Maria Ypsilanti:

Biography

She obtained her first degree from the Department of Greek Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens (1991-1995). She studied at a post-graduate level at King’s College (University of London), Department of Classics (M.A. in Classics, 1996-1997), and at University College London (University of London), Department of Greek and Latin (PhD in Classics, 1998-2003). PhD thesis: An Edition with Commentary of Selected Epigrams of Crinagoras, forthcoming (revised and enriched with the rest of Crinagoras’ poems, with double as much the size of the thesis) in Oxford University Press (ISBN 9780199565825). In 1999 she was awarded a three-year scholarship from the National Scholarships Foundation of Greece (IKY) in support of her PhD research. From 2004 onwards she teaches Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Cyprus.

Research Interest

Hellenistic Poetry, Poetry of Late Antiquity, Epigram, Tragedy, Textual Criticism. Principal Investigator of a Research Program funded by the University of Cyprus (2010-2012) on Nonnus' Paraphrase of the Gospel of St.John. Main collaborators: Laura Franco, Margherita Maria Di Nino. Short-term collaborators: Filip Doroszewski, Claudia Greco, George Kazantzides, Julia Demetriou. (all collaborators hold a doctoral degree) (The grant was awarded after a process where 126 proposals were competing and following a peer-reviewed evaluation by international referees it was ranked 10th).