Members

Lab director Effie Yiannopoulou is Assistant Professor in English and Cultural Theory at the School of English, Aristotle University. She has researched and published work in the fields of twentieth-century women's writings, Black British and British Asian literature, postcolonial and cultural theory. She is especially interested in theories of mobility and community building and their impact on cultural, racial and gender identities.

Maria Schoina is Associate Professor in the School of English Literature, Aristotle University. Her publications and research interests focus on British Romantic literature and culture, Romantic Philhellenism, Anglo-Italian literary and cultural relations, the reception of classical texts in the Romantic period, the history of the book and digital humanities.

Zoe Detsi-Diamanti is Professor in the Department of American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and researching in the field of 18th- and 19th- century American culture, society, and political ideology with emphasis on early American drama.

Fotini Apostolou is Associate Professor in the Department of Translation and Intercultural Studies, Aristotle University. She has worked as a freelance translator and interpreter since 1993. She teaches and researches in the fields of translation practice, community and conference interpreting, cultural studies. Her book Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction was published by Greenwood Press in 2001.

Tatiani G. Rapatzikou is Associate Professor in the Department of American Literature, School of English, Aristotle University. Her publications focus on contemporary American literature (fiction and poetry), technological uncanny, cyberpunk/cyberculture (with emphasis on William Gibson) as well as on digital and print narratives and inscription practices. Her current research focuses on urban narratives and digital literary practice.

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies). She is Professor in English Literature and Culture in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on feminist and body theory.

Katerina Nicolaidis is Professor of Phonetics-Phonology. She teaches courses in phonetics, phonology, L1, L2 phonological acquisition, and methodology of pronunciation teaching. Her main research interests are in the area of experimental phonetics. She has worked for several international and national research projects and has published work on normal and disordered speech production and phonological acquisition. 

Effie Botonaki is Assistant Professor of English Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in early modern English literature and culture. Her research and publications focus on autobiographical writing, with particular emphasis on the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and also the Stuart court masques in the context of the political turmoil of the first half of the seventeenth century.

Dr Lydia Efthymia Roupakia holds a PhD and an MPhil in English Studies from the University of Oxford, UK. Her PhD and MPhil research was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK). Dr Roupakia's research interests focus on issues of multiculturalism in the Americas; identity construction and Inter-American studies; cultural theory; comparative Canadian and US literature; contemporary transcultural Anglophone literature and narrative ethics. Her publications include book chapters; essays published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Atlantis, Literature Interpretation Theory, University of Toronto Quarterly and in other journals. She is also co-editor of a volume of essays on religion and migration published by Palgrave Macmillan (2017).

Dr. Sophia Emmanouilidou received her Ph.D. from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with distinctions in 2003 and on a full scholarship from the Foundation of National Scholarships in Greece (IKY). She has been a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas, Austin and the John F. Kennedy Institute (JFKI) for North American Studies, Freie Universität of Berlin. Her interests include border cultures, social studies, space theory and ecocriticism.

Maria Ristani holds a BA, an MA and a PhD from the English Department of Aristotle University in Thessaloniki (Greece) where she currently teaches. Her research interests include Beckett, contemporary British drama, sound art and acoustics, and the use of media in contemporary performance. Her work has been presented at conferences and published in international journals and volumes. 

Theodora Patrona received her Ph.D.  from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011. She holds an MA in Translation (2001) from the University of Surrey , UK and a BA in English Language and Literature from the School of English, AUTh. She has published numerous articles and chapters on Greek American and Italian American literature and film, and regularly reviews  for journals and sites abroad. Dr. Patrona is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late Twentieth Century Greek American and Italian American Literature. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017. She has taught at the Aristotle University and the Hellenic Mediterranean University at Heraklion, Crete (ELMEPA). She is interested in Diaspora and identity issues in the Anglophone world. Dr. Patrona is currently co-editing a comparative volume on Greek American and Italian American culture.