THE HELLENIC ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES
in collaboration with
THE FULBRIGHT FOUNDATION GREECE
cordially invite you to the
ONLINE ANNUAL LECTURE
featuring
CECILIA WOLOCH

As a Woman I Have No Country: An American Poet Navigates the Liminal
Thursday, April 2, 2026
6:00 pm–7:30 pm EEST
We look forward to welcoming Cecilia Woloch!

Abstract
“As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” In her iconic statement, Virginia Woolf encapsulates the complex experience of countless women throughout history who have felt displaced from any single nation or culture and, through writing, have come to discover a truth about the self that transcends borders and invites a deeper sense of identity and belonging. My own journey toward that understanding has been both literal and literary, traveling the world as an independent woman, American by birth but with a legacy of rootlessness, while writing and living the stories and poems of the self I’ve simultaneously discovered and
created en route.

Biographical note
Cecilia Woloch is the author of six collections of poems and a novel. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, and CEC/ArtsLink International, along with numerous other honors, including a Pushcart Prize and inclusion in the Best American Poetry series. The text of her second book, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, has been the basis for multi-lingual, multi-media performances across the U.S. and Europe. Born in Pennsylvania and raised there and in rural Kentucky, she has traveled the world as a teacher and writer. She is currently a Fulbright scholar at Jagiellonian University in Kraków. She is visiting Greece via the
Fulbright Intercountry Lecturing Program.

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