MARIA VARA / Special Teaching Staff
Maria Vara is Special Teaching Staff at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts. She holds an MA from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and a PhD ̶ funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation ̶ from the School of English, Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece). She has been secretary of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE, www.enl.auth.gr/hase/), 2014-2020. Her publications include chapters in The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (Continuum, 2007), Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Le Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Rewriting/Reprising: Plural Intertextualities (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (Peter Lang, 2013), The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Liminal Dickens (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her most recent publication (2022) is ‘OMG JANE AUSTEN’: Austen and Memes in the Post-#MeToo Era (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/5/112).
Email : mvara@asfa.gr
“Amongst the Ruins of a European Gothic Phantasmagoria in Athens.” Ruins in the Anglo-American Literary and Cultural Imagination. Eds. Efterpi Mitsi et al. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 23-46.
“Plundering the Fairy Tale and the Gothic in Patricia Highsmith’s Little Tales of Misogyny.” Rewriting/Reprising: Plural Intertextualities. Ed. Georges Letissier. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. 74-87.
“Gothic Permutations from the 1790s to the 1970s.” Le Gothic. Ed. Avril Horner and Sue Zlosnik. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 100-115.
“The Revenge of the Stereotype: Rewriting the History of the Gothic Heroine in Alice Thompson’s Justine.” Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing. Ed. Ann Heilmann. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 172-181