Noussia Maria
Maria Noussia holds a Ph.D. from the University of London (June 1999). She has done graduate studies (M.A. and Ph.D.) at the University College London (UCL) and at the University of Florence.
She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2001-2002 (National Merit Scholarship of Greece), Junior Fellow at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in 2007-2008, Margo Tytus Fellow at the University of Cincinnati in the Fall quarter of 2010, Research Fellow at the University of Princeton in 2015, and she has been awarded research grants from the A.G. Leventis Foundation, Paris (2000-2001), the Georgetown University (2009) and the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (2003-2007).
She has taught Classical Philology at the Universities of Columbia, Connecticut and Georgetown University (2008-2011) and at the University of Chieti-Pescara (2003-2007). She is Senior Lecturer (Permanent Assistant Professor) of ancient Greek Philology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki where she teaches since 2012.
Her research interests include Lyric poetry; Homer and the Greek epic (the history of the text of Homer; the reception of the Epic Cycle; transformations of the epic genre; parody); Hellenistic literature (mainly of the ‘comic mode’: epic and philosophical parody); ‘dinner’ literature/material culture of the ancient world; Old comedy; Reception within antiquity.
She is the author of the book Solon of Athens: The Poetic Fragments, Brill Academic Publishers 2010, and of many articles in international journals, conference proceedings, and collective volumes regarding Lyric poetry, ancient Greek Hymns, reception in antiquity, and the philosophical poetry of the early Cynics. She has co-edited, with Marco Fantuzzi and Herwig Maehler, the volume Solone: frammenti dell’ opera poetica, Biblioteca Universale 2001, with Gregory Nagy the volume Solon in the Making: The Early Reception in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries, De Gruyter 2014, and with Flora Manakidou, ΑΡΧΟΜ’ ΑΕΙΔΕΙΝ. Δεκατρείς Μελέτες για τους Αρχαίους Ελληνικούς Ύμνους, Dardanos Publishers 2018.
She is currently working on a monograph on the uses of literary parody in the fourth century and completing the coeditorship of two collective volumes.