Although I was born in New York 1982, I grew up in Cyprus and I had not visited my birthplace until 2000, when I came to study Literature and Linguistics at Queens College, CUNY. Three years later, I started my masters at Teachers College, Columbia University, and concentrated on TESOL, that is, teaching English as a second language. I entered the PhD program in Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY, in 2004 and I am planning to graduate by 2009. So far my career was academically oriented and I devoted little time to practice. I have taught ESL (English as a second language) as well as EFL (English as a foreign language) periodically at various places such as at Queens College, Teachers College, and at a private institute in Cyprus. In the meantime, I also presented one of my papers at a Conference in Ohio. The focus of that particular talk was Fairy Tales and I discovered a way to look through the mysterious complexity of sleeping princesses and princes.
Finally, my area of interest is the 20th century literature and I am particularly drawn by issues like memory, the mind, emotions, etc.

Areas of Interest

Modernity, Modern Greek literature, the 20 century novel, memory, mind, narrative techniques, emotions

Languages

Bilingual: Greek, English. French (basic), Ancient Greek and Latin

Couses taught

TEACHER’S COLLEGE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY New York, NY
ESL Teacher, Community English Program, Sep. 2003- June 2004
Taught 6 hours weekly at the Low and High Intermediate levels of Columbia’s (TC) in- house program
Lesson Planning, assessment for all four skills, exam creation, report writing and other administrative tasks
QUEENS COLLEGE Queens, NY
ESL Teaching Assistant, College Now, Feb. 2003 – June 2003
Taught the language component of a Social Studies class
Prepared students for the Regents examination
PRIVATE TUTOR Astoria, NY
Greek language tutor, Sept. 2000 – June 2003
Used knowledge of Linguistics to teach Greek to foreign language learners
COLUMBIA PRIVATE INSTITUTE Limassol, Cyprus
Teaching Assistant, June 2001 – July 2001 and June 2002 – July 2002
Taught English to Greek native speakers
Developed a variety of lesson plans for different proficiency levels

Curriculum Vitae