Maria Koundoura

Maria Koundoura is the author of two books, The Greek Idea (2007) and Transnational Culture, Transnational Identity (2012), and is working on a new book, Desire Lines: Metaphors of the Global City. She has published essays on modernity, culture, and difference many of which have been translated and published in journals around the world. Her translations of the Greek poet Yiorgos Chouliaras appear in Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Translation, among others. She is Professor of Literature in the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing at Emerson College.