ORGANISING COMMITTEE

FOTINI APOSTOLOU

RUTH PARKIN-GOUNELAS
NICOLA REHLING
Fotini Apostolou studied English literature at the School of English , Aristotle University . Her book Seduction and Death in Muriel Spark's Fiction was published by Greenwood Press in 2001. She has worked as a freelance translator and interpreter and is now Lecturer of Translation and Intercultural Studies at Aristotle University . Her recent research focuses on representations of interpreting and translation in film, and social issues in interpreting .

Ruth Parkin-Gounelas studied English literature at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and Oxford University (D.Phil, 1978), and is now Professor of English Literature and Culture at Aristotle University , Thessaloniki . Her books include Fictions of the Female Self (Macmillan, 1991) and Literature and Psychoanalysis: Intertextual Readings (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001), and she has edited volumes on The Other Within (Altintzis, 2001) and Objects: Material, Psychic, Aesthetic (Sfakianakis, 2007). Recent research has been in the field of late Victorian psychology.

Nicola Rehling studied English at Emmanuel College , Cambridge and gained her PhD from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2005. She now teaches literature and film in the Department of English Literature and Culture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include contemporary popular cinema, contemporary British literature, feminist film theory, gender theory, queer theory and critical race theory. Her publications include articles on contemporary popular cinema and her book Extra-Ordinary Men: White Heterosexual Masculinity in Contemporary Popular Cinema , which will be published by Lexington Books in 2008.