Ourania Polycandrioti

NATIONAL HELLENIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION
INSTITUTE OF HISTORICAL RESEARCH
Ourania Polycandrioti
Research Director
Section of Neohellenic Research
Phone: 210-7273586
Fax: 210-7246212
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://eie.academia.edu/OuraniaPolycandrioti
STUDIES
1984: Bachelor in French and Greek Literature (Faculty of Philosophy), University of
Athens.
1985: Master, General and Comparative Literature, University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris
III.
1990: PhD, General and Comparative Literature, University Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris
III.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
1991-1997: Research Collaborator, Institute of Neohellenic Research / National Hellenic
Research Foundation, programs: “Development of historical database” and
“Foreign travel literature on Southeast Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean,
15th-19th c.”
1998: Functional Researcher.
2002: Associate Researcher.
2007: Senior Researcher, section Cultural History, research program: “Literary History,
18th-20th c.”
2011: Supervisor of the research program: “Modern Greek Literature and History of
Ιdeas, 18th-20th. c.”, section Cultural History.
2015: Research Director.
Academic teaching
Post graduate courses: “Themes of the French literary creation, 18th c.”, Department
of French Language and Literature, University of Athens (2004-2011).
Graduate courses: “Modern Greek Literature, 18th-20th c.”, Studies on Greek Culture,
Hellenic Open University (2004-today).
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RESEARCH INTERESTS

History of modern Greek literature.

History of ideas and Cultural transfers.

Issues on the representations of the Mediterranean space in literature, memory
functions, cultural identity.

Intellectual and literary networks in the Mediterranean.

Theory and history of literary genres: the genres of personal discourse (memoirs,
autobiography, diary), children’s literature, popular literature.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES
Collaboration with research and academic institutions in Greece and abroad
(selection):

Project REMSH-1. Réseau Euro-méditerranéen des centres de recherche en
Sciences
Humaines
sur
l’aire
méditerranéenne
(Coordinator:
Maison
Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence - CNRS 2003-2005).

Project RAMSÈS2. Réseau Euro-méditerranéen des centres de recherche en
Sciences
Humaines
sur
l’aire
méditerranéenne
(Coordinator:
Maison
Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence – CNRS, 2005-2008).

Member of the international scientific committee of the project: Paris – Athènes,
1945-1975 (2012-2017). Coordinator: École Française d’Athènes (ÉFA).
Responsible, in collaboration with Lucile Farnoux, of the section on “French and
Greek
literary
relations,
1945-1975”
(ÉFA
and
IHR/NHRF,
2013-2014,
http://www.efa.gr/Recherche/Manif/rech_manif_athenes.htm).

Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Aix-Marseille University (IMéRA,
http://www.imera.fr/), 20 February 2014 – 19 July 2014.

President of the Administrative Committee, of the Greek General and Comparative
Literature Association (2009-2012, 2012-2015).

Member of the Scientific Committee of the magazine Rives méditerranéennes
(Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme, Aix-en-Provence).
Organization of scientific events (selection, 2005-):

Member of the Organization Committee, Workshop of the European network:
“Thematic Network of European Social Science Research Centres on the
Mediterranean Area (REMSH)”, Networks, Exchanges and Conflicts in the circum-
Mediterranean Area (Athens, NHRF, 26-28 May 2005). Co-organizers: Maison
Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme (Aix-en-Provence, France), University of
Nijmegen (Holland), Institute of Neohellenic Research / NHRF (Greece), University
of Thessaly (Greece).
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Organizer, in collaboration with Maryline Crivello (Maison Méditerranéenne des
Sciences de l’Homme – CNRS), International Workshop: Retours aux passés.

Trajectoires individuelles et expériences politiques, Work Package I.1 : Mémoires
en Méditerranée, entre histoire et politique, RAMSÈS 2: Réseau Euroméditerranéen des centres de recherche en Sciences Humaines sur l’aire
méditerranéenne (Athens, NHRF, 30-31 March 2007).
Member of the Organization Committee, Congress: Espace Méditerranéen : écriture
de l’exil, migrances et discours post-colonial, organized by the Department of
Political Science and International Relations – University of Peloponnese, in
collaboration with the Institute of Neohellenic Research / NHRF and the Estudio de
Literaturas Transnacionales Europeas ELITE / Université Autonome de Madrid
(Athens, NHRF, 5-6 November 2010).

President of the Organization Committee, Congress: Poetics of the Landscape,
organized by the Greek General and Comparative Literature Association and the
Institute of Neohellenic Research / NHRF (Athens, NHRF, 19-22 January 2012).

Organizer, Colloquium: Figures d’intellectuels en Méditerranée, IMéRA (Marseille, 2
June 2014).

Member of the Organization Committee, Colloquium: Grecity and alterity. Cultural
transfers and national character in the 19th century, organized by the IHR/NHRF
and the University of Athens (Athens, NHRF, 14-17 May 2015).

General Secretary of the Organization Committee, International Conference:
Shaping Networks from Antiquity to the Modern Era, organized by the Institute of
Historical Research / NHRF (Athens, NHRF, 11-13 December 2015).
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
Books – Books Editing

Takis Theodoropoulos, Rania Polycandrioti, La Méditerranée grecque, série: Les
Représentations de la Méditerranée, tome 6, Collection «Monde Méditerranéen»,
Maisonneuve et Larose, 2000, 56p.

(Ed.), Identité culturelle. Littérature, histoire, mémoire, Τετράδια Εργασίας
[Research Notebooks] 30, Institut de Recherches Néohelléniques, Fondation
Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Athènes 2006, 220 p. (« Introduction », p.
15-29).

Les échelles de la mémoire en Méditerranée, sous la direction de Maryline Crivello,
coordonné par Karine-Larissa Basset, Dimitri Nicolaïdis et Ourania Polycandrioti,
Actes Sud / MMSH, coll. : «Études méditerranéennes», 2010, 362 p.

Η διάπλαση των Ελλήνων. Αριστοτέλης Π. Κουρτίδης (1858-1928) [The
Molding the Greeks. Aristotle P. Kourtidis (1858-1928)], Institute of Neohellenic
Research / National Hellenic Research Foundation-123 (ISBN: 978-960-9538-05-3),
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Historical Archives of the Greek Youth / General Secretariat of the New Generation48 (ISBN: 978-960-7138-43-9), Athens 2011, 430 p.

Figures d’intellectuels
méditerranéennes, 50 (2015).
(Ed.),
en
Méditerranée,
18e-20e
siècles,
Rives
Articles (selection)

« Groupes d’intellectuels en France et en Grèce à l’entre-deux-guerres. Chemins
parallèles ? », Rives méditerranéennes, 50 (2015), Figures d’intellectuels en
Méditerranée, XIXe-XXe siècles, p. 131-144.

« Lectures pour enfants. Productions originales et traductions au XIXe siècle en
Grèce », The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, 12 (2015), p. 101-124.

« Anciens et modernes. Approches théoriques du roman grec (XIXe-XXe siècles) »,
The Historical Review / La Revue Historique, 9 (2012), σ. 161-198.
http://historicalreview.org/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/294/187

«Λογοτεχνία, λαϊκότητα και παιδεία στο τέλος του 19ου αιώνα. Μια πρώτη
προσέγγιση» [Literature, popular and culture at the end of the 19th c.], στο Λόγος
και χρόνος στη νεοελληνική γραμματεία 18ος-19ος αι. Πρακτικά συνεδρίου προς
τιμήν του Αλέξη Πολίτη (Ρέθυμνο, 12-14 Απριλίου 2013) [in Discourse and time in
modern Greek literature. 18th-19th c. Colloquium Proceedings], eds : Stephanos
Kaklamanis, Alexis Kalokairinos, Dimitris Polychronakis, University Press of Crete,
Herakleio 2015, p. 695-706.

«Συμβολές
της
γαλλικής
σκέψης
στις
γραμματολογικές
προσεγγίσεις
της
νεοελληνικής λογοτεχνίας, από τη Μεταπολίτευση έως σήμερα», [«Contributions of
the French thought to the modern Greek literature approaches, from 1974 till
today»], στο Συναντήσεις της ελληνικής με τη γαλλική ιστοριογραφία από τη
Μεταπολίτευση έως σήμερα [in Rencontres de l’Historiographie grecque et
française depuis 1974 jusqu’à nos jours], eds: Vanghélis Karamanolakis, Maria
Couroucli, Triantafyllos Sklavenitis, École française d’Athènes, NHRF, Mnimon,
Athens, p. 61-78.

« Pénélope Delta et la tradition stéréotypée des Bulgares dans la littérature pour
enfants », in Greek-Bulgarian relations in the age of national identity formation /
Relations gréco-bulgares à l’ère de la formation des identités nationales, eds: P.D.
Kitromilides – A. Tabaki, INR/NHRF, Athens 2010, p. 297-311.

« Lectures comparées de la littérature à la première personne », Tendances
actuelles de la Littérature comparée dans le Sud-Est de l’Europe, sous la direction
de Anna Tabaki, Tetradia Ergasias–29, INR/NHRF, Athens 2006, p. 181-188.

“Literary Quests in the Aegean (1840-1940). Identity and Cosmopolitanism”,
History and Anthropology, vol. 16, no. 1, March 2005, p. 113-127.