AFRODITI-MARIA PANAGHIS

Afroditi-Maria Panaghis is Emerita Professor of English literature at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied English literature at the English Department of the University of Cairo, Egypt (BA); at Claremont Graduate School, California (MA); Psychology at Pitzer College, California; and holds a PhD in English from the State University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA. She has taught at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, from 1976-1978; and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, from 1980 to 2014. Her research interests lie in British Literature from the sixteenth to the mid-twentieth century, mythology, and psychoanalytic theories. She is the author of T. L. Beddoes: A Study in the Concept of Death (1990),Vincent O’Sullivan: A Quest for Divine Union (2001), The Defeat of Death: A Reading of Sir Henry Rider Haggard’s Cleopatra (2013), and co-editor of Precarious Identities: Studies in the Work of Fulke Greville and Robert Southwell (2020) with Vassiliki Markidou. She has also published many articles in academic journals that cover a wide spectrum of Continental, English, and American literature such as “Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain,” “Älfarabi's Ideal City,” “The Magic of the Imagination in William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” Questing for Identity in Patrick White’s The Aunt’s Story,” “Myth and Ritual in Liam O’Flaherty’s Short Story ‘Spring Sowing,’” and “Numerology and Ritual in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying.”