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Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis is a Fulbright
Scholar and PhD Candidate in the Department of American Literature and
Culture of the School of English at the Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece. His research interests include LGBT Studies,
Performance Studies and Popular Culture Studies, while his dissertation
focuses on the aesthetics of camp in contemporary pop music performances
and the politics of global gay culture. His academic work has been part
of international conferences and journals. |
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Giorgos Dimitriadis holds a BA in English
Language and Literature, an MA in English Literature and a PhD in Cinema
Studies, which focuses on visual perception and cognitive theory applied
to digital cinema. His research involves aspects of cinematic world-building,
with special interest in the ways in which visual mechanics affect the
cognitive functions of the human mind and viewers’ comprehension of
fictional cinematic worlds. His work revolves around various aspects of
new technologies in cinema, narrative comprehension, worldmaking theory
and visual culture, and his teaching experience includes courses on the
history and theory of cinema, literature, culture, and research &
academic writing. He has also been involved in training seminars on the
application of cinema and visual media to education. |
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Sophia Emmanouilidou
received her Ph.D. from the School of English, Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece, with distinctions in 2003 and on a full
scholarship from the Foundation of National Scholarships in Greece (IKY).
She has been a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas, Austin. She
has published several articles on Chicana/o literature and identity-focused
theories. Her interests include border cultures, social studies, space
theory and ecocriticism. She has lectured at the University of the
Aegean, Department of Social Anthropology and History; at the Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Department of American Literature; and at
the University of the Peloponnese, Department of History and Culture.
She is presently affiliated with the Center of Life Long Learning for
the Environment and Sustainability in Zakynthos, Greece and with the TEI
of the Ionian Islands, Department of Protection and Conservation of
Cultural Heritage. |
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Michalis Kokonis is Professor in the School
of English, at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has been
offering courses in Contemporary American Fiction and Cinema/Cultural
Studies. His research focuses on issues of narratology, semiotics and
cultural studies. He has published articles and essays on literary and
film theory and criticism, as well as on cultural studies. Among his
recent publications are included an essay on the visual culture of New
Hollywood Cinema, a chapter on Contemporary Greek Cinema in the
collected volume Greek Cinema: Texts, Forms, Identities, and a
chapter on videogame culture in the collected volume Digital Media:
The Culture of Sound and Spectacle, a book which he also co-edited;
also, a chapter on Cognitive Film Semiotics published in the volume
International Handbook of Semiotics. Currently he is editor of the
Cultural Studies Series, a series of film theory and criticism books
translated into Greek. |
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Ellen Marie Peck is an Associate Professor of
Drama at Jacksonville State University in Alabama, where she teaches
theatre history, dramatic literature, stage management, and musical
theatre history. She is a Fulbright scholar in at Alexandru Ioan Cuza
University in Iași, Romania for the 2016-2017 academic year. Ellen
specializes in musical theatre with an emphasis on the early twentieth
century. She is currently working on a biography of lyricist-librettist
Rida Johnson Young for Oxford University Press. She has presented at
several national theatre conferences and published articles in
Contemporary Theatre Review and Studies in Musical Theatre.
Ellen has also worked as a freelance Stage Manager for several theatres
and opera companies around the United States, including Michigan Opera
Theatre, Goodspeed Musicals, Spoleto Festival USA, and Utah Opera. She
has been a member of Actors Equity Association (AEA) since 2000 and the
American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) since 2001. Ellen received her
BA in Theatre from Oakland University, and MA and PhD in Theatre from
the University of Illinois. |
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Anastasia Stefanidou is an
adjunct faculty member of the Department of American Literature and
Culture, School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where
she completed her Ph.D. entitled Ethnic and Diaspora Poets of Greek
America. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on
American poetry and fiction, multiethnic American culture, and research
methodology at the same department. Stefanidou was awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship, a Salzburg Seminar in American Studies Fellowship, a
Princeton University Library Fellowship, and a recent Library Research
Fellowship from the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, California State
University. She has presented her work at conferences in Greece and
abroad and has published articles on Jeffrey Eugenides, prominent Greek
American poets such as Nicholas Samaras and Andonis Decavalles, and book
reviews for the European Association of American Studies and The
National Herald. Her scholarly work on Greek American literature has
appeared in such journals as the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora,
The Charioteer, the Journal of Modern Hellenism, and
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Her
translation of historian Dan Georgakas’s book My Detroit: Growing up
Greek and American in Motor City was published in 2016. |
