Effie studies literature and its relation to other arts, with particular attention to the historical avant-garde movements and modernism. Her interests include poetics, the relation between image and text, social analysis of literature, politics and literature, and the internationalization of the avant-garde.
In Spring 2018 she began a three-year term as a Behrman Professor in the Humanities in the academic year 2017-2018. She directed the Humanities Sequence in 2018-2019. She co-taught the Capstone Seminar, When Worlds Collide: Poetry and Computation, in the Spring of 2020. Rentzou will be teaching HUM 216/217, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Western Culture I: Literature and the Arts, History, Philosophy and Religion in the Fall of 2022.
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