Dr. Katerina Stergiopoulou

Biography

Katerina Stergiopoulou is a lecturer at the University of Edinburgh in the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology. She completed her PhD in Comparative Literature at Princeton University and holds an MA in Humanities & Social Thought from New York University, as well as a BA in Literature and Psychology from Yale University. Her teaching encompasses undergraduate courses in Modern Greek language and graduate courses exploring the works of Sappho and Virginia Woolf. Katerina's research interests focus on Classical Receptions, Modern Greek Literature, Culture, and Translation Theory and Practice, particularly in relation to twentieth-century Anglo-American and European poetry. Her upcoming book, 'Modernist Hellenism: Pound, Eliot, H.D., Translation Greece,' traces the intersections of modernism and Hellenism across the development of Anglo-American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century. Additionally, she is undertaking a project tentatively titled 'Textures Greek: Cavafy, Quotation, Translation,' which examines C.P. Cavafy’s use of intralingual citation. Katerina is also involved in co-editing a volume on the reception of Sappho in relation to American women poets of the mid-twentieth century.

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