Maria Paradeisi is Assistant Professor at Panteion University of Athens, Greece, in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She teaches undergraduate courses such as Introduction to Cinema, History of World Cinema, Film Analysis, and courses in the graduate MA program on Cultural Studies (Film Theory). She is a member of the scientific committee of the project “Gender Studies in Political and Social Science (2002-2007)” and she collaborates in the research project Ge.M.IC (Gender, Migration and Intercultural Interaction) funded by the European Union.

She has studied Law, Political Sciences and Cinema in Thessaloniki (University of Thessaloniki) and Paris (Paris X, Paris VII). She holds a Doctorate Degree in Political Sciences (1984) (title of thesis: Women’ s Representations in Hollywood Cinema). Paradeisi has also worked for Greek radio, television and cinema from 1985-1989 and has directed films for Greek television.

Paradeisi is the author of the book Cinematic Narration and Delinquency in the Greek Cinema (1994-2004), Athens, Greece, 2006. Typothito Press. She has also published numerous articles on Greek cinema and women’ s cinema: “Works and Days of the old and new Greek Cinema”, O Politis (Citizen), No 122/April-June 1993 pp. 50-56; “Women’ s representations in the Greek Comedy”, To Vima ton Koinonikon Epistimon (Social Sciences Forum) III, No 11/July 1993 pp. 185-204 and Optikoakoustiki Koultoura (Audiovisual Culture). No 1/February 2002 (revised publication) pp.113-128; “Νeorealism in Greek Cinema” Istorika (Historical) No 20/June 1994 pp.123-146; “The representation of young people in the social drama of the sixties”, Istorika (Historical) No 22/June 1995 pp.205-218 and Optikoakoustiki Koultoura (Audiovisual Culture) No 1/ February 2002 (revised publication) pp.151-166; “Politics as symptom in the comedies of Greek Cinema and Theater” To Vima ton Koinonikon Epistimon (Social Sciences Forum) V, No 17/December 1995 pp.163-174; “War, Drama and Spectacle in the old Greek Cinema”, Istorika (Historical) No 42/June 2005 pp. 203-216; “Femmes et droit en Grèce: Les réformes du droit de famille”, Actes No 57-58/Winter 86-87pp. 12-14.

Email: mparad AT otenet.gr and mparadis AT panteion.gr