FOREIGN LANGUAGE – ENGLISH
Foreign Language I – 1st Semester
Maria Vara, member of the Special Teaching Staff
The course aims to equip students with the the knowledge, skills, and strategies that are necessary for the study of English-language art texts, thereby facilitating access to foreign-language bibliographic resources. Emphasis is placed on English art terminology through the analysis of scholarly texts. The course focuses on the particularities of essay discourse and on key terms that are essential for understanding academic writing conventions.
Foreign Language II – 2nd Semester
Maria Vara, member of the Special Teaching Staff
The course aims to equip students with the the knowledge, skills, and strategies that are necessary for the study of English-language art texts, thereby facilitating access to foreign-language bibliographic resources. Emphasis is placed on English art terminology through the analysis of scholarly texts. The course focuses on the particularities of essay discourse and on key terms that are essential for understanding academic writing conventions.
MARIA VARA / Special Teaching Staff
Maria Vara is Special Teaching Staff at the Department of Theory and History of Art, Athens School of Fine Arts. She holds an MA from the University of East Anglia (Norwich, UK) and a PhD ̶ funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation ̶ from the School of English, Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece). She has been secretary of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE, www.enl.auth.gr/hase/), 2014-2020. Her publications include chapters in The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe (Continuum, 2007), Metafiction and Metahistory in Contemporary Women’s Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), Le Gothic (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008), Rewriting/Reprising: Plural Intertextualities (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009), The Letter of the Law: Literature, Justice and the Other (Peter Lang, 2013), The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), Liminal Dickens (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) and Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). Her most recent publication (2022) is ‘OMG JANE AUSTEN’: Austen and Memes in the Post-#MeToo Era (https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/11/5/112).
Email : mvara@asfa.gr