April Kalogeropoulos Householder

Candidate statement

April Kalogeropoulos Householder, Ph.D., is the director of Undergraduate Research and Prestigious Scholarships at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC). April holds degrees in film production, art history, and comparative literature, and has taught courses in film and media studies, and gender and women’s studies. In 2006, she completed her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her dissertation included the production of a documentary film about Bouboulina entitled, The Brave Stepped Back: The Life and Times of Laskarina Bouboulina, which premiered at the Armata Festival in Spetses, Greece, and is collected by the Hellenic Museum and Cultural Center in Chicago, Illinois, as well as many universities, libraries, and Greek Orthodox parishes world-wide. In 2016, April published her first book, Feminist Perspectives on Orange Is the New Black: Thirteen Critical Essays, and has published several other recent book chapters on intersectional feminist media history and theory. Her chapter on Baltimore’ radical feminists of the 1970s appears in Baltimore Revisited (2019). Her most recent publication is “Representations of Women in Greek American Films about the Greek Revolution” in The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in North America (Η ελληνική Επανάσταση και η ελληνική διασπορά στη Βόρεια Αμερική. Maria Kaliambou, ed. Athens: Asini, 2022). Her chapter, “Greek American Feminist Artists: Radical Traditions”, with Kostis Kourelis (Franklin & Marshall College), is forthcoming. Also forthcoming in May, 2023 is her edited volume, Bouboulina and the Greek Revolution: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Heroine of 1821 (Lexington/Rowman and Littlefield). Her research interests include modern Greece and comparative media and identity politics.