Current Projects

2024-present day

Vasileios N. Delioglanis: “Locative Thessaloniki: Mobile Media, American Speculative Narratives, and Multimodal Urban Walks”

This postdoctoral project investigates the intersection of Digital Humanities and American Studies, in conjunction with mobile locative media technologies, narrative, tourism, education, and history. The project involves the examination of certain American speculative literary texts and mobile/locative media narratives as well as the construction of urban walks containing multimodal narratives based on texts that derive from American literature and culture. The project aims to set the ground for an ongoing interaction between mobile media theory and practice, as well as between the urban reality of Thessaloniki and the broader community.

2019 – present day

Despoina Feleki: “Active Citizenship: The Role of New Media in Literary and Educational Practices

Despoina Feleki’s postdoctoral research project, titled “Active Citizenship: The Role of New Media in Literary and Educational Practices” investigates the repercussions of the wired social media interactions of contemporary Anglophone writers who employ literary voice in tandem with digital form as a means of social mobilization. As a researcher and educator in Greek State Education Feleki explores methodological ways of effectively building advocacy and active citizenship in Greek schools. She engages High School learners with the School of English (AUTh) in educational and literary projects in order to measure, study and draw valuable conclusions about the entangling power of literature and social media to raise young people’s awareness and energize their participation in collective instances of activism.

Completed Projects

2019-2021

Lizzy Pournara: “Intersection of Print and Digital Media in North-American Poetry

This 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 literature. On the other hand, this project is looking at the practical application and development of particular technological tools that mold storytelling practices. This postdoctoral project specializes in augmented reality as a space of literal intersection of print and digital elements, and it aims at exploring the storytelling potential of immersive media.