Maria Hadjipolycarpou

Biographical Sketch: Maria Hadjipolycarpou is Lecturer in Modern Greek Language, Literature, and Culture. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Michigan where she wrote her dissertation entitled, "Poetics of Self in Postcolonial Autobiography: Intersubjective Histories in the Mediterranean and the Caribbean." Before coming to Illinois she taught at Columbia University (2014 - 2017) and at The City University of New York, Queens College (2017- 2019). Primary areas of interest include literature in the Eastern Mediterranean and the relationship of autobiography, politics, and historiography; poetry; orality; multilingualism; religion, modernity, and the state; gender, and sexuality in postcolonial literature; Cypriot literature and culture; global studies; island studies. She was a 2013-2014 James A. Winn Graduate Student Fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. She was a 2016-2017 Visiting Fellow at the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. “In my free time I enjoy writing poetry, going camping, and whenever possible, I love to swim and spend time with friends and family. A rule that I try to live by as much as possible which is also Norman Rockwell's Golden Rule (1961) in his painting housed in the United Nations in New York. "Do unto others as you would have do unto you."