Paschalia Mitskidou

Paschalia Mitskidou is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of American Literature and Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). She holds an M.A. in Creative Writing from the University of Western Macedonia and a B.A. in History from the Ionian University, Greece. Her Ph.D. project concentrates on virtual reality in contemporary American culture and the ways in which history is reconstructed through virtual reality narrative practices, focusing in particular on the themes of escapism and nostalgia, and their effect on the perception and understanding of the past. Her research interests include contemporary American fiction and digital culture, interactive digital narratives, and virtuality in the context of new media technologies. Through her participation in the Multimodal Research and Reading Group of the School of English (AUTh), she is interested in exploring the connections between different media forms and digital textual practices. She is a member of the Hellenic Association for American Studies. She is a freelance writer and editor, and also teaches Greek as a foreign language.