School of English - AUTh

Maria Schoina

Associate Professor - Department of English Literature and Culture

Maria Schoina is Associate Professor of English Literature. She holds a BA, MA and Ph.D. from Aristotle University. She received scholaships and awards for her PhD and post-doc research (Greek State Scholarship Foundation, Research Committee of AUTh, Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ESSE) which she conducted in the UK and Italy. Her research interests focus on British Romantic literature and culture, Romantic Philhellenism, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations, the reception of classical texts in the Romantic period and of the Romantics in Greece, gothic literature, and the history of the book. She has presented several papers at international conferences and her essays have appeared in journals such as Romanticism, The Byron Journal, The Keats-Shelley Review, Notes & Queries, European Romantic Review, The Wordsworth Circle and in edited collections. She is the author of Romantic ‘Anglo-Italians': Configurations of Identity in Byron, the Shelleys, and the Pisan Circle (Ashgate 2009; Routledge, 2016; Routledge 2019 as a paperback) and co-editor of Byron and Translation (co-edited with Alexander Grammatikos, Liverpool UP, forthcoming 2024). She has also edited a volume of translation of Romantic poetry in Greek entitled Anthology of Romantic Poets (Ανθολογία Ρομαντικών Ποιητών) published by Kedros (Athens 2021). Schoina is Joint President of the International Association of Byron Societies (IABS). In support of her research on Mary Shelley and Greece she has received a Carr-Thomas-Ovenden Fellowship in English Literature at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, for 2024-25. For a detailed biographical note, please visit http://www.enl.auth.gr/staff/schoina.htm

TEACHING (ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-2024)