Maria Oikonomou

Maria Oikonomou ( Greek Μαρία Οικονόμου [ ikɔˈnɔmu ], also Maria Oikonomou-Meurer ; * 1968 in Ioannina , Greece ) is a Greek neo-Graecist and university assistant at the University of Vienna .

Life

After studying philology at the University of Ioannina (1986-1990) and the study of general and comparative literature , Italian philology and theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (1992-1998), she with the Master of Arts graduated, started she did a doctoral degree at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in the subjects of general and comparative literature and neo-Greek studies , which she completed in 2004 with a doctorate .

In the meantime, she worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Byzantine Studies, Byzantine Art History and Neo-Greek Studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 2001 to 2007 and was involved in the organization and implementation of the distance-learning course "European Literature and Culture" from 2004 to 2009. University of Thessaloniki participated.

In the 2007/08 winter semester she was a visiting professor at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Vienna , and has been a university assistant there ever since. She is working on a habilitation project on the poetics of migration using the example of modern Greek literature .

Research priorities

Oikonomou works on modern Greek literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, migration research, the reception and theory of myths, intermediality and translatology .

Fonts (selection)

• No hero, no song. Re-readings of Homer's Odyssey in the 20th Century . Thessaloniki, 2004.
• (with Marie-Elisabeth Mitsou ): Reflections. Essays by modern Greek authors . Munich: Ars Una 2005 (Munich Modern Greek Writings, Vol. 1).
• (with Ulrich Meurer and Marie-Elisabeth Mitsou): Perseus' shield - Greek images of women in film . Munich: Ars Una 2008 (Münchener Schriften zur Neogräzistik, Vol. 4).
• (with Ulrich Meurer): External images. Emigration and exile in international cinema . Transcript, Bielefeld 2009.
• (with Maria Stassinopoulou , Ioannis Zelepos ): Greek Dimensions of Southeast European Culture since the 18th Century. Peter Lang, Vienna 2011.
• (with Ulrich Meurer): translation and film. The cinema as a translation medium. Transcript, Bielefeld 2012.
• Κουπιά και φτερά. Ο μύθος της Οδύσσειας στη λογοτεχνία και στον κινηματογράφο του μοντερνισμού. Nefeli, Athens 2016. ("Oars and wings. The myth of the Odyssey in literature and in the cinema of modernism")

Web links

• Employee at the Institute for Byzantine and Neo-Greek Studies (University of Vienna)
• Personal page (CV and list of publications)