Goldsmiths - University of London

Dr Anastasia Stouraiti

Academic qualifications

BA History, University of Athens, 1995
MA History, University of Athens, 1998
PhD History, University of Athens, 2003

Teaching

First year
HT51019A Religion, Peace and Conflict
HT51023A Ideas and Identities

Second and third year
HT52102A/HT53102A Mediterranean Encounters: Venice and the Ottoman Empire, 1453-1797
HT52109A/HT53109A Visual and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe

MA
HT71124A Visual Culture and Empire in Early Modern Venice

Areas of supervision

I would welcome research proposals on the history of Venice and the early modern Mediterranean. I am also happy to supervise work on print and visual culture in early modern Europe.

Research interests

Anastasia Stouraiti is a cultural historian of the early modern period, specialising in the history of the Republic of Venice and its empire. Her work examines the impact of the colonies on Venetian metropolitan culture and the relationships between the Venetian and the Ottoman empires. Her research and teaching interests include the history of the book and reading, early modern visual culture and the history of the Mediterranean. She is currently completing a book provisionally titled War, Communication and the Culture of Politics in Seventeenth-Century Venice , in which she integrates war into the history of culture through the study of the information media that affected the formation of an early modern Venetian public and shaped perceptions of the Ottoman empire.

Fellowships and Grants

• British Academy Small Research Grant, 2011-13
• Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of History and Civilisation,
• European University Institute, Florence, 2007-2008
• Postdoctoral Research Grant, Greek State Scholarships Foundation - Department of History, Ionian University of Corfu, 2006-2007
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, 2004-2005

Doctoral Research Students

David Knight, 'Weapons of imperialism: a comparative work of imperial cartography and the role of empire'

Selected publications

Books

• (ed. with M. Infelise), Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600 , Milan, Franco Angeli, 2005.
• (ed.), Memorie di un ritorno. La guerra di Morea nei manoscritti della Querini Stampalia 1684-1699 , Venice, Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia, 2001.

Book chapters

• (with A. Kazamias), "The Imaginary Topographies of the Megali Idea: National Territory as Utopia", in N. Diamandouros, T. Dragonas and C. Keyder (eds), Spatial Conceptions of the Nation: Modernizing Geographies in Greece and Turkey, London, Tauris Academic Studies, 2010, pp. 11-34.
• "Lutto e mimesi. Due aspetti della nostalgia imperiale nella Repubblica di Venezia", in R. Petri (ed.), Nostalgia. Memoria e passaggi tra le sponde dell'Adriatico, Rome - Venice, Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura - Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, 2010, pp. 91-105.
• (with R. Petri), "Raummetaphern der Rückständigkeit: Die Levante und der Mezzogiorno in italienischen Identitätsdiskursen der Neuzeit", in B. Schenk and M. Winkler (eds), Der Süden. Neue Perspektiven auf eine europäische Geschichtsregion , Frankfurt, Campus, 2007, pp. 151-174.
• "Geografie del trauma e politiche di lutto: racconti sulla perdita delle Isole Ionie a Venezia", in K. A. Dimadis (ed.), The Greek World between the Age of Enlightenment and the Twentieth Century , Athens, Ellinika Grammata, 2007, vol. 2, pp. 159-168.
• "Una storia della guerra: Pietro Garzoni e il suo archivio", in M. Infelise and A. Stouraiti (eds), Venezia e la guerra di Morea. Guerra, politica e cultura alla fine del ‘600 , Milan, Franco Angeli, 2005, pp. 242-270.

Journal article

• "Colonial encounters, local knowledge and the making of the cartographic archive in the Venetian Peloponnese", European Review of History / Revue européenne d'histoire 19.4 (2012).
• "Talk, Script and Print: The Making of Island Knowledge in Early Modern Venice", Historical Research (2012).
• "Costruendo un luogo della memoria: Lepanto" [pdf], Storia di Venezia-Rivista 1 (2003), 65-88; reprinted in M. Sbalchiero (ed.), Meditando sull'evento di Lepanto. Odierne interpretazioni e memorie , Venice, Corbo e Fiore, 2004, pp. 35-52).
• "Propaganda figurata: Geometrie di dominio e ideologie veneziane nelle carte di Vincenzo Coronelli" [pdf] , Studi Veneziani 44 (2002), 129-155.
• "Tra le ragioni di una sconfitta. Una relazione inedita sulla guerra di Candia (1662)", Archivio Veneto 159 (2002), 117-140.
• "La guerra di Morea (1684-1699). Forma e ideologia di una narrazione", Studi Veneziani 41 (2001), 259-280.

Working paper

• "Colonial Mapping and Local Knowledge in the Venetian Empire, 1684-1715" [pdf] , European University Institute Working Papers, Max Weber Programme, MWP 2008/15

Exhibition catalogue

• "The construction of knowledge in the Venetian island books" in G. Tolias (ed.), The Aegean Sea: Cartography and History, 15th – 17th century, Athens, MIET, 2010, pp. 45-59 (in Greek).
• "Finzioni del potere: allegoria e politica nel Seicento veneziano”, in G. Busetto (ed.), Dei ed eroi del barocco veneziano , Catania, Maimone, 2004, pp. 81-91.
• (ed. with L. Marasso), Immagini dal mito. La guerra di Morea 1684-1699 nelle raccolte della Querini Stampalia , Venice, Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia, 2001.
• (ed.), La Grecia nelle raccolte della Fondazione Querini Stampalia , Venice, Fondazione Scientifica Querini Stampalia, 2000.