Public Profile

Title

Dr

First Name

Maria

Last Name

Filippakopoulou

Job Title

Training and Knowledge Exchange Officer

Employer/Institution

University of Edinburgh

Employer/Institution (other)

AQMeN

Department/Unit

School of Law

Discipline

Linguistics

Other discipline / Specific area of work

Comparative Literature; Translation Studies

Short Biography

I have an academic background in comparative literature (English-French-Gree) and translation studies. I have experience in organising events and literature advocacy as Associate Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, University of East Anglia (2004-2006) and as Administrative Associate at The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh (2008-2010). My interests include discourse analysis, translation and reception studies and methodologies of comparison. I am research-active in the fields of literary translation and criticism; my latest publication can be found here: http://synthesis.enl.uoa.gr/current-issue/synthesis-4/maria-filippakopou...

Inspired by the AQMeN work, I'm currently exploring the effects of QM in comparative literature study, as, for instance, in the Stanford Literary Lab:
http://litlab.stanford.edu/

Perhaps social scientists are harder to impress, but literary theorists should have a better look:
http://lelandquarterly.com/2012/06/11/the-stanford-literary-lab/

History

Member for

1 year 2 months