Currently, Lissi Athansiou is a PhD candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center in the department of Comparative Literature. Lissi received her B.A. from Queens College, where she majored in Applied Linguistics and Comparative Literature, as well as had a concentration on Greek Literature and a minor from the Honors Program. She graduated within three years with magna cum laude. Following her interest in linguistics and ESL teaching, she obtained with high honors an M.A from Teachers College, Columbia University, in TESOL (Teaching English to Students of Other Languages). A year later she entered the PhD “En Route” program at the Graduate Center. Her teaching experience started mainly from Queens College where she appeared as the language teacher in a Social Studies class preparing foreign students for the Regents Exams under the program College Now. She continued teaching at Teachers College where teaching English familiarized her with teaching adults. Recently she has taught two classes at Hunter College, one of which combined her interests of Linguistics and Literature in a course entitled “The History of the English Language.” The second course was an “Introduction to English Literature” and approached a variety of texts raging from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse. In addition she presented at several conferences.
Areas of Interest
Modernism, Post-Modernism, Narratology, the Psychological Novel, English, Greek and French Literature.
Languages
English, Greek, French, Ancient Greek and Latin
Teaching Experience
HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Taught two sessions of “Introduction to English Literature”
Works assigned for the course:
Plays: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Oscar Wild’s The Importance of Being Earnest
Poetry – the Romantics: William Blake’s Song’s of Innocence and of Experience, Selected Poems by William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge and Alfred Tennyson,
Prose: Jane Austen Emma, James Joyce The Dead, Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse
HUNTER COLLEGE, CUNY
Taught two sessions of an advanced three-hundred level course entitled: “The History of the English Language”
Covered material from the Anglo-Saxon period to Modern Times
Mostly a linguistically oriented course
TEACHER’S COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
ESL Teacher, Community English Program
Taught 6 hours weekly at the Low and High Intermediate levels of TC’s in- house program
QUEENS COLLEGE, CUNY
ESL Teaching Assistant, College Now
Taught the language component of a Social Studies class