Summary
Anna Despotopoulou joined the Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens, in 2002 and is now tenured Assistant Professor of English Literature and Culture. She has also taught at Boston University (1998-2000). She holds degrees in English Studies from the University of Athens (BA, 1991), the University of Oxford (M.Phil., 1993), and the University of Reading (Ph.D., 1998). Her research interests lie in Victorian, Modernist, and contemporary fiction, Henry James, and feminist theory. Publications: Edited Volumes: Henry James and the Supernatural (with Kimberly Reed; Palgrave, 2011) with introduction; Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (with Chryssoula Lascaratou and Elly Ifantidou; Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008) with introduction. Edited Special Issue of Journal: “Experiments in/of Realism.” Special issue of the academic e-journal Synthesis 3 (2011)(with Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou) with introduction. Articles in edited volumes and academic journals: “Trains of Thought: the Challenges of Mobility in the Work of Rhoda Broughton,” Critical Survey, special issue entitled “Other Sensations” (2010); “‘Mysterious Tenants’: Uncanny Women and the Private/Public Dilemma in the Supernatural Tales” in Henry James and the Supernatural (Palgrave, 2011); “Gender Transfusions in George Eliot’s ‘The Lifted Veil,’” George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies (2010); “Nowhere or Somewhere? (Dis)locating Gender and Class Boundaries in Christina Rossetti’s Speaking Likenesses,” The Review of English Studies (2010); “‘What woman was ever safe?’ Dangerous Constructions of Womanhood in The Ambassadors” in A Companion to Henry James (ed. Greg Zacharias; Blackwell, 2008); “‘The abuse of visibility’”: Domestic Publicity in Late Victorian Fiction” in Inside Out: Women Negotiating, Subverting, Appropriating Public and Private Space (ed. Teresa Gomez; Rodopi, 2008); “Girls on Film: Postmodern Renderings of Austen and James,” Yearbook of English Studies (2006); “‘La Maladie Fin de Siècle’: The Symbols of Aestheticism and the Aesthetics of Symbolism,” Δια-Kείμενα/Dia-Keimena (2006); “What the Freshman Knew: Jamesian Ambiguity in the International Composition Classroom” in Approaches to Teaching Daisy Miller and The Turn of the Screw (ed. Kimberly Reed and Peter Beidler; MLA, 2005); “From Dionysus to Gorgon: Peter Shaffer’s Revision of Classical Myth and Theory,” Classical and Modern Literature (2005); “The Monster and the Atom: Representation of London in James and Conrad,” The Cambridge Quarterly (2005); “Fanny’s Gaze and the Construction of Feminine Space in Mansfield Park,” Modern Language Review (2004); “Penetrating the Vitrine: Henry James and the Challenge of Publicity,” English Language Notes (2002); “The Price of ‘Mere Spectatorship’: Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove,” The Review of English Studies (2002); “Invisible Buildings: Maggie’s Architectural Adventures in The Golden Bowl,” Papers on Language and Literature (2000); “James’s The Sense of the Past,” The Explicator (2000).   Interview “Investing in Realism: An interview with Bruce Robbins,” e-journal Synthesis 3 (2011).