Dr Evy Varsamopoulou
University of Cyprus
Evy Varsamopoulou is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus. Evy has a BA in English and American Literature with Theoretical and Applied Linguistics from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece, an MA in the 19th and 20th Century Novel from the University of East Anglia, Norwich and a PhD from the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the University of Cardiff, Wales, UK. Her areas of research are the artist novel, or Künstlerroman; British and Continental Romanticism; the sublime and philosophical aesthetics; identity and community in literature, theory and philosophy from the 18th to the 20th century; theories of cosmopolitanism; the discourse of human nature in literature, film and philosophy; the relation between narrative art and theoretical writing; and, the role of literature and the arts in modernity. Evy’s revised doctoral thesis, The Poetics of the Künstlerinroman and the Aesthetics of the Sublime, was published by Ashgate (2002). Other recent publications include ‘The Three Movements of Human Life: Jan Pato?ka’s Philosophy of Personal Being’, The European Legacy, 12:5, July 2007, ‘The Justice of Judgment: A Philosophical Appreciation of Conflict within a Matricial Model of Identity’, Philosophical Inquiry, 29:3-4, 2007, ‘The Idea of Europe and the Ideal of Cosmopolitanism in the Work of Julia Kristeva’, Theory, Culture & Society, 26:1, January 2009. She is currently working on a series of papers on aspects of identity and community and preparing another book project on Romanticism, Art and Politics. While a Visiting Fellow at CRASSH, Evy will be working on a study of the role of the university in the formation of European civil society through a critical investigation of former crises in the development of European universities.
