Petra Tournay-Theodotou
Vice Chairperson, Professor, English Literature
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School of Humanities, Social and Education Sciences
Department of Humanities
Academic Qualifications
| Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis title |
| Doctor of Philosophy | 1991 | University of Aachen, Germany | English and Romance Philology | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: Die manieristische Struktur der Rimas |
| Second State Examination | 1992 | State of Northrhine-Westphalia, Germany | Kreative Textproduktion anhand spanischer und suedamerikanischer Textbeispiele. | |
| First State Examination (= Masters) | 1987 | University of Aachen, Germany | English and Romance Philology | Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer: Untersuchungen zu den Rimas |
Employment History
| Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | |
| From | To | |||
| 1994 | present | European University (former Cyprus College) | Nicosia, Cyprus | Faculty |
Publications
| Year | Title | Other authors | Journal and Publisher / Conference | Vol. | Pages |
| 2017 | "Telling Your Story: Trauma and Memory in Leone Ross's Orange Laughter". | The Cross-Cultural Legacy. Critical and Creative Writings in Memory of Hena Maes-Jelinek. Ed. By G. Collier, G.V. Davis, M. Delrez and B. Ledent. Cross/Cultures Series, Leiden/ Boston: Brill/ Rodopi | 141-151 | ||
| 2017 | “More Bitter Lemons: George Tardios’s Poem ‘After the Lemons’”. | Deus Loci. The Lawrence Durrell Journal. | NS15 | 57-70 | |
| 2016 | Britishness beyond the New Britain: British identities and the identity of Britain in recent black and Asian British Writing. Special issue. | Co-editors: Ulrike Pirker, Sofía Muñoz Valdivieso | Journal of Postcolonial Writing | Vol. 52, 1 | |
| 2016 | “Coming Unmoored: the Crisis of Belonging and new Ways of Belonging in Caryl Phillips’s In the Falling Snow”. | Journal of Postcolonial Writing | Vol. 52, 1 | 51-63 | |
| 2014 | “’Love Letter to My Ancestors’: Representing Traumatic Memory in Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter”. | Atlantis | Vol. 36, 2 | 161-182 | |
| 2014 | “Some Connection with the Place: Jackie Kay’s Red Dust Road”. | Wasafiri | Vol. 29, 1 | 15-20 | |
| 2013 | “I love Cyprus but England is my home”: Eve Makis’s Eat, Drink and Be Married. | Postcolonial Translocations: Cultural Representation and Critical Spatial Thinking. Stein, Mark et. al. (eds.), Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi. | 253-273 | ||
| 2012 | "Strange Encounters: Nationhood and the Stranger in Caryl Phillips's A Distant Shore". | Caryl Phillips: Writing in the Key of Life. Bénédicte Ledent and Daria Tunca (eds.). Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi. | 293-307 | ||
| 2011 | . “Reconfigurations of ‘Home as a Mythic Place of Desire’: Bernardine Evaristo’s Soul Tourists”. | Projections of Paradise: Ideal Elsewheres in Postcolonial Migrant Literature. Ramsey-Kurz, Helga with Gheeta Ganapathy-Doré (eds.). Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi. | 105-121 | ||
| 2009 | “Performative Bondage or the Limits of Performing Race in Caryl Phillips’s Dancing in the Dark”. | Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing. | Vol. 31, 2 | 94-107 |
Exhibitions
Research Projects
| Date | Title | Funded by | Project Role* |
| Spring 2018 | International research project Bodies in Transit | Spanish Ministry of Education | Member |
Academic Consulting Services/Councils/Boards/Editorial Committees
| Period | Organization | Title of Position or Service | Key Activities |
| 2014-2017 | EACLALS (European Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies) | Board member, Secretary | Conference Organization, Publication of Newsletters, Communication with members of the association via email, Website maintenance |
| 2010-present | European University | Editorial Assistant, Cadences, Literary Journal | Selection, Proofreading, Editing of contributions to the journal |
| ESSE (European Society for the Study of English) | Vice-President of CySSE, Cypriot Branch of ESSE | Organization of Symposia, communication with members |