Natasha Remoundou

Visiting Assistant Professor

BA, English & American Literature, Deree – The American College of Greece; MSc, English Literature: Writing & Cultural Politics, University of Edinburgh; PhD Classics & English, National University of Ireland, Galway

Dr. Natasha Remoundou joined Deree in 2020 and teaches the International Honours seminars “Zoopolitics: Animal-Human Encounters in Literature and Culture” and  “Antigone’s Dilemma: Citizenship and Resistance in the Contemporary World,” respectively. Dr. Remoundou lectures on critical theory and gender at the Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities at University College Dublin. Recently, she was an Irish Research Council Laureate Fellow at the National University of Ireland, Galway where she worked on the ‘Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry, 1914-2021’ Research Project funded by the Irish Research Council. Previously, she held the post of Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Moore Institute, University of Galway, Ireland, where she conducted archival research exploring contemporary Irish theatre, visual rights, and asylum narratives. She was an Assistant Professor of English Literature at Qatar University and taught Anglophone literature, critical theory, classical reception studies, and philosophy at the University of Galway.

Dr Remoundou’s research interests include Irish studies, posthumanist ethics, gender and feminist/queer politics, social justice, animal studies, technology, as well as the rewriting of classical myth in decolonial contexts in World literature. She has published and presented papers on 20th and 21st c. literature, Irish and Modern Greek studies, interculturalism, extinction, class, memory, gender and racial violence, law and refugee rights. Currently, she is working on her monograph through the lens of literature, environmental humanities, and intersectional rights.