Lizzy Pournara

Lizzy Pournara is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of American Literature and Culture, AUTh. She holds a Ph.D. in Contemporary American Poetry from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece. She also holds a B.A. in English (2011) and an M.A. in English Literature (2013) from the same university. 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 at the Salzburg Global Seminar (2014). Her research interests focus on contemporary American poetry, artists’ books, digital literature, book-making and creative writing. Through her participation in the Multimodal Research and Reading Group (AUTh) she is looking forward to testing the impact of inscription technologies on creative writing practices and formation of reading habits.