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Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis Fulbright
alumnus, is a PhD Candidate in the Department of American Literature and
Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His
fields of research activity include LGBT+ Studies, Performance Studies
and Popular Culture Studies. At present, he is working on his
dissertation on the politics of global gay culture and the praxis of
camp in the contemporary pop music stage. Parts of this research project
have been featured in international conferences and academic journals.
Mr. Chatzipapatheodoridis is currently conducting his dissertation under
the aegis of IKY/SSF (State Scholarships Foundation). |
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Christina Dokou is Assistant Professor of
American Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, with a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the
Pennsylvania State University. Her interests lie in the areas of
comparative studies of Greek myth in American literature, American
culture (especially Comics Studies), American Folklore and Gender
Studies (notably androgyny), areas in which she has published a variety
of journal articles and book chapters, in Greece and abroad. She is the
co-editor of two volumes of essays, The Periphery Viewing the World
(Athens: Parousia, 2004), and The Letter of the Law: Literature,
Justice and Other (Amsterdam: Peter Lang, 2013), and has served on
the board of various academic(ally-related) organizations, such as The
Hellenic Association for the Study of English, the Association of
Fulbright Scholars in Greece, and the Byron Society of Greece. |
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Vasilis Harisis is a PhD candidate in the
Department of American Literature of the School of English (AUTH). He
holds a BA from the School of English, as well as a MA in Gender Studies
from Sussex University (U.K.). His dissertation focuses on the
conceptualization of the diva as a cultural construct via the study of
black female singers' representations in American popular culture. He
has taught courses in literature, research methods and career planning,
as well as English as a foreign language. He has also participated in
workshops and research projects organized by HELAAS and the School of
English. His further research interests involve the history of American
popular music, music criticism and fandom cultures. |
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Kristin J. Jacobson grew up in rural Wisconsin
and attended Carthage College in Kenosha, WI (B.A.) and the University
of Colorado-Boulder (M.A.). After completing her Ph.D. at The
Pennsylvania State University, she joined Stockton University’s faculty.
Currently, Jacobson is a professor of American literature. She teaches
courses in American literature, American Studies, and Women’s, Gender
and Sexuality Studies. Incorporating feminist geography and literary
analysis, her book Neodomestic American Fiction (Ohio State University
Press, 2010) investigates late twentieth-century and early twenty-first-century
manifestations of domestic fiction. She has also published articles in
Genre, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and Legacy and is the lead
editor of the forthcoming essay collection, Liminality, Hybridity, and
American Women’s Literature. Her current book project defines and
examines a new genre of travel and environmental literature: the
American adrenaline narrative. |
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Cathy Marazi is a PhD candidate in the
Department of Intercultural and Translation Studies in the School of
English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a BA in
English Language and Literature and an M.A. in American Literature and
Culture. While a Ph.D. student at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
she served as a graduate teaching assistant. Her teaching experience
also extends to primary public schools, and secondary as well as Higher
Education levels of private institutions. She was awarded a scholarship
for excellence in academic studies by the Greek State Scholarships
Foundation (ÉÊÕ). In 2017 she also earned a Postgraduate Certificate in
Learning and Teaching (CiLT) from the University of Sheffield thus
granting her the status of a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her
research interests include adaptation and brand identity theory, trans-media
storytelling, and media franchise culture. She has presented papers at
conferences both domestic and abroad promoting her research.
Publications thus far include “Brand Identity, Adaptation and Media
Franchise Culture” in the Journal of Film and Media Studies Acta
Universitatis Sapientiae (Vol.9, 2014) and “Superhero or Vigilante?
A Matter of Perspective and Brand Management” in the European Journal
of American Culture (34.1) as well as published book reviews in the
European Journal of American Studies. She is a member of the
Hellenic Association for American Studies (HELAAS) and a member of the
“Multimodal Research and Reading Group” (School of English, AUTh) where
she has collaborated with members on shared projects and has offered
individual workshops. |
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Catherine M. Roach is Professor of Gender and
American Cultural Studies in New College at The University of Alabama in
Tuscaloosa, where she teaches gender and sexuality studies and leads a
writing workshop. A native of Canada, she has lived and worked in the
United States for almost thirty years and became a naturalized citizen
in 2009. She earned her PhD in the Study of Religion at Harvard
University in 1998. Her book publications include Stripping, Sex, and
Popular Culture (2007) and Happily Ever After: The Romance Story
in Popular Culture (2016; Silver Medal in the 2017 Independent
Publisher Book Awards). She writes fiction under the name Catherine
LaRoche: Master of Love (2012) and Knight of Love (2014).
In 2013-14, she held the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Centre for
Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the University of Leeds (UK). That
same year, a Fulbright Intercountry Lecturing Award brought her to
Thessaloniki for a conference sponsored by Aristotle University. The US
Dept. of State named her to the Fulbright Specialist Roster for a five
year term in 2016. She has lectured in Canada, Australia, the UK, Greece,
and the US. Her current writing projects include an academic satire (fiction)
and an analysis of America’s new sexual revolution (nonfiction). |
