The Laboratory of Narrative Research (LNR) is a teaching and research unit that is part of the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. It has been designed to bring together scholars and researchers from across the humanities, the social sciences and other scientific fields who have a special interest in the workings and the politics of narrative production.
Lab Director: Dr Effie Yiannopoulou
Dr. Lizzy Pournara’s postdoctoral project explores the intersection of print and digital media in North-American poetry. This project is placed within the interdisciplinary framework of the humanities and new media technologies, and seeks to promote the relationship between literary studies and digital tools. On the one hand, this postdoctoral project focuses on the ways in which digitality affects print poetry. On the other hand, Dr. Pournara is interested in the practical application and development of particular technological tools that mold storytelling practices. Within the framework of the Laboratory of Narrative Research, Dr. Pournara’s postdoctoral project specializes in augmented reality as a space of literal intersection of print and digital elements, and she aims at exploring the storytelling potential of immersive media.
This research is supervised by Dr. Tatiani Rapatzikou (Assoc.Professor, AUTh) and runs from July 2019.
Bio
Dr. Lizzy Pournara is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of American Literature and Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary American Poetry (2018), an M.A. in English Literature (2013) and a B.A. in English (2011) from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). For her Ph.D. she was funded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (2017-2018). In Fall 2015 she participated as an exchange Erasmus+ student at the Doctoral Program Materialities of Literature at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. In Spring 2016, she was a Visiting Scholar (Stavros Niarchos Foundation IVGS Award) at Sensorium Center for Digital Arts and Technology, at York University in Toronto, Canada. She is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for her participation in the Salzburg Global Seminar (2014) and of a Scholarship of Excellence for Ph.D. Candidates (2016) by the Research Committee of AUTh. Her research interests focus on contemporary American poetry, digital literature, augmented reality, immersive narratives and creative writing. She is currently completing an M.A. in Creative Writing at the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. She is a member of the Multimodal Research and Reading Group of School of English, AUTh as well as a member of the Hellenic Association for American Studies and the European Association for American Studies.
Intersection of Print and Digital Media in North-American Poetry
