Dr Elina Staikou
Academic qualifications
BA in English Literature, University of Athens, 1993
MA in Comparative Literary Theory, University of Warwick, 1995
PhD in Comparative Literature, University of Warwick, 2003
Teaching
First year
HT51021A
Second and third year
HT52090A History of Friendship
MA
HT71053A Contemporary Thought
Research interests
History of Philosophy, Contemporary Thought, Post-war French Thought, Jacques Derrida, Critical Theory, Walter Benjamin, Literary Theory.
Selected publications
Articles in refereed journals
The World to Come: Heidegger and Derrida, Diotima, 2009.
Justice's Last Word: Derrida's Post-Scriptum to 'Force of Law', Derrida Today, vol 1, issue 2, 2008.
Force of Name: Derrida & Benjamin, Parallax, (forthcoming)
Forthcoming books
The Love of Ruins: Derrida on Benjamin
Conferences organised
The Benjaminian Text (Athens, May 2007)
Recent seminars and conference presentations
’Force of Name: The Critique of Violence’, Melbourne, 2008
’A propos Moscow’, Derrida Today, Sydney, 2008
’Force of Name’, The Critique of Violence, Goldsmiths, 2008
'The World to Come: Heidegger and Derrida', Cosmos and Philosophy, Athens, 2007
'Before the Law: Benjamin, Derrida, Agamben', The Benjaminian Text, Athens, 2007
'Re-markable Singularities: Translation, Testimony and the Question of the Idiom', Derrida's Legacy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 2006
'A Certain Preference in Derrida's Rogues', Goldsmiths, 2005
'The Love of Ruins', Divine Violence, Lancaster, 2005
'The Babelian Myth of Travel', Spaces and Places, Delphi, 2003