MICRO-BIO

• Evy Varsamopoulou holds a BA in English and American Literature with Linguistics from Aristotle University in Greece, an MA from the University of East Anglia in the UK and a PhD from Cardiff University, UK. She has taught comparative literature, ph...More

  Evy Varsamopoulou holds a BA in English and American Literature with Linguistics from Aristotle University in Greece, an MA from the University of East Anglia in the UK and a PhD from Cardiff University, UK. She has taught comparative literature, philosophy and film at Anglia Ruskin University and the University of Cyprus, where she is currently Associate Professor in the Department of English Studies. Her areas of specialisation are Comparative Studies in the Humanities (especially film, literature and philosophy), Romanticism and Aesthetics. Focal interests include identity and community, institutions of learning, the role of the writer/artist and ecocriticism. Her publications include a monograph, The Poetics of the Künstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime (Ashgate, 2002; Routledge, 2017), articles and chapters in books. Recent publications: 'To Live: Exploring the Meshwork of Being in Aristotle, Agamben, Walcott, Hughes and Coetzee', ISLE, 21:2, 2014, 'In Search of the Social: Rethinking Toleration, Remembering Hospitality', in Cogent Humanities, 2: 1, 2015, '"Et in Arcadia Ego": Philosophical Aesthetics and the Origins of European Romanticism in Shaftersbury's Characteristics and Rousseau's Reveries', in Steve Clark and Tristanne Connolly, eds, British Romanticism in European Perspective: Into the Eurozone (Palgrave, 2015), 'Entering the Labyrinth of Ethics in Guillermo del Toro's El laberinto del fauno', in Casie Hermansson and Janet Zepernick, eds, The Palgrave Handbook of Children's Film and Television (2019).

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EXPERIENCE

• The University of Cyprus

  • Associate Professor
  • English Studies
  • Present

EDUCATION

• Cardiff University

  • PhD

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