1. C.V.
Anna Koustinoudi
Home address/Communication:
Lagyna 57200, Thessaloniki, Greece. Tel. 2394072625.
Ε-mail: annakost@otenet.gr
& akoustinoudi@gmail.com
Acquired degrees
1. B.A. (1986) in English Language and Literature School of English (Aristotle
University): Grade: 8,8/26 (on the scale of zero to ten) “First Honours” (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki)
2. Μ.Α. (1996) in English Literature and Culture (Victorian Novel) Grade: 9,12
“Outstanding”. Thesis Title: “Narrative Voice and Gender in Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Fiction” My M.A. Thesis won the “Jina Politi” award for best thesis of the year
(Aristotle University)
3. PhD. (2009) in Victorian Studies: cum laude/ “Outstanding”. Dissertation Title: “The
Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person Fiction” (Aristotle
University)
Research Interests
English prose and continental philosophy with an emphasis on the English novel of the 18th
and 19th centuries (especially E. Gaskell) in combination with Narrative Theory, Gender
studies, Psychoanalysis and Post-structuralist theory.
Teaching Experience In the Greek Secondary Education
1. School Years: 1985-1992. Teacher of English at George Kyriakidis School of Foreign
Languages. 1989-1999 Director of Studies
2. School Years: 1992-2016. State School Teacher of English in Greek Secondary
Education
3. School Year: 2006-07. Seconded to Aristotle University (School of English) as
Instructor of English Literature
Academic Teaching Experience, Academic Appointments & Courses
taught at the School of English (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
1. Academic year 2003-04 Autumn and Spring Semesters: Lit-5-127. Introduction to
Fiction (First-year core module) Instructor
2. Αcademic year 2004-05 Autumn and Spring Semesters: Lit-5-127 Ιntroduction to
Fiction. As Instructor
3. Αcademic year 2005-06 Lit.5-127 Introduction to Fiction. Spring Semester: Lit-1-
120, Computer Literacy and Research Skills.( first-year core module) as Instructor
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2. 4. Αcademic year 2006-07. Autumn and Spring semester: Lit. 5-126 (Introduction to
Drama) & Lit. 1-120 Computer Literacy and Research Skills (both first-year core
modules) as Instructor
5. Academic year 2007-08. Autumn semester: Lit 6236E. “The Nineteenth Century
British Novel” (3rd
year elective) as Adjunct Lecturer
6. Academic Year: 2010-11. Autumn Semester: Lit 5-127 Critical Workshop: Fiction
(First-year core module) as Adjunct Lecturer.
7. Academic Years 2011-12, 2012-13, 2013-14. 2014-15: “The Nineteenth Century
British Novel” (2nd year core module, Autumn & Spring Semesters 2011, 2012,
2013, 2014) at New York College (affiliated to the State University of New York and
Greenwich University)) as Adjunct Lecturer.
Publications
1. “Narrative Voice and Gender in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford” in Gramma Journal
of Theory and Criticism Volume 9 (2001): 113-28.
2. “Disavowal, Defence and Voyeurism in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis” in
College Literature (West Chester University U.S.A.) General Issue 35.2: 2008 70-
83.
3. “Narrating the Community and the Individual in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cranford.” in
Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism Vol. 18, The Individual and the Mass:
Literary and Cultural Reflections (2010): 67-80.
4. “The Influential Role of Learners’ School Experiences on their Construction of a
Sense of Gender Identity” in ELT News, June 1999.
5. “The Febrile ‘I’/Eye: Illness as Narrative technique in Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘Six
Weeks at Heppenheim’” in The Gaskell Journal (forthcoming in the issue No 25 of
2011)
6. “Looking Backward: Narrative Discordances and Transgenerational Traumas in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s ‘The Poor Clare’” in Gothic Studies (Manchester University
Press.)
7. Monograph: The Split Subject of Narration in Elizabeth Gaskell’s First-Person
Fiction from Lexington Books, Lanham, MA. 2012. ISBN-10: 0739166085,
ISBN-13: 978-0739166086
8. “Gaskell the Ethnographer: The Case of Modern Greek Songs.” In the collective
volume titled, Place and Progress in the Works of Elizabeth Gaskell. Eds. Lesa
Scholl, Emily Morris and Sarina Gruver Moore (Ashgate, 2015, p.p. 137-146).
9. “Psychic Investment(s) in Familial Bonds and the Question of Evil in Elizabeth
Gaskell’s A Dark Night’s Work” in Evil and its Variations in the works of E.
Gaskell. A Sesquicentennial Commemorative Volume, (ed. Mitsuharu Matsuoka,
Osaka University, Japan, 2015. p.p. 329-244.)
10. Numerous publications (prose, poetry, translations and book reviews) in Greek
journals and literary magazines like The Books’ Journal, Entefktirio, Paremvasi,
Oropedio, Emvolimon, To Dentro, Frear etc.)
Work in Progress
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3. 1. “Elizabeth Gaskell: The Biographer as Biographee” to appear in:
Biographical Misrepresentations of British Women Writers: A Hall of Mirrors
and the Long Nineteenth Century (ed. by Brenda Ayres, Liberty University) to
be published by Palgrave.
2. Καλειδοσκοπικός Σελιδοδείκτης: 15 Κριτικές Αναλύσεις Κειμένων. (εκδ.
Γαβριηλίδης), due to appear in August 2016.
Conference Presentations
1. “The Flesh Made Text” HASE International Conference. Aristotle University (Μay 2003)
Paper Title: “The Body as Text, the Text as Symptom and the Narrator as Voyeur in
Elizabeth Gaskell’s Cousin Phillis”
2. “Politics and Aesthetics” international conference Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and
University of Veliko Turnovo (June 2005). Paper Title: “Dissembling Strategies of Narrative
Ambivalence in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton”
3. “The Life and Works of Elizabeth Gaskell” international conference. University of Salford,
U.K. (September 2006). Paper Title: “Of Gothic Mirrors, Memories and Νarrative
Discordances: Elizabeth Gaskell’s “The Poor Clare”
4. “The Individual and the Mass” HASE international conference (June 2008). Aristotle
University. Paper Title: “Narrating the Individual and the Community in Elizabeth Gaskell’s
Cranford”
5. “Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014):
Economy, Society, History, Literature” Annual International conference organized by The
European Society of Modern Greek Studies. (Thessaloniki, 2-5 October 2014). Paper title:
“Elizabeth Gaskell the Ethnographer: The Case of Modern Greek Songs”
Miscellaneous
1. Oral Examiner for the National Certificate of English Language Competence (KPG)
2. Certified User of Office Microsoft suite (Official Certification issued by the Greek
Ministry of Education)
3. Invited Speaker in the one-day event organized by the English Department of Aristotle
University titled: “Current Career Prospects for the Graduates of the English
Departments” organized by the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
(4th
December 2007)
4. Co-organizer of the one-day event “Research Days 2007” organized annually by the
English Department of Aristotle University (http://www.enl.auth.gr/events/research.htm)
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4. Memberships
1. HASE (Hellenic Association for the Study of English)
2. GASKELL SOCIETY
3. MLA
Languages
English & Greek.
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