Laura Marcus, is invited in Greece by the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese and delivers a lecture on Friday, February 17, 2012 at7:00 pm in the Hellenic American Union Theatre entitled “The Death of Cinema and the Contemporary Novel”. The lecture will be in English language with printed copies of the greek translation.

The lecture will be followed by a paneldiscussion on the relation between literature and cinema, with the participation of:
Prof. Eliza-Anne Delveroudi, theatre and film historian
Elias Maglinis, journalist, author
Penny Panayotopoulou, film director
Kallia Papadaki, author
Christos Chomenidis, author
Co-ordinator: Angeliki Spiropoulou, Lecturer in Modern European Literature and Theory, The University of the Peloponnese.

Τhe event is organized by the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of the Peloponnese in collaboration with the Hellenic American Union and the European Translation Centre (EKEMEL)

Laura Marcus is Goldsmith’s Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College at University of Oxford. She was previously Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh. Her research and teaching interests are predominantly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and culture, including life-writing, modernism, Virginia Woolf and Bloomsbury culture, contemporary fiction, and literature and film. Her book publications include Auto/biographical Discourses: Theory, Criticism, Practice (1994), Virginia Woolf: Writers and their Work (1997/2004),The Tenth Muse: Writing about Cinema in the Modernist Period (2007; awarded the 2008 James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association) and, as co-editor, The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century English Literature (2004).

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