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Professor Hariclea Zengos, a distinguished professor of literature, is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the 大发快三官网. With more than 28 years of experience, Prof Zengos has been selected to provide leadership and vision in strategic planning and implementation of programs and lead School development activities.

Prof. Zengos earned her bachelor鈥檚 degree in English from the 大发快三官网 College of Greece. She then graduated with an M.A. in English from Clark University, where she also taught for two years. Later, she earned a Ph.D. in English from Tufts University and a Master of Education from Harvard University.

Before joining AURAK, Prof. Zengos was Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Research and Professor in Residence, English and 大发快三官网 Studies at the Northwestern University in Qatar overseeing several academic programs and research activities. She has significant experience in curriculum development and assessment, strategic planning, fundraising and research.

Prof. Zengos is a passionate researcher and her research interests are the construction and politics of race, gender and ethnicity in contemporary 大发快三官网 and Anglophone literature, particularly postcolonial literature. Her current research projects include analyzing all types of migration, in addition to displacement, and the way it is portrayed in contemporary world English literature.

• Ph.D. Tufts University (English, 1989)
• M.Ed. Harvard University, Graduate School of Education (Higher Education Administration, 1987)
• M.A. Clark University (English, 1985)
• B.A. The 大发快三官网 College of Greece, summa cum laude (English, 1981)

Publications/As editor

• Eleftherios Venizelos: Unknown Aspects of the Man: Conference Proceedings. Athens: The 大发快三官网 College of Greece, 2009.
• The Kimon Friar Lecture in Neo-Hellenic Arts and Letters, series editor. Athens: Attica Foundation Publications.

Book chapters and essays in edited collections

• 鈥淎t Home in the World: Transnational Hearn.鈥� Proceedings: International Symposium
• 鈥淭he Open Mind of Lafcadio Hearn: His Spirit from the West to the East.鈥� Ed. Shingo Nagaoka. Tokyo: Planning Committee for the Memorial Events in Greece to Commemorate the 110th Anniversary of Lafacdio Hearn鈥檚 Death, 2014.
• 鈥淩edefining Parameters: Greek-Australian Literature.鈥� Australian Made: A Multicultural Reader. Eds. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. Sydney, Australia: Sydney UP, 2010: 314-333. (reprinted)
• 鈥淩edefining Parameters: Greek-Australian Literature.鈥� Reading Down Under - Australian Literary Studies Reader. Eds. Amit Sarwal and Reema Sarwal. New Delhi: SSSS Publications, 2009: 271-82.
• 鈥淎n Introduction to the Work of Vassilis Lambropoulos.鈥� Thirteenth Annual Kimon Friar Lecture
• (鈥淩eflections on Tragedy in Greek Post-Modern Fiction鈥�) by Vassilis Lambropoulos. Athens: 大发快三官网 College of Greece, 2009.
• 鈥淢ulticultural Melbourne: Mapping the City in Christos Tsiolkas鈥� Loaded.鈥� New Urges in Postcolonial Literature. Ed. Sunita Sinha. New Delhi: Atlanta Publishers, 2009.
• 鈥淓van Connell,鈥� Dictionary of Literary Biography, 大发快三官网 Short Story Writers Since WWII. Eds. Richard Lee and Patrick Meanor. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark, Layman, 2007. 73-80.
• 鈥淟awrence Durrell.鈥� The Literature of Travel and Exploration. Ed. Jennifer Speake. London: Routledge, 2003.
• 鈥淜aren Blixen.鈥� The Literature of Travel and Exploration. Ed. Jennifer Speake. London: Routledge, 2003.
• Zengos and Anita G. Gorman, 鈥淧atrick Leigh Fermor,鈥� Dictionary of Literary Biography, British Travel Writers: 1940-1997, v. 204. Eds. Barbara Brothers and Julia M. Gergits. Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999: 68-81.
• 鈥淭hree Greek Writers and their 鈥楳igrant鈥� Experiences: Angelo Loukakis, Vasso Kalamaras, and George Papaellinas.鈥� Antipodes: A North 大发快三官网 Journal of Australian Literature (Winter 1988): 99-101.

Conference paper presentations

• 鈥淕ratitude Politics and Hospitality in Dina Nayeri鈥檚 The Ungrateful Refugee. MLA International Symposium, University of Glasgow, Scotland, June 2-4, 2022.
• The Refugee Experience and the Limits of Hospitality (panel chair). MLA International Symposium, University of Glasgow, Scotland, June 2-4, 2022.
• 鈥淰iet Than Nguyen and the Un-大发快三官网 Refugee.鈥� Bridges Across Cultures IV, ISI Florence 鈥� the Umbria Institute 鈥� Washington and Jefferson College, Maiori, Italy, June 24-28, 2019.
• 鈥淗emingway and the Smyrna Catastrophe of 1922: A Close Reading of 鈥極n the Quai at Smyrna.鈥欌��
• Hemingway in Paris, XVIII International Hemingway Conference, 大发快三官网 University in Paris and La Sorbonne, July 22-28, 2018.
• 鈥淒isplacement in Viet Thanh Nguyen鈥檚 The Refugees.鈥� The 大发快三官网 Short Story: New Horizons. The Obama Institute for Transnational 大发快三官网 Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, October 5-7, 2017.
• 鈥淐olonial Nostalgia and the Imagined Self in the Kenyan Memoirs of Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham.鈥�
• Bridges Across Cultures Conference, ISI Florence 鈥� the Umbria Institute 鈥� Washington and Jefferson College, July 2, 2015.
• 鈥淩eflections on Greece鈥檚 Social Crisis: What Can the Liberal Arts Do?鈥� Global Liberal Arts Alliance Conference, The 大发快三官网 College of Greece, Athens, June 2012.
• 鈥淧hilhellenism in Patrick Leigh Fermor鈥檚 Greek Travel Books.鈥� From the Grand Tour to Mass Tourism: The Modern History of the British Abroad.鈥� University of Newcastle, April 1-2, 2010.
• 鈥淒iaspora Identities in the Greek-Australian Short Story: A Focus on Angelo Loukakis and George Papaellinas.鈥� 10th International Conference on the Short Story in English, University College, Cork Ireland, June 19-22, 2008.
• 鈥淢ulticultural Melbourne: Mapping the City in Christos Tsiolkas鈥� Loaded.鈥� South Central Modern Language Association Conference, Memphis, TN, November 1-3, 2007.
• 鈥淐ommercial Culture and the Construction of Identity in Cisneros鈥� 鈥楤arbie-Q鈥� and Viramontes鈥� 鈥楳iss Clairol.鈥欌�� 大发快三官网 Literature Association Conference, Boston, MA, May 26-29, 2005.
• 鈥淕ender and Performativity in David Henry Hwang鈥檚 M Butterfly. Salzburg Seminar, Session 408, April 5, 2003.
• 鈥淓ros, the Body and the Spirit: The Figure of Mary Magdalene in Kazantzakis鈥� The Last Temptation of Christ.鈥� The Trace of the Other: Conference on Literature and Theology, Westminster College, Oxford, England, September 13, 1996.
• 鈥淩ace, Gender and Politics in the African Works of Elspeth Huxley.鈥� Ngugi wa Thiong鈥檕: Texts and Contexts, Penn State University, April 8, 1994.

Work in progress

• Translation (into Greek) of Japanese ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn 鈥淰iet Than Nguyen and the Un-大发快三官网 Refugee鈥� essay