Maritina Leontsini

PhD in Modern European History, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens – Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Italian Language and Philology, NKUA

Title of research proposal: “‘Riformatrici e esuli’. Female political participation and activism in 18th and 19th Italy (1780-1871)”

BioPublications

Maritina Leontsini was born in Athens, Greece, in 1990. She was awarded her PhD in Modern European History from the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in May 2020. Her thesis, entitled ‘Notions of Female Nature and Education in Early Modern Italy, 16th–18th centuries’, was funded by the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY) and is currently under publication by the Saripolos Library Series of NKUA. She holds an MA in Early Modern History from the Department of History of the University of Sheffield (2014). Her master’s dissertation is entitled ‘The Woman Question in Early Modern Venice: A Case Study of Lucrezia Marinella’ and her studies were funded by the NKUA Sophia Saripolos Foundation. She received her BA (Ptychion/4yrs degree) in History from the Department of History and Archaeology, NKUA (2012). Her main academic interests focus on Modern European History, Modern Italian History, Modern Greek History, Gender Studies, Intellectual History, History of Education, History of Books and Book Publishing. She is a Fellow of the Research Centre for the Humanities (RCH) for the year 2024. She is currently teaching as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Economics & Sustainable Development at Harokopio University of Athens and as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Italian Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has also taught as an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. She was a member of the research project based in NKUA entitled ‘The European Gazettes for the Greek Revolution’ under the supervision of Professor Dr. Aristides Hatzis. She is fluent in English and Italian and has reading knowledge of French and Spanish. She has participated in national and international conferences, seminars & public venues both in at home and abroad and she is a member of national and international academic societies and associations.

Books (peer reviewed)

Notions of Female Nature and Education in Early Modern Italy, 16th–18th Centuries, PhD, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 2020, 586pp. [under publication by Saripolos Library Series, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 2024].
Codex of the Book of Administrative Correspondence of Bishop Konstantinos Stratoulis and of the Kytherian Episcopal Committee (1882-1890-1917-1921), Sources of the Ecclesiastical History of Kythera Series, by Maria-Konstantina Leontsini (transcribed, edited, with an introduction), Society for Kytherian Studies, 39, Athens 2024, 345pp.

Papers & Collective Volumes (peer reviewed)

2024: ‘Aspects of Gendered Patriotism in the Ionian Islands and the Education of Women. The Case Studies of Elizabeth Moutzan-Martinegou and Lady Adam’, in Proceedings of the Conference 200 years from the Greek Revolution (1821-2021). People, Ideas, Institutions & Activities’ (Corfu Reading Society, Corfu, 12-14 November 2021), Bulletin of the Corfu Reading Society, 30 (2020-2021) [in Greek, forthcoming].
2024: ‘Literary salons and the role in the unraveling of political and national causes. The Case Study of Cristina Trivulzio di Belgiojoso in the context of Risorgimento, in Proceedings of the International Conference entitled: Literary and Musical Salons in Italy and in Europe (18^th-19^th), organized by the Department of Italian Language and Philology, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 13-15 December 2023 [in Greek, under publication].
2024: ‘Violence against Ionian subjects in Patra by Greek authorities in the middle of 19^th British diplomatic acts as act of cultural enforcement’, in the Proceedings of ΧΙΙ Panionio Conference, Zante, 18-21 October 2023 [in Greek, under publication].
2024: ‘Branding Kythera. A Local Coalition for Adventure Tourism in the Island of Kythera and its Role in Shaping the Island’s Historic, Cultural, and Tourism Brand. A Contemporary Approach’ in Proceedings of ΧΙΙ Panionio conference, Zante, 18-21 October 2023 (in collaboration with Athina Fatsea and Rigas Zafeiriou) [in English, under publication].
2023: ‘Isolation and the “epidemic” of melancholy in early modern Europe. A cultural view of melancholy’, Mos Historicus, A Critical Review of European History, p. 79-99 [in Greek].
2023: ‘Slavery and the Problem of Refugees in the Greek Territories during the Greek Revolution: The Unacknowledged Aid of the Ionian Women and the Aid of the American Women to Greek Women’, Κεφαλληνιακά Χρονικά 22 (2023), p. 217-236 [in Greek].
2022: ‘Inventing the “perfetta vedova”: the legitimisation of widows through their “utility” as pedagogues and educators in early modern Italy», History of Education & Children’s Literature, XVII:2 (2022), p. 467-486 [in English].
2021: ‘Gender, City and Exceptionality: Exceptional Women, the Notion of Happiness and Antagonism Between Early Modern Italian Cities», in Irini Picolou & Kate Foy (eds.), Crossing Borders, Contesting Boundaries. Proceedings of the 2020 MEMSA Student Conference, MEMSA Journal, p. 45-56 [in English].
2019: ‘Aspects of the Social and Economic Life in 19^th century Kythera. A Case Study of the families of Ioannis Kaloutsis and Nikolaos-Sofoklis Kaloutsis’, in Ilias Toumasatos (ed.), Proceedings of the 11^th International Panιonian Conference (Cephalonia, 21-25 May 2018), Vol. II: Political History of the 20^th Century and Special Topics, Society for Cephallonian Historical Studies, Argostoli 2019, p. 451-474 [in Greek].
2019: ‘Essai sur le caractère les moeurs et l’esprit des femmes dans le differens siècles, l’opera di Antoine Leonard Thomas, tentativo ante-litteram di una prima storia sulle donne e la rivoluzione scientifico nell’ Italia dell’Ottocento’, in Gerasimos Pagratis (ed.), Le fonti della storia d’Italia prima e dopo l’Unità: casi di studio per la loro analisi e ‘valorizzazione’, Papazissis Publs, Athens 2019, p. 693-716 [in Italian].
2018: ‘Rosa California and Her Difesa delle donne. A Phantom Writer, Its Context and Its Pre-Context’, in Milagro Martín Claviho and Mattia Bianchi (eds.), Desafiando al olvido: Escritoras italianas inéditas, Editiones Universidad Salamanca, Salamanca 2018, p. 137-150 [in English].
2018: ‘Women, Family and State in Early Modern Venice. Perceptions of Violence by Arcangela Tarabotti (1604-1652)’, in Antonios Ampoutis, Marios Dimitriadis, Sakis Dimitriadis, Theodora Konstantellou, Maria Mamali, Vangelis Sarafis (eds.), Violence and Politics: Ideologies, Identities, Representations, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge 2018, p. 302-318 [in English].
2015: ‘The Litany of Saint Chalarampus’, in Proceedings of the 10th International Panιonian Conference, (Corfu, 30 April- 4 May 2014), Society of Corfiot Studies and Anagnostiki Society of Corfu, Corfu, 2015, p. 157-167 [in Greek].
2011: ‘Western “Dark Ages” Reality or Myth?’, in Charalambos Babounis (ed.), Historias Merimna. Essays in Honour of Professor George N. Leontsinis, vol. I, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 2011, p. 687-695 [in Greek].