May Chehab

Biography

May Chehab is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature. She has been teaching at the U. of Cyprus since 2000, after having studied in Beirut, Athens (BA in English & American Literature, BA in French Literature) and France (MA in Philosophy: Art and Civilization Critique, U. of Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris-I and PhD in Literature and Art, U. of Aix-en-Provence). She was also a 2005 Visiting Fellow at the U. of Princeton and Jean Monnet Professor for History of European Integration (2003-2006). She has published two monographs (Saint-John Perse, neveu de Nietzsche, Paris, Honoré Champion, 2009 and Amers de Saint-John Perse. Ébauches de traduction par Georges Séféris [in Greek],Gavrielides, Athens, 2001), edited or coedited collective volumes (Méditerranée: ruptures et continuité in collaboration with Y. Ioannou and F. Métral, 2003; Marguerite Yourcenar entre Littérature et Science in collaboration with R. Poignault, 2007; AutoBioPhagies in collaboration with A. Lampropoulos with the participation of Ph. Lejeune, 2011). Her research interests focus on today’s Antiquity, new Autobiography, interaction between science, philosophy and literature, European Studies.