Youli Theodosiadou is associate professor of American Literature and Culture in the School of English at Aristotle University. Her research interests focus on the literature and culture of the U.S. South, Women’s Studies, and the Civil Rights Movement. She has published articles on Eudora Welty, James Agee, Carson McCullers, Flannery O' Connor, Toni Morrison and others in various literary journals and has edited the collection Southern Ethnicities (2008). She has co-edited a collection of essays titled Histories and Myth-Histories: Made in the U.S.A. (2000) and Gramma: A Journal of Theory and Criticism. She has served as secretary, treasurer and vice-president of the Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and is currently a board member of the Southern Studies Forum. Her current publication project explores female identity in works by African American and southern women writers.
