critical and Cultural Theory, University of Wales, Cardiff.
Dissertation Title: Female Images in Aphra Behn’s Plays.
1987-1991 BA in English, School of English, Aristotle University.
Scholarships
2009 Research Award of Excellence, Aristotle University.
1993-1998 Doctoral Scholarship, Department of English, Aristotle University.
April 1998 British Council Scholarship for the attendance of the Interfaces: Language, Literature, Culture conference in Oxford.
March-July 95 Erasmus “free mover” scholarship in support of my doctoral research in British libraries.
Publications
I. Books

Seventeenth-Century English Women’s Autobiographical Writings: Disclosing Enclosures. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004.

II. Book Sections (peer-reviewed)

“Early Modern Diaries.” Bloomsbury History: Theory and Method. Section: Engaging with Sources. Ed. Tracey Loughran. Online resource. London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming. (By invitation)

“The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer.” Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature: Gesture, Word and Devotion. Ed. Joseph Sterrett. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 126-40. (By invitation)

“Teaching and Contesting Royal Obedience: The Case of the Stuart Court Masques.” Drama and Pedagogy. Eds Elizabeth Dutton and James McBain. Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature Series. Tubingen: Gunter Narr Verlang, 2015. 253-73.

“Queen Anne of Denmark and the Jacobean Court Masque: Patronage and Co-Authorship.” The Emblematic Queen: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture. Ed. D. Barrett-Graves. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013. 133-54.

“Elizabeth’s Masked Presence in the Jacobean Masque.” Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture. Eds. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011. 140-57. (By invitation)

“Dissecting Bodies and Selves in the Early Modern Period.” The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body. Eds. Z. D. Diamanti, K. K. Mitakou and Effie Yiannopoulou. New York: Peter Lang, 2007. 75-85.

“The Self and the World in Early Modern English Autobiographical Writings: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Texts.” Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction. SEL & C: Salzburg Studies in English Literature and Culture. Vol.3. Eds. Sabine Coelsch-Foisner and Wolfgang Gortschacher. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2006. 49-56.

“Early Modern Women’s Diaries and Closets: `chambers of choice mercies and beloved retirement.’” Recording and Reordering: Essays on the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Diary and Journal. Eds. Dan Doll and Jessica Munns. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2006. 43-64.

“Monarchy, Religious Reform and Politics.” Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Ourselves. Tina Krontiris. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002. 125-44. In Greek

“Social Discriminations, Upheaval, and Discoveries.” Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Ourselves. Tina Krontiris. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002. 153-66. In Greek

“Contemporary Interpretative Approaches.” Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Ourselves. Tina Krontiris. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002. 221-30. In Greek

III. Articles in Journals (peer-reviewed)

“The Audience of the Jacobean Masque, with a Reference to The Tempest.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 15 (2007): 67-86. “Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Spiritual Diaries: Self-Examination, Covenanting and Account Keeping.” The Sixteenth Century Journal 30:1 (Spring 1999): 3-21.

“Marching on the Catwalk and Marketing the Self: Margaret Cavendish’s Áutobiography.” a/b: Auto/biography Studies 13:2 (Winter 1998): 159-81.

 IV. Articles in Conference Proceedings (peer-reviewed)

“The Other Within Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Spiritual Diaries.” The Other Within. Vol. I: Literature and Culture. Selected Papers from the Third International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English. Eds. Ruth Parkin-Gounelas and Effie Yiannopoulou. Thessaloniki: Athanasios A. Altintzis, 2001. 115-23.

Conference Papers

“The Experience of Sickness in Early Modern English Diaries.” The 67th Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America (Online), 13-15 April, and 20-22 April, 2021.

“The lamentations for the death of Henry, Prince of Wales: Grieving the loss of an heir or the reign of a King?” South Central Renaissance Conference: Exploring the Renaissance 2021: An International Conference (Online), 25-27 March, 2021.

“Tracing the roots of autobiography in other forms of early modern life-writing.” International Online Workshop: Autobiography Before Autobiography (1400-1700). Freie Universität Berlin and Columbia University, Online, 13-14 November, 2020.

“The Masques of Charles I and Henrietta Maria: Re-Visioning Patriarchal Rule.” Othello’s Island: The 7th International Conference on Medieval and Early Modern Studies. University of Cyprus, Nicosia, April 15-17, 2019.

“Private Religious Writings as Prayer Books and Accessories to Devotion.” The Material Culture of Religious Change and Continuity 1400-1600. University of Huddersfield,  11-12 April, 2017.

“Silence and Speech in the Stuart Court Masques.” Modes of Silence in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American World. Universite Paris Diderot—Paris 7, 15-16 January, 2016.

“Teaching and Contesting Royal Obedience: The case of the Stuart Court Masques.” Drama and Pedagogy. Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. University of Fribourg, Switzerland, 12-13 September, 2014.

“The Protestant Diary and the Act of Prayer.” Prayer and Performance. Aarhus University. Denmark, 23th-24th April, 2012.

“The Stuart Court Masques: Royal Self-Display and Self-Enclosure.” Faces, Facades and Frostispieces: Public and Private Selves in Early Modern Culture. 22nd SEDERI Conference. Universaidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia. Madrid, 23-25 Ìarch, 2011.

“Samuel Daniel, Ben Jonson and Queen Anne of Denmark: Patronage and Co-Authorship in the Jacobean Court Masques.” Medieval and Early Modern Authorship. Swiss Association of Medieval and Early Modern English Studies. University of Geneva, 30 June-2 July, 2010.

Liotsios, C., E. Botonaki and S. Demetriadis. “A Blended learning Model in Maritime Academy. 5th International Conference in Open and Distance Learning. Hellenic Open University, Athens, 27-29 November, 2009.

“Elizabeth’s Masked Presence in the Jacobean Masques.” Role and Rule: History and Power on Stage. The University of Padua and Globe Education. Globe Theatre, London, 6-8 February, 2009.

“The Royal Self and its Subjects in the Stuart Masques.” The Individual and the Mass. Seventh International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 30th May-1st June, 2008.

“The Self and the World in Early Modern English Autobiographical Writings: A Comparative Study of Male and Female Texts.” Fiction and Autobiography: Modes and Models of Interaction. University of Salzburg, Department of English. 28-31 October, 2004.

“Dissecting Bodies and Selves in the Early Modern Period.” The Flesh Made Text: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post Millenial Era. School of English, Aristotle University, 15-18 May, 2003.

“Autobiographies, Tombs, and Funeral Sermons: Sepulchres `to preserve the fame from violation’.” Early Modern Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the Renaissance and Seventeenth Century. The Renaissance Research Group, Middlesex University, London, 27th-28th June, 2002.

“The Other Within Seventeenth-Century Englishwomen’s Spiritual Diaries.” The Other Within. Third International Conference of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English. School of English, Aristotle University, May 1998.

Public Lectures

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Membership in Societies
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