Campus Narratives

Maria Ristani received her Ph.D. from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, in 2012, after successfully completing her doctoral research on the intrinsic musicality of Samuel Beckett’s ‘text-scores’, exploring, in particular, the role of rhythm in the verbal and scenic idiom of his late plays. Part of her work has been presented at conferences in Greece and abroad, while she has published several articles and chapters on Samuel Beckett’s dramaturgy, as well as on the topics of sound and listening in modern theatre and performance art. Her research interests include contemporary British drama, sound art and acoustics. She is currently affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of English Literature) where she teaches contemporary drama and research methodology courses.

Research Interests: modern British drama, Samuel Beckett, sound art and acoustics, podcast drama, listening across disciplines  

Magda Barouta is a theatre scholar, writer and teacher, living in Thessaloniki, Greece. She received a BA in English Language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2020 and is currently a postgraduate student in the department’s MA program “English and American Studies”. She was the recipient of the 2022 “John McGrath Scholarship” for the “Theatre and Performance” course offered by the Scottish Universities’ International Summer School at The University of Edinburgh. During the spring semester of the same year she was an assistant tutor in the undergraduate course “Methodology of Research” at the School of English, AUTh. As a writer, some of her creative work has been published in the online literary journals “Echoes” and “Poeticanet”.

Tania Diamanti graduated from the department of English Language and Literature of the Aristotle University in 2017. She is a postgraduate student in English and American Studies and is currently working on her MA dissertation. Her research focuses on intergenerational trauma, hybrid identities and the role of writing in creating space for the experiences of minority groups in contemporary American literature and culture. She is interested in contemporary Anglophone literature, creative writing as well as the editing of translated literary works.

Elena Ignatiadou is a PhD candidate at the School of Film at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and currently working as a content creator. She graduated from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki back in 2020, and completed her Master in Digital Media, Culture and Communication at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the same university. Her research interests include media and communication, arts, theatre, and acoustics.

Evripidis Karavasilis graduated from the School of English Language and Literature in 2021. He is currently working as an ESL instructor and studying for a master’s degree in English and American Studies. His research interests include Contemporary American Literature, Critical Race Theory, Gender and Queer Studies.

Elina Tasioula is a student at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and is currently in the process of completing her MA thesis in English and American Studies. Her research interests focus on contemporary Anglophone literature, cultural theory, identity construction, transculturalism and film studies. Her current research includes works of Latin American female writers and focuses on identity negotiation, belonging and spatial theory.

Anastasia Vitanopoulou is a graduate student of English and American Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Currently, she is in the process of completing her MA thesis on contemporary Irish theatre in the framework of pain and trauma. Her academic interests lie in the socially transformative potential of storytelling as well as the role of space in relation to the human body and its many narratives mainly realized through theatre and performance