Maria Boletsi
Universitair hoofddocent
- Naam
- Dr. M. Boletsi
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Maria Boletsi is universitair hoofddocent aan het Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society.
Universitair hoofddocent
- Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen
- Centre for the Arts in Society
- Literatuurwetenschap
- Boletsi M. (2023), Barbarians in the contemporary art scene: three biennials on barbarism (Istanbul, Limerick, Athens). In: Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (red.), Barbarian: explorations of a Western concept in theory, literature and the arts. Vol. 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 400-423.
- Boletsi M. (2023), Twenty-first Century drama adaptations of medea by male authors from minor European literatures: Tom Lanoye and Dimitris Dimitriadis. In: Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (red.), Barbarian: explorations of a Western concept in theory, literature and the arts. Vol. 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 390-399.
- Boletsi M. (2023), Afterword. In: Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (red.), Barbarian: explorations of a Western concept in theory, literature and the arts. Vol. 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 425-428.
- Boletsi M. & WInkler M. (2023), From ‘socialism or barbarism to ‘ecosocialism or barbarism’: climate barbarism, ecofascism, and ecological civilization. In: Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (red.), Barbarian: explorations of a Western concept in theory, literature and the arts: vol. 2: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 305-324.
- Boletsi M. (2023), Barbarians and Civilizational Rhetoric from the End of the Cold War to the Present. In: Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (red.), Barbarian: explorations of a Western concept in theory, literature and the arts. Vol. 2: The Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler. 256-286.
- Winkler M. & Boletsi M. (2023), Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Theory, Literature, and the Arts: Vol. II: Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries. Schriften zur Weltliteratur / Studies on World Literature nr. 15. Berlin: J.B. Metzler.
- Boletsi M. (2023), Τραυλίσματα, βαρβαρισμοί και εθνική λογοτεχνία [Stammering, barbarisms, and national literature], Χάρτης 53: .
- Boletsi M. & Papanikolaou D. (red.) (2022), Special issue "Greece and the South: Grammars of Comparison, Protest, and Futurity". Journal of Greek Media and Culture: Intellect.
- Boletsi M. (2022) On stammering, barbarisms, and national literature. Bespreking van: Zanou K. (2018), Transnational patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: stammering the nation.. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 8: 231-245.
- Boletsi M. & Papanikolaou D. (2022), Greece and the Global South: gestures of spatial disobedience, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 8(2): 129-141.
- Boletsi M., Mika K., Robbe K. & Lemos Dekker N. (2021), Introduction. In: Boletsi M., Lemos Dekker N.. Mika K. & Robbe K. (red.), (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave. 1-11.
- Boletsi M., Mika K., Robbe K. & Lemos Dekker N. (2021), Epilogue: The Ends of Crisis. In: Boletsi M., Lemos Dekker N., Mika K. & Robbe K. (red.), (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave. 91-96.
- Boletsi M. (2021), Grammars of Crisis: Introduction. In: Boletsi M., Lemos Dekker N, Mika K. & Robbe K. (red.), (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave. 23-28.
- Boletsi M. (2021), 'Σωτήρη, τώρα τι θα κάνουμε χωρίς λογαριασμούς;’ Το ασανσέρ, το χρέος, και η απόρριψη της στυγνής αισιοδοξίας [‘Sotiris, Now What’s Going to Happen to Us Without Bills?’ The Elevator, the Debt, and the Rejection of Cruel Optimism], Χάρτης = MAP (Monthly Magazine of Speech & Art) (32): .
- Boletsi M., Lemos Dekker N., Mika K. & Robbe K. (red.) (2021), (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boletsi M. (2021), Voice: Active, Passive, Middle. In: Boletsi M., Lemos Dekker N., Mika K. & Robbe K. (red.), (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave. 39-43.
- Boletsi M. (2020), Die Landschaft des Göttlichen in Konstantinos P. Kavafis’ Dichtung. In: Häfner R. & Winkler M. (red.), Götter-Exile: Neuzeitliche Figurationen antiker Mythen. Myosotis. Forschungen zur europäischen Traditionsgeschichte nr. 7. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter. 203-227.
- Boletsi M. & Celik-Rappas I.A. (red.) (2020), Ruins in Contemporary Greek Literature, Art, Cinema, and Public Space. Special section of The Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
- Boletsi M. & Celik Rappas I.A. (2020), Introduction: Ruins in Contemporary Greek Literature, Art, Cinema, and Public Space, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 38(2): vii-xxv.
- Boletsi M. Papanikolaou D. (5 juni 2020), Why Rethink Modern Greek Studies Today: Notes from the Front of Cultural Analysis. Blogspot of Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: A Cultural Analysis Network. Oxford: The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (TORCH). [blog].
- Boletsi M., Houwen J.J.M. & Minnaard E. (red.) (2020), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Boletsi M. (2020), Rethinking stasis and utopianism: empty placards and imaginative boredom in the Greek crisis-scape. In: Boletsi M., Houwen J. & Minnaard L. (red.), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique. Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 267-290.
- Boletsi M. (2020), Living between the “back then” and the “not yet”: barbarians, crisis, and temporality in Margaret Atwood’s story “The Bad News”. In: Berner H., Reidy J., Rohner M. & Wagner M. (red.), Narren, Götter und Barbaren: Ästhetische Paradigmen und Figuren der Alterität in komparatistischer Perspektive. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag. 357-373.
- Boletsi M. Houwen J.J.M. Minnaard E. (2020), Introduction: from crisis to critique. In: Boletsi M., Houwen J.J.M. & Minnaard E. (red.), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to CritiqueLanguages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 1-24.
- Boletsi M. (2019), Reading irony through affect: the non-sovereign ironic subject in C.P. Cavafy's diary. In: Alphen E. van & Jirsa T. (red.), How to do things with affects: affective triggers in aesthetic forms and cultural practices. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race nr. 34. Leiden/Boston: Brill. 17-39.
- Boletsi M. (2019), Recasting the Indebted Subject in the Middle Voice, Social Science Information 58(3): 430-453.
- Boletsi M. (2018), Faith, Irony, Salt, and Possible Impossibilities: J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus in Conversation with Zbigniew Herbert’s ‘From Mythology’. In: Mehigan T. & Moser C. (red.), The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J.M. Coetzee. Rochester, NY: Camden House. 133-157.
- Winkler M., Boletsi M., Herlth J., Moser C., Reidy J. & Rohner M. (2018), Barbarian: Explorations of a Western Concept in Μodern Theory, Literature and the Arts. Vol. 1: From the Enlightenment to the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler.
- Boletsi M. (2018), The Revenge of Fiction in New Languages of Protest: Holograms, Post-truth, and the Literary Uncanny, Frame: Journal of Literary Studies 31(2): 13-34.
- Boletsi M. (2018), Towards a Visual Middle Voice: Crisis, Dispossession and Spectrality in Spain’s Hologram Protest, Komparatistik: Jahrbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft 2017: 19-35.
- Boletsi M. (2017), Europe and Its Discontents: Intra-European Violence in Dutch Literature After 9/11. In: Frank Svenja D. (red.), 9/11 in European Literature: Negotiating Identities Against the Attacks and What Followed. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. 283-322.
- Boletsi M. & Sage T. (red.) (2017), Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics. Thamyris/Intersecting: Place, Sex and Race. Leiden and Boston: Brill.
- Boletsi M. & Sage T. (2017), Introduction: Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild. In: Boletsi M. & Sage T. (red.), Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 1-14.
- Boletsi M. (2017), Vom Subjekt der Krise zum Subjekt in der Krise: Medium auf griechischen Wänden (reprint / translation). In: Latimer Q. & Szymczyk A. (red.), Der documenta 14 Reader: Prestel. 431-68.
- Boletsi M. (2017), Από το υποκείμενο της κρίσης στην κρίση του υποκειμένου: Η μέση φωνή στους Ελληνικούς τοίχους (reprint / translation). In: Latimer G. & Szymczyk A. (red.), Documenta 14 Reader: Prestel. 431-68.
- Boletsi M. (2017), Who’s afraid of barbarians? Interrogating the Trope of ‘Barbarian Invasions’ in Western Public Rhetoric from 1989 to the Present, Groniek 49(211): 115-130.
- Boletsi M. (2017), Crisis Narratives and Grammars of Resilience in Greece: The Middle Voice in Artistic Interventions since the Crisis. ['Art and Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis international conference', Research Center for Material Culture of the National Museum of World Cultures, Leiden, The Netherlands, December 13, 2017]. .
- Boletsi M. (2017), Crisis, Terrorism, and Post-Truth: Processes of Othering and Self-Definition in the Culturalization of Politics. In: Boletsi M. & Sage T. (red.), Subjects Barbarian, Monstrous, and Wild: Encounters in the Arts and Contemporary Politics. Leiden and Boston: Brill. 17-50.
- Boletsi M. (2017), From the Subject of the Crisis to the Subject in Crisis: Middle Voice on Greek Walls (reprint). In: Latimer Q. & Szymczyk A. (red.), The Documenta 14 Reader: Prestel. 431-68.
- Boletsi M. (2017), The Unbearable Lightness of Crisis: (Anti-)Utopia and Middle Voice in Sotiris Dimitriou’s Close to the Belly. In: Tziovas D. (red.), Greece in Crisis: The Cultural Politics of Austerity. London & New York: I.B. Tauris. 256-281.
- Boletsi M. (2016), Middle Voice, the Language of Protest, and the Rhetoric of Crisis in Present-day Europe. .
- Boletsi M. (2016), Recasting the Past from the Future: Utopia and Middle Voice in Sotiris Dimitriou’s Fiction. .
- Boletsi M. (2016), Bespreking van: Papanikolaou Dimitris (2014), “Made just like me”: The homosexual Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality. Athens: Patakis. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 34(1): 195-200.
- Boletsi M. (2016), From the Subject of the Crisis to the Subject in Crisis: Middle Voice on Greek Walls, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 2(1): 3-28.
- Boletsi M. (2015), “In Praise of Contiguity: Faith, Irony, Salt, and Possible Impossibilities in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus.” The Intellectual Landscape in the Works of J.M. Coetzee symposium. The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. April 1-2, 2015. .
- Boletsi M. & Moser C. (2015), Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept. Amsterdam / New York: Brill / Rodopi.
- Boletsi M. & Moser C. (2015), Introduction. In: Boletsi M. & Moser C. (red.), Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept. Leiden and Boston: Brill / Rodopi. 11-28.
- Boletsi M., Hoving I., Minnaard L. & Mul S. de (2015), De lichtheid van literatuur: Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving. Leuven: Acco.
- Boletsi M. (2015), Nieuwgriekse studies in Nederland: Licht aan het eind van de tunnel?, Lychnari (2): 34-36.
- Boletsi M. (2015), “From the Subject of the Crisis to the Subject in Crisis: Middle Voice on Greek Walls.” Greece in Crisis: Culture and the Politics of Austerity workshop. University of Birmingham, UK. May 23, 2015. .
- Boletsi M. (2015), Waiting for the Barbarians after 9/11: Functions of a Topos in Liminal Times. In: Boletsi M. & Moser C. (red.), Barbarism Revisited: New Perspectives on an Old Concept. Leiden and Boston: Brill / Rodopi. 355-375.
- Boletsi M. (2015), “The Violence of Haste and the Felicity of Misuse: C.P. Cavafy, Walter Benjamin, and the Greek Crisis.” Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) 24rd Symposium, Georgia State University, Atlanta, U.S. October 15-18, 2015. .
- Boletsi M., Mul S. de, Hoving I. & Minnaard E. (2015), De lichtheid van literatuur. Engagement in de multiculturele samenleving. Leuven, Den Haag: Acco.
- Boletsi M. (2014), The Barbarism(s) of Multilingualism: Outweirding the Mainstream in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Performance Literature. In: Minnaard L. & Dembeck T. (red.), Challenging the Myth of Monolingualism. Amsterdam / New York: Rodopi. 149-170.
- Boletsi M. (2014), Wall-building and the Paradoxes of Globalization: Franz Kafka’s ‘The Great Wall of China’. In: Jiande L. & Alphen E. van (red.), Literature, Aesthetics, and History: The Forum of Cultural Exchange Between China and the Netherlands. Beijing: China Social Science Press. 121-133.
- Boletsi M. (2014), Warten auf die Barbaren in der bildenden Kunst. Zwei Inszenierungen von Konstantinos Petrou Kavafis’ Gedicht. In: Dauven-van Knippenberg Carla, Moser Christian & Wendt Daniel (red.), Texturen des Barbarischen. Exemplarische Studien zu einem Grenzbegriff der Kultur. Amsterdam German Studies : Forschungen - Berichte - Texte. Heidelberg: Synchron. 195-214.
- Boletsi M. (2014), Οι σύγχρονες ζωές των βαρβάρων του Καβάφη: Μεταξύ λογοτεχνίας, τέχνης και πολιτικού λόγου [The contemporary lives of Cavafy's 'barbarians': Between literature, art, and political discourse], The Athens Review of Books 48(February): 51-53.
- Boletsi M. (2014), Still Waiting for Barbarians after 9/11? Cavafy’s Reluctant Irony and the Language of the Future, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 32(1): 55-80.
- Boletsi M. (2014), Boletsi, Maria. “Middle Voice and the Subject in/of Crisis: The Case of a Greek Wall-Writing.” 5th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies: Continuities, Discontinuities, Ruptures in the Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History, Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. October 2, 2014. .
- Boletsi M. (2013), Recasting U.S. Culture from its Margins: Queer Ethnopoetics in Performance Art. International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) 20th Congress, University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris. July 19, 2013. .
- Boletsi M. (2013), Barbarism and Its Discontents. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
- Boletsi M. (2013) Review of Inleiding in de Nieuwgriekse literatuur. Van de 12de tot de 21ste eeuw [Introduction to Modern Greek literature. From the 12th to the 21st century]. Bespreking van: Borghart P. (2012), Inleiding in de Nieuwgriekse literatuur. Van de 12de tot de 21ste eeuw. Gent: Academia Press. Journal of Modern Greek Studies .
- Boletsi M. (2013), Mehrsprachigkeit und ihre Herausforderungen: Barbarismen in Guillermo Gómez-Peña's Performance-Literatur, KultuRRevolution 65(2): 47-57.
- Boletsi M. (2013), I thermokrasia tis eironeias ston K.P. Kavafi [The Temperature of Irony in C.P. Cavafy], To Dentro [Tο Δέντρο] 193-194: 83-88.
- Boletsi M. (2013), “The Barbarism(s) of Multilingualism: Guillermo Gómez-Peña Poetic Performance Texts.” American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) 2013 Conference, University of Toronto, Toronto. April 6, 2013. .
- Boletsi M. (2013), A Liminal Topos between Old and New Realities: ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ after 9/11.” Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) 23rd Symposium, Indiana University, Bloomington. November 16, 2013. .
- Boletsi M. (2013), De reizen van de barbaren en de centrifugale Grieksheid van Kavafis, Lychnari (5): .
- Boletsi M. (2013), Some Thoughts on Uses of Barbarism After 9/11. In: Guggenbichler Maria (red.), Sister from Another Mister. Amsterdam & Munich: Wet Cartoons / Drippy Bone Books. 16-18.
- Boletsi M. (2012), Cannibalism and Literary Indigestibility: Figurations of Violence in Bart Koubaa’s De leraar, Journal of Dutch Literature 3(2): 39-67.
- Boletsi M. (2011) Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination. Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott (review). Bespreking van: McKinsey Martin (2010), Hellenism and the Postcolonial Imagination. Yeats, Cavafy, Walcott. nr. 2. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Journal of Modern Greek Studies 29(2): 296-298.
- Boletsi M. (2011), Second Personhood as Political Art. In: Aydemir Murat & Peeren Esther (red.), Eighty-Eight: Mieke Bal PhDs 1983-2011. Amsterdam: ASCA Press. 190-198.
- Boletsi M. (2010), Migratory Objects in the Balkans: When the Sound of the Other Sounds Strangely Familiar. In: Davis R.G., Fischer-Hornung D. & Kardux J.K. (red.), Performing Migration: Aesthetic Practices and Politics in Media and Music. London and New York: Routledge. 145-169.
- Boletsi M. (1 september 2010), Barbarism, otherwise : Studies in literature, art, and theory (Dissertatie. Institute for Cultural Disciplines (LUICD), Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University). Promotor(en): Alphen E.J. van & Bal M.G.
- Boletsi M. (2009), Introduction. In: Birdsall C., Boletsi M., Sapir I. & Verstraete P. (red.), Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 1-13.
- Boletsi M. (2009), Barbarism as a Mode of (Not) Knowing. In: Birdsall C., Boletsi M., Sapir I. & Verstraete P. (red.), Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press. 57-75.
- Boletsi M. (red.) (2009), Prisma Groot Woordenboek Nieuwgrieks-Nederlands/Nederlands-Nieuwgrieks. Houten: Het Spectrum (lid van redactieteam).
- Boletsi M. (2009), The Travels of a Literary Topos: C. P. Cavafy’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ and its Visual Restagings, Cavafy Forum : .
- Boletsi M., Birdsall C., Sapir I. & Verstraete P. (red.) (2009), Inside Knowledge: (Un)doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press.
- Boletsi M. (2008), A Place of her Own: Negotiating Boundaries in Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place and My Garden (Book). In: Aydemir Murat & Rotas Alex (red.), Migratory Settings nr. 19. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 229-246.
- Boletsi M. (2007), Barbarian Encounters: Rethinking Barbarism in C.P. Cavafy’s and J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, Comparative Literature Studies 44(1-2): 67-96.
- Boletsi M. (2006), How to Do Things With Poems: Performativity in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy, Arcadia: Internationale Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft 41(2): 496-418.
- Boletsi M. (2006), Between Hospitality and Hostility: Crossing Balkan Borders in Adela Peeva’s ‘Whose is this Song?’. In: Boer I.E., Bal M., Eekelen M. van & Spyer P. (red.), Uncertain Territories: Boundaries in Cultural Analysis. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi. 239-258.