Despina Alexandra Constantinides is a Laboratory Teaching Staff Member of the Dept of American Literature and Culture at the School of English in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She ,holds a PhD from the same school, on the interplay between psychoanalysis, surrealism, semiotics, and psychiatry in the work of Jacques Lacan and Salvador Dali in the 1930s. She has worked as an Adjunct Lecturer in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Hellenic Open University, and has taught various undergraduate and postgraduate courses on literature and research methodology. As a Fulbright Scholar, she attended courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, in 2014, where she was also invited to teach in the “Bridging Cultures” summer seminar the following year. Her academic interests focus on psychoanalytic literary theory, psychiatry, semiotics and the study of American literature and culture spanning from the 19th to the 21st century.
