Theodora Patrona Research and Teaching Fellow in the School of English and teaches literary classes. Dr. Patrona has published numerous articles and chapters on Diaspora literature (Greek-American, Greek-Australian and Italian- American) and film, and regularly reviews for journals and sites abroad. She is the author of Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late Twentieth Century Greek American and Italian American Literature. Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2017, and coeditor of Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation (Fordham UP 2022, winner of the Vassiliki Karagiannaki MGSA award for originality). She has co-edited the special section of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (JMGS) on obscure Greek-American women (October 2025) and the special issue of Diasporic Italy on the father /fathering in Italian -American literature and culture (December 2025). She is currently co-editing the next Gramma journal (forthcoming 2026) with Dr. Effie Botonaki on trauma literature. She has taught at the Aristotle University and the Hellenic Mediterranean University at Heraklion, Crete (ELMEPA) and she is interested in diaspora and identity issues in the Anglophone world.
| Semester | Code | Title | Group | Day | From | To | Room |
| Winter | G-LSUD4 EnLit460 | Oceanic Texts and Culture(s) | Tuesday | 18:30 | 21:00 | 417 | |
| Winter | G-LSUD3 Lit390 | Introduction to the Research Paper | Monday | 13:30 | 16:00 | 01 í.ð. |
