The Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures cordially invites you to a guest lecture by Dr Evy Varsamopoulou (Cyprus) and Dr Maria Varsam (Peloponnese):

‘Future Fragments: The Utopian Dimension of the Romantic Imagination’.

The lecture will take place on Wednesday 18 December 2024 in Room 111 at 14:15 (main faculty building, 1st Floor).

Everyone welcome!

Dr Evy Varsamopoulou is Associate Professor at the Department of English Studies of the University of Cyprus in Nicosia and an Associate Fellow at the Wolfson College of Cambridge University. She is the editor of Romantic Futures: Legacy, Prophecy, Temporality (Routledge, 2023).

Dr Maria Varsam is Lecturer in the Department of Performing and Digital Arts where she teaches courses on American and British Drama, Gender and Performance and EAP. She holds an MA from Lancaster University, an MPhil from the University of Glasgow, and a PhD from the University of Nottingham, with a doctoral thesis on Anglo-American dystopias. Her research interests are in dystopian fiction, trauma studies, neo-slave narratives, the Bible as literature, friendship, and  (self)sacrifice.