School of English - AUTh

Effie Yiannopoulou

Associate Professor - Department of English Literature and Culture

Dr. Effie Yiannopoulou teaches English and Anglophone literature and cultural theory at the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has an interest in twentieth-century British women’s writings, Black-British and British-Asian literature, cultural theory, postcolonial and decolonial thought and the environmental humanities. She is particularly interested in questions of mobility (including walking and migration), embodiment, race, national identity and community-building especially in relation to gender structures. She has published her work in international journals and collections of essays and has co-edited Metaphoricity and the Politics of Mobility (Rodopi Editions, 2006), Intimate Transfers (Taylor and Francis, 2006) The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh (Peter Lang, 2007), The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), The Cultural Politics of Space (Aristotle University, 2020). She is currently Director of The Laboratory of Narrative Research which is based at the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has co-ordinated its academic activities and events for the past seven years (for more check here).

TEACHING (ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026)