Dr. Sophia Emmanouilidou received her Ph.D. from the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with distinctions in 2003, and on a full scholarship from the Foundation of National Scholarships in Greece (IKY). She was a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas, Austin, and the John F. Kennedy Institute (JFKI) for North American Studies, Freie Universität of Berlin. She has published several articles on Chicana/o literature and identity-focused theories. Her interests include border cultures, social studies, spatial hermeneutics, ecocriticism and ecofeminism. She is the co-editor of the volume Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities (2020), Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media, vol. 3 (2019) and the Special Issue of Revista Canaria de Estudios Ingleses, vol. 81(2020). Her latest project is editing the Greek translation of Tino Villanueva's So
Spoke Penelope (Vakhikon
Publications 2022).
As of May 2022, she serves as the Program Coordinator for The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas (MESEA) (see: https://mesea.org/ )
