Argyro Nicolaou

Argyro Nicolaou is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in Comparative Literature and Critical Media Practice at Harvard University. Her dissertation project, titled "Europe and the Cultural Politics of Mediterranean Migrations," examines case studies of displacement in the Mediterranean region through literary texts, political memoirs, and film, looking specifically at the ways in which such narratives of migration have shaped the geopolitical and cultural imaginary of Europe. In 2016 Argyro was awarded a Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Dissertation Research Fellowship, which she used to travel and conduct research in Greece, Cyprus, Sicily, and Tunisia. Media projects include In Half, a short narrative film about artistic censorship and politics, screened in festivals in New York, Romania, and Cyprus; George Ph. Ioannides (Trikomitis), a multimedia installation about the fate of digital artifacts after death for a European Capital of Culture 2017 exhibition in Paphos, Cyprus; "In the Same Boat: Morocco's Migration Lessons for Europe," a one-hour podcast she co-produced for the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative in January 2016. Publications include: "Cyprus and the Not-so-soft Power of Cultural Politics: Lawrence Durrell’s Bitter Lemons and Rodis Roufos’ The Age of Bronze" in The Journal of Mediterranean Studies (May 2017); and A Waste of Time (short story) forthcoming in Writing Nicosia… Beyond Barriers Anthology (winter 2017).