PhD dissertation title: "Academic discourse and Greek women's literature: women scientists of humanities (and social sciences) write literature"
Supervisor: Professor Elisavet Arseniou
Maria Skentou was born in Thessaloniki and lives in Athens. In 2015 she completed her studies at the Department of Greek Philology (Direction of Medieval and Modern Greek Literature) in the Faculty of Philosophy of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with grade "Very Good" (7,24/10). Subsequently (2015-2016), she received her master's degree (M. Sc) in "Comparative Literature: Literary and Cultural Studies", at the Department of Spanish Literature of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, with grade "Excellent" (8,62/10). Her postgraduate diploma thesis was titled "The perception of Marquis de Sade's work". On April 2018, she participated in the IV International Conference, "Los Textos del Cuerpo": «Autorías Encarnadas: Representaciones intermediáticas y sexuadas de la creación cultural» (organization: Universidad Iberoamericana, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona), with an announcement entitled "Transgender/queer poetry: a phenomenological approach".
Since March 2021, she has been conducting her PhD research at the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture at Panteion, on the theme "Academic discourse and Greek women's literature: women scientists of humanities (and social sciences) write literature". Her main research interests focus on the Literary Theory of the 20th and 21th century, on the cultural history in the field of Cultural Studies and on questions of individual and collective identity (from the perspective of Critical Analysis of Discourse, phenomenology and Feminist Studies).
Professionally, she has worked in the private secondary education, she has taught –voluntarily as well– Modern Greek as a foreign language in Thessaloniki and in Barcelona, she has worked as a translator (from Spanish to Greek) and a copywriter and, finally, she has worked as a flamenco teacher and professional dancer in Barcelona.
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