Maria Koundoura

Maria Koundoura is the author of two books, The Greek Idea: The Formation of National and Transnational Identities and Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity: The Politics and Ethics of Global Culture Exchange, as well as many articles and book chapters on modernity, nationalisms, and globalization. Her next book project, for which she has received a Folger Shakespeare Library Summer Research Fellowship, is Desire Lines: Metaphors of the Global City. She has also received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the Alma Hansen Travel Fund, and the National Scholarship Foundation of Greece.

One of the founding editors of the Stanford Humanities Review, Koundoura was also editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies published by Johns Hopkins University Press (2010–2013). Her translations of the Greek poet Yiorgos Chouliaras have appeared in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, and Translation.

Koundoura is a Full Professor in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing, where she served as Chair for two terms. Her other academic leadership roles include Special Advisor to the Provost, Assistant Provost for Strategic Projects, Interim Dean of the School of the Arts, and Associate Provost for Academic Programs.

Koundoura holds a PhD in English literature from Stanford University as well as an MA and a BA (Honors) in English literature from the University of Melbourne.