Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou holds degrees in English Studies from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA Honours, PhD) and Leeds University (MA in Theatre Studies), and is Professor in English and Gender Studies. She has been teaching and publishing on Realism, Modernism, and the English novel, as well as on gender and body theory. She is general editor of the European Journal of English Studies and was president of the Hellenic Association for the Study of English (HASE) from 2014 to 2020.

katkit@enl.auth.gr

Tel: +30 2310 99 7403
Fax: +30 2310 99 7432

Teaching

Bodies of Power and Resistance: Crossreadings in Literature, Art, and Culture (MA in English and American Studies)
Literature in Education (MA in Language, Literature and Digital Media in Education)
Literature and the Arts in Language Teaching (MA in Foreign Language Learning and Teaching)
Woolf and Bloomsbury (4^th-year undergraduate level)
Literature, Arts and Culture in Education (4^th-year undergraduate level)
Contemporary Shakespeares: Adaptations and Appropriations (4^th-year undergraduate level)
Shakespeare (4^th-year undergraduate level)
Introduction to Gender Studies (3^rd & 4^th-year undergraduate level, Interdepartmental Module organized by the Gender and Equality Committee of AUTh)
Body: Politics/Representations (Interdepartmental Undergraduate Programme of Gender Studies)
Gender Studies in the Humanities (3^rd & 4^th-year undergraduate level, co-taught with Mary Mike and T-S. Pavlidou)
Εισαγωγή στις Σπουδές Φύλου (Διατμηματικό επιλεγόμενο μάθημα 3^ου & 4^ου έτους, οργάνωση: Επιτροπή Φύλου και Ισότητας ΑΠΘ)
Theatre Workshop (3^rd & 4^th-year undergraduate level)
Gender and Sexuality: Intersections in English Literature and Culture (3^rd-year undergraduate level)
Nineteenth- Century Realisms and Beyond (3^rd-year undergraduate level)
English Literature and Culture: 1890-1950 (2^nd-year undergraduate level)
Survey of English Literature II: From Romanticism to Postmodernism (2^nd-year undergraduate level)
Workshop in Critical Writing: Poetry (1^st-year undergraduate level)
Workshop in Critical Writing: Drama (1^st-year undergraduate level)
Introduction to Literary Studies (1^st-year undergraduate level)

Supervision of PhD Theses

Completed

Irene Stoukou, “Becoming-Alice: Critical Posthumanist Readings of Contemporary Screen Reimaginings of Lewis Carroll’s Alice”
Ekaterini Tachmatzidou "Seeing as Knowing: Newton's Opticks and the Perception of the Female Educator in Charlotte Brontë's Novels "
Filomachi Spathopoulou "'There was a numerous family': Jane Austen's Re-appropriation of the Population Debate"
Elisavet Ioannidou, "Revising Victorian Class and Gender Norms: A Study in Neo-Victorian Representations of Victorian Space"

In progress

Youli Ntola, “Envisioning Female Solidarity in Neo-Victorian Fiction”

Publications

Edited Volumes

Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era. Ed. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Smmers, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. Routledge, 2019.
Liminal Dickens: Rites of Passage in His Work. Ed. Valerie Kennedy, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body. Ed. Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era: Selected Proceedings. Ed. Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2009.
The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Cultural and Theoretical Returns to the Body. Ed. Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou. New York: Peter Lang, 2007.
Η Λογοτεχνία και οι Προϋποθέσεις της. Επιμέλεια: Τίνα Κροντήρη, Κατερίνα Κίτση-Μυτάκου. Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press, 1999.

Edited Journal Issues

The Politics of Location: Feminist and Queer Spaces in Global Contexts, Gramma: Theory of Literature and Culture, 25 (2018). Ed. Margaret Sönser Breen and Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou.

Wrestling Bodies, Gramma: Theory of Literature and Culture, 11 (2003). Ed. Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou.
Experiments in/of Realism, Synthesis 3 (Winter 2011). Ed. Anna Despotopoulou and Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. http://www.enl.uoa.gr/synthesis/issue3.htm

Books

Kitsi-Mitakou, K., Ristani, M., Misiou, V. & Mytakou, T. Navigating Gender: Cross-Currents in Literature, Theatre, Translation, and Education. Κάλλιπος, Ανοικτές Ακαδημαϊκές Εκδόσεις, 2023.
KITSI, A., KANARAKIS, I., YIANNOPOULOU, E., 2016. Movements and Trends in 19th- and 20th-Century English Literature. [ebook] Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries Link. Available Online at: https://repository.kallipos.gr/handle/11419/941.
Feminist Readings of the Body in Virginia Woolf's Novels. Thessaloniki, 1997.

Articles

Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina, Maria Vara, and Georgios Chatziavgerinos. ‘OMG JANE AUSTEN’: Austen and Memes in the Post-#MeToo Era. Humanities 11: 112 (2022). https://doi.org/10.3390/h11050112
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Vassiliki Misiou. ‘From Classical Athens to the Women’s Suffrage in Twentieth-Century Britain and Greece’. Ιn Classicising Crisis: The Modern Age of Revolutions and the Greco-Roman Repertoire. Ed. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson. London: Routledge, 2020.
‘“A Society of Outsiders”: Virginia Woolf’s Feminist Agenda in A Room of One’s Own and Three Guineas’. In Women and the Ideology of Political Exclusion: From Classical Antiquity to the Modern Era. Ed. Tatiana Tsakiropoulou-Smmers, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. Routledge, 2019. 277-292.
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. ‘“But She Loved Her Roses (Didn’t that Help the Armenians?)”: Resisting Facts, Inventing Forms, Negotiating History in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway’. In Philosophy in the Condition of Modernism. Ed. Ana Falcato and Antonio Cardiello. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 191-213.
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. ‘Gender Trouble in Conan Doyle’s “The Adventure of the Solitary Cyclist”’. Gender Studies: The Journal of West University, Timisoara, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies, 15.1 (2016): 27-44.
‘Letters of Liminality: Print Texts as Spaces of Transgressive Desire in Thomas Hardy’s “On the Western Circuit”’. In Landscapes of Liminality: Between Space and Place. Ed. Dara Downey, Ian Kinane and Elizabeth Parker. London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2016. 213-30.
‘“A Little Life among the Multitude of Lesser Deaths”: Productive Life Cycles in Little Dorrit’. In Liminal Dickens: Rites of Passage in His Work. Ed. Valerie Kennedy, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016. 139-50.
Defoe’s Mothers of Alterity: Moll Flanders and Roxana’. Lisa E-Journal, Identity and Alterity in the English-speaking world (16th-18th centuries), XIII.3 (2015). http://lisa.revues.org/8721
‘Who’s Counting? Sexes, Genders, and Sexualities from Ancient Myths to Fin-de Siècle and Twentieth-Century Literature and Theory’. In Gender, Sex & Sexuality. Ed. Margaret Sönser Breen. Critical Insights Series. Amenia, NY: Salem Press, 2014. 20-35.
‘Exporting Corinthian Currants, Importing Dickensian Stories: The Reception of Dickens in Greece’. Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Maria Vara. In The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, Volume II. Ed. Michael Hollington. The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe, series ed. Elinor Shaffer. London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. 544-559.
‘Narratives of Absolutism in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park’. Papers in Language and Literature 49.2 (2013): 116-140.
‘Στην καρδιά του αθηναϊκού σκότους’. The Books' Journal 29 (2013): 78-79.
‘ΧΩΡΑΣΩΜΑΤΩΝ—BODYLAND της Αργυρώς Μαντόγλου’. Θέματα Λογοτεχνίας 41 (2009): 213-219.
"'The Kingfisher Comes; the Kingfisher Comes Not': The Maternal Impasse in Woolf's Orlando and A Room of One's Own", Studies in the Maternal, 1 (2) 2009, www.mamsie.bbk.ac.uk.
‘The Reception of Jane Austen in Greece’. Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Maria Vara. In The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe. Ed. Anthony Mandal and B. C. Southam. The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe, series ed. Elinor Shaffer. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2007. 224-238.
‘Whoring, Incest, Duplicity, or The “Self-Polluting” Erotics of Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders’. In Genealogies of Identity Interdisciplinary Readings on Sex and Sexuality. Ed. Margaret Sönser Breen and Fiona Peters. Series: At the Interface/Probing the Boundaries 26. Amsterdam/ New York: Rodopi, 2005. 79-94.
‘Aquatic Spaces and Women’s Places: A Comparative Reading of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and Alexandros Papadiamantis’ I fonissa’. Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 29 (2005): 187-202.
‘The Gaze of the Abject: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Re-visioning the New Science’. The Periphery Viewing the World: Selected Papers from the Fourth International Conference of HASE. Ed: Christina Dokou, Efterpi Mitsi and Bessie Mitsikopoulou. Athens: Parousia, 2004. 237-243.
‘The Flesh Made Text Made Flesh: Some Thoughts on Solid and Sullied Bodies’. Zoe Detsi-Diamanti, Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou, and Effie Yiannopoulou. The European English Messenger, Vol. XIII/1 (Spring 2004): 81-84.
‘Με τα μάτια της Διοτίμας: Βλέφαρα με τατουάζ της Αργυρώς Μαντόγλου’. Δυτικές Ινδίες, 8 ½ (2003): 104-110.
‘Κειμενικά ζευγαρώματα: Mε τον Τhomas Hardy και τη Virginia Woolf στο μυθιστόρημα της Αργυρώς Μαντόγλου Virginia Woolf Café ’. Πόρφυρας (2003): 255-260.
‘“Let the Poppy Seed Itself and the Carnation Mate with the Cabbage”: With Hardy and Woolf at Argiro Mantoglou’s Virginia Woolf Café ’. Δια-κείμενα 4, (2002): 211-30.
‘“The Country of the Moon” and the Woman of Interior Monologue: Virginia Woolf in Greece’. In The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe. Ed. Mary Ann Caws and Nicola Luckhurst. The Athlone Critical Traditions Series: The Reception of British Authors in Europe, series ed. Elinor Shaffer. London and New York: Continuum Press, 2002. 186-99.
‘“None of Woman Born”: Colonizing the Womb, From Frankenstein’s Mother to Naomi Mitchison’s Solution Three’. In Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction. Ed. Domna Pastourmatzi. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002. 208-21.
‘Κείμενο, επιθυμία, μετα-γραφή’. Στο Η Λογοτεχνία και οι Προϋποθέσεις της. Επιμέλεια: Τίνα Κροντήρη, Κατερίνα Κίτση-Μυτάκου. Θεσσαλονίκη: University Studio Press, 1999. 31-36.
‘“With my Tongue in your Tale/Tail”: The Taming of the Shrew as a Revenge on Female Aphonia’. In Anatomies of Silence. Ed. Ann Cacoulos and Maria Sifianou. Athens, 1998. 54-61.
‘Living in a Human Oxymoron: Rachel Vinrace’s Anorexic Body in Virginia Woolf’s The Voyage Out’. In Logomachia: Forms of Opposition in English Language/Literature. Inaugural Conference Proceedings. Ed. E. Douka-Kabitoglou. Thessaloniki, 1994. 159-170.
‘Clarissa Dalloway’s Body: Transformations of Christian Concepts of Femininity and Maternity in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway’. Gramma: Theory of Literature and Culture, 1 (1993): 86-104.
‘“Which Is the Greater Ecstasy?”: Desiring the Body’s Text and Writing the Body’s Desire in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando’. Yearbook of English Studies, 3 (1991-92): 215-52.

Book Review

‘Solitary Sex: A Cultural History of Masturbation’ by Thomas Laqueur. Wrestling Bodies, Gramma: Theory of Literature and Culture, 11 (2003). 162-64.

Conferences/Talks/Academic Visits

2024 University of Malta, Malta, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2024 ‘This Space is Mine’: Workshop on the Move for Theatre Inside us and Beyond, 27 March, Avlaia Theatre
2023 Participation in the organizing committee of the international conference (Ε)motion in Changing Worlds, Thessaloniki, 3-5 November
2023 University of Malaga, Spain, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2023 ESSE Executive and Board Meeting, University of Milan, Italy
2023 ‘Jane Austen in the Cult of Memes’, presented in the 7th International conference on ‘Communication of Science and Literature in the Multiverse’, Commission on Science & Literature, Aegina, Greece
2023 University of Napoli, Italy, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit, lectures given in the context of the Postgraduate Programme on Modernism
2022 University of Oviedo, Spain, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit, lectures given in the context of Gemma (Erasmus Mundus Master’s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies)
2022 University of Zielona Góra, Poland, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2021 ‘LOL: Let Ophelia Live: Shakespeare in the Age of Memes’, presented in the 15th ESSE conference, University of Lyon, France
2021 ‘Adapting Literature in Film and the New Media’, co-organizing of seminar in the 15th ESSE conference, University of Lyon, France
2019 ‘The Culture of Rape: From the Eighteenth-Century Novel to Today’s Pop Culture’, invited speaker in the panel on ‘Gender, Rights and Diversity’, University of Macedonia
2019 ESSE Board Meeting, University of Wroclaw, Polland
2019 ‘Exceptional Bodies and Narratives in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex’, presented in the international conference: ‘L'exception’, Aix-Marseille University, France
2019 University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2019 William and Mary College, Williamsburg, USA, academic staff exchange visit
2018 ‘Animal and Human Skin: Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul’, presented in the 14th ESSE conference, University of Brno, Check Republic
2018 ESSE Board Meeting, University of Brno, Check Republic
2018 University of Limerick, Ireland, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2017 Stockton University, USA, academic staff exchange visit
"Ο ‘ελαττωματικός καθρέφτης’ και το παράδοξο του ρεαλισμού: Ρεαλισμός και αγγλικό μυθιστόρημα", ομιλία στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος ‘Ο Ρεαλισμός ως διαχρονικό ρεύμα και ως ιστορικό κίνημα στη φιλοσοφία, τη λογοτεχνία, τη ζωγραφική, τη γλυπτική, το θέατρο, τον κινηματογράφο, τη φωτογραφία και τη μουσική’, 9 Μαρτιου 2017, Μακεδονικό Μουσείο Σύγχρονης Τέχνης

‘The “Defective Mirror” and the Paradox of Realism: Realism and the English Novel’, talk in the open course on Realism in the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, March 9, 2017
2016 ‘Cycling Towards Gender Fusion: Women and Bicycles in the Fin-de-siècle’, presented in the 13th ESSE conference, University of Galway, Ireland
2016 ESSE Board Meeting, University of Galway, Ireland
Participation in the panel discussion of ‘Personal Narratives’, an International Symposium organized by the Laboratory of Narrative Research of the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 15, 2016
2016 ‘From Democracy in Classical Athens to the Women’s Suffrage in Twentieth-Century Britain’, presented in the international conference: ‘Women Democracy and the Ideology of Exclusion’, University of Alabama, USA
2016 University of Alabama, USA, academic staff exchange visit
2016 William and Mary College, Williamsburg, USA, academic staff exchange visit
2015 ESSE Board Meeting, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
2015 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2015 ESSE Board Meeting, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal
2015 Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2015 ‘Οι αφανείς αδερφές του Shakespeare στην τάξη μας: Γυναίκες, λογοτεχνία και εκπαιδευτική διαδικασία’, σεμινάριο για τα μέλη της Ένωσης Καθηγητών Αγγλικών Ημαθίας, Future Library, Βέροια
2014 Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, ΕRASMUS+ academic staff exchange visit
2014 ‘Letters of Liminality: Print and Cyber Texts as Spaces of Transgressive Desire in Hardy’, presented in the international conference: ‘Between Places and Spaces: Landscapes of Liminality’, Trinity College, Dublin
2013 University of Caen, SOCRATES academic staff exchange visit
2013 ‘Nations and Empires Built on Ruins’, presented at the international conference: ‘Empires and Nations from the 18th to the 20th century’, University of Sapienza, Rome
2013 ‘Χορεύοντας με την Austen: Περηφάνια και προκατάληψη 200 χρόνια μετά’, British Council, Thessaloniki International Book Fair
2012 ‘A Little Life Among the Multitude of Lesser Deaths: Productive Life Cycles in Little Dorrit’, presented in the international conference: ‘Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages, Deaths’, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2012 ‘Ελλάδα και Dickens μαζί: Ιστορίες παράλληλες και συγκλίνουσες’, ομιλία στο πανελλήνιο συνέδριο PALSO
2012 ‘Textual Seduction and Solitary Pleasures in Thomas Hardy’s "On the Western Circuit"’, presented in the international conference: ‘Taking Liberties: Sex, Pleasure, Coercion (1748-1928)’, Newcastle University
2012 ‘Κάρολος Ντίκενς εν ώρα κρίσης’ (‘Charles Dickens in Times of Crisis’), presented in the one-day Symposium ‘Dickens After Two Centuries’, organized by the British Council in Thessaloniki
2011 ‘Thermodynamic Bodies in Movement in Dickens’s Hard Times’, presented in the international conference: ‘Bodies in Movement: Intersecting Discourses of Materiality in the Sciences and the Arts’, University of Edinburgh
2011 ‘Challenging the Sexual and the Social Law: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, presented in the international conference: ‘The Letter of the Law : Law Matters in Language and Literature, organized by the Hellenic Association for the Study of English, University of Athens
2010 ‘Facts and Form in Fiction: Dickens’ Elephants and Woolf’s Armenians’, presented in the Symposium: ‘Rethinking the Novel’, organized by the department of English Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2009 York University, Toronto, staff exchange visit
2009 ‘ “The Kingfisher Comes; the Kingfisher Comes Not”: The Maternal Impasse in Woolf’s Orlando and A Room of One’s Own’, presented in the international conference: ‘Μ(ο)ther Trouble’, Birkbeck College, University of London
2008 ‘The Reception of Dickens in Greece: Α Preliminary Plan’, presented in the symposium on ‘Dickens in Europe’, Saint Louis University, Madrid Campus
2008 ‘Private Bodies, Public Desires: Fanny Price, Anne Elliot and the Nation’, presented in the international conference: ‘The Individual and the Mass’, organized by the Hellenic Association for the study of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2008 ‘(How) Do the English Kiss? Austen’s Sexual Politics and the English Empire’, presented in the CISR/NASSR conference: ‘(Trans)National Identities—Reimagining Communities’, University of Bologna
2007 ‘“The Burthen in the Belly”: The Model of Maternity in Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Roxana’, presented in the 36th international conference of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oxford University
2006 ‘The Eighteenth-Century Model of Maternity in Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Roxana’, presented in the international conference: ‘(Inter)Cultural Communication’, University of Plovdiv
2005 ‘“The Burthen in the Belly”: Defoe’s Voracious Mothers in Moll Flanders and Roxana’, presented in the international conference: ‘Mothers and Death: Ethical and Aesthetic Issues Around the Lethal Mother-Child Relationship’, University of Bordeaux ΙII
2005 ‘The Aesthetics and Politics of Deception: Daniel Defoe’s Moll Flanders’, presented in the international conference: ‘Politics and/in Aesthetics’, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and University of Veliko Turnovo
2004 ‘Whoring, Incest, Duplicity or the Erotics of Capital in Defoe’s Moll Flanders’, presented in the international conference: ‘Sex and Sexuality: Exploring Critical Issues’, Salzburg 2004 University of Salzburg, SOCRATES staff exchange visit
2004 ‘Of Navels and Novels, Dissections and Abject Skin’, presented in the international conference ‘SKIN: texture/textuality/ word/image’, Τhe Institute of English Studies, University of London
2003 ‘Excluding Memory, Displacing Women: A Comparative Reading of George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss and A. Papadiamantis’ The Murderess’, presented in the 6th international conference on English Studies in Europe: ‘Places and Spaces: Culture, Memory and Identity’, European Centre of Delphi
2002 ‘The Gaze of the Abject: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Re-visioning the New Science’, presented in the 3rd international HASE conference ‘The Periphery Viewing the World: Language, Literature, Media, Philosophy’, University of Athens
2002 Universidade de Lisboa, staff exchange visit, Ministry of Education, Transnational Cultural Programs
2001 ‘“None of Woman Born”: Colonizing the Womb, From Frankenstein’s Mother to Naomi Mitchison’s Solution Three’, presented in the international conference: ‘Biotechnological and Medical Themes in Science Fiction’, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
2001 ‘“Let the Poppy Seed Itself and the Carnation Mate with the Cabbage”: With Hardy and Woolf at Argiro Mantoglou’s Virginia Woolf Café ’, presented in the 11th international conference on Virginia Woolf: ‘Voyages Out, Voyages Home’, University of Bangor, Wales
2000 26th Cambridge University Seminar: ‘The Contemporary British Writer’
2000 University of Bologna, SOCRATES staff exchange visit
1996 ‘“With my Tongue in your Tale/Tail”: The Taming of the Shrew as a Revenge on Female Aphonia’, presented in the international conference: ‘Autonomy of Speech/Anatomies of Silence’, University of Athens
1993 ‘Living in a Human Oxymoron: Rachel Vinrace’s Anorexic Body in The Voyage Out ’, presented in the international conference: ‘Logomachia: Forms of Opposition in English Language/Literature’, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Other Activities

A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, interactive project based on Shakespeare’s play and open to the public, devised by students from my class on ‘Contemporary Shakespeares’, June 2, 2023
‘A Jar of Marmalade’, interactive project for primary school students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the Third Experimental School of Evosmos on January 10, 2023

‘The Bald Soprano’, interactive project for first-year university students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’, December 21, 2022
'«Κάθε βράδυ γλεντούσαμε»: Ιστορίες του χθες στο σήμερα’, βιωματικό εργαστήρι για μαθήτριες και μαθητές 12-17 χρονών στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος ‘Ξεδιπλώνοντας το κουκούλι της μνήμης: Ιστορίες γυναικών σ’ έναν κόσμο που χάνεται’, χρηματοδοτούμενο από το The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative, 18 Δεκέμβρη 2022
‘Every Night Was a Feast: Stories from the Past Narrated in the Present’, in the context of the programme 'Unraveling the cocoon of memory: Women’s Narratives in a Fading World', funded by The Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative, 18 December 2022
‘The Magic Finger’, interactive project for primary school students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the First Experimental School of Thessaloniki on December 15, 2022
‘Much Ado about Nothing’, interactive project for adult students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the Second Chance School of Diavata Prison on December 13, 2022
‘Πολύ κακό για το τίποτα’ Θεατρικό εργαστήρι για τους μαθητές του Σχολείου Δεύτερης Ευκαιρίας των Φυλακών Διαβατών Θεσσαλονίκης. Το εργαστήρι σχεδιάστηκε στο πλαίσιο του μαθήματος ‘Λογοτεχνία, Τέχνες & Πολιτισμός στην Εκπαίδευση’ και πραγματοποιήθηκε στις 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2022 από φοιτήτριες και φοιτητές που συμμετείχαν στο μάθημα
‘I want you to hit me’: Φύλo. Δράσεις. Αντιδράσεις, εργαστήρι εν κινήσει, Οργάνωση: ομάδα RADix Τμήματος Αγγλικής, 7 Απρίλη 2022
‘How Absurd Are We?’, interactive workshop for adult students devised by students from my MA class on ‘Literature in Education’, 3 June 2021
‘Exploring Master-Slave Relationships through Shakespeare’s The Tempest’, interactive workshop for the 2nd-year Gymnasium class of Epanomi High School, devised by students from my MA class on ‘Literature in Education’, 3 June 2021
‘Playing with Fear: Oscar Wilde’s “The Canterville Ghost”’, interactive workshop for the 6th-grade students of the Experimental School of Evosmos, devised by students from my MA class on ‘Literature in Education’, 1 June 2021
‘Exploring Diversity through Brecht’s The Jewish Wife’, interactive workshop for adult students devised by students from my MA class on ‘Literature in Education’, 28 May 2021
‘Expressionism in the Theater: The Glass Menagerie’, interactive digital workshop for students of the Athens School of Fine Arts, devised by students from my MA class on ‘Literature in Education’, 27 May 2021
‘Revolution & Poetry: An Alternative Class’, open workshop in the park for university students, organized by the Student Association of the School of English, AUTh, 26 May 2021
‘Revolution & Poetry: An Alternative Class’, ανοιχτό μάθημα στα γρασίδια της Νέας Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής, 26 Μάη 2021
‘Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice: Is this Love?’, interactive digital workshop for the 1st-year Lykeion Class of Hortiatis High School, 16 February 2021
'Αυτοί & οι άλλες’, Διαδραστική συζήτηση για την κουλτούρα του βιασμού σε σχέση με την λογοτεχνία και τα social media, με την Αργυρώ Μαντόγλου, ARTENS Festival, 18 Δεκεμβρίου 2020
Τι ακριβώς φορούσες;’: Διαδικτυακό διαδραστικό εργαστήρι για την κουλτούρα του βιασμού, σε συνεργασία με την Επιτροπή Ισότητας των Φύλων του ΑΠΘ, 27 Νοεμβρίου 2020
The Magic Finger: Collective Storytelling in EFL Classes’, training seminar for teachers of English in primary & secondary education, organized by the Association of State School English Teachers of Northern Greece, 19 November 2020
Πρόσκληση σε τσάι: αφηγήσεις & επαναφηγήσεις της κουλτούρας του βιασμού, Βιωματικό εργαστήρι στο πλαίσιο του εορτασμού της μέρας της γυναίκας, σε συνεργασία με την Επιτροπή Ισότητας των Φύλων του ΑΠΘ και το Εργαστήρι Αφηγηματικής Έρευνας του Τμήματος Αγγλικής Γλώσσας & Φιλολογία, 6 Mαρτίου 2020
‘Girls Babble, Tattle, Prattle … Boys Talk’: Experimenting with Poetry, Language and Gender in the EFL Class, training seminar for teachers of English in primary & secondary education, organized by the Association of State School English Teachers of Northern Greece, February 5, 2020
Member of the Gender and Equality Committee of AUTh, 2019-
‘Alex in Name-It-What-You-Like-Land’, interactive project for adult students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the Second Chance School of Diavata Prison on December 13, 2019
‘Rhinoceros’, interactive project for first-year university students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to Dr Ristani’s class ‘Introduction to Literature’ on December 18, 2019
‘Alice in ChristmasLand’, interactive project for primary school students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the 8th Elementary School of Neapoli on December 19, 2019
‘Όνειρο καλοκαιρινής νύχτας (η αρχή και η μέση σε λίγα λεπτά)’, βιωματικό εργαστήρι για μαθητές & μαθήτριες 11-16 χρονών, Δημοτική Βιβλιοθήκη Ερμιόνης, 30 Ιουλίου 2019 ‘Midsummer Night’s Dream (the beginning and the middle in brief), experiential workshop for 11-16 year-old students, Municipal Library of Ermioni, July 30, 2019
‘Exploring Gender Roles in the EFL Classroom through Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale: Drama Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education’, organized by the Macedonian Teachers of English Association in Serres, April 15, 2019
Experiential Workshop on Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, State Theater of Northern Greece, December 16, 2018
‘The Winter’s Tale’, interactive project for adult students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the School of Second Chance in Evosmos on December 20, 2018
‘Rudolph’s Red Runny Nose’, interactive project for primary school students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to the 15th Elementary School of Evosmos on December 13, 2018
‘The Lesson’, interactive project for first-year university students, devised by students from my class on ‘Literature, Arts and Culture in Education’ – the project was carried out during our visit to Dr Ristani’s class ‘Introduction to Literature’ on December 12, 2018
Book presentation of Argiro Mantoglou’s Σώμα στη βιτρίνα at the International Book Fair of Thessaloniki, May 2018
Book presentation of the Greek translation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando at the International Book Fair of Thessaloniki, May 2018
‘Christmas with Grinch’, interactive project with 3rd- and 4rth-year students from my class on Realism and students from the 1st Elementary School of Nea Mihaniona on December 21, 2017
‘Playing with Poetry’, Seminar for teachers of English in primary and secondary education, after invitation by the School Counselor of Eastern Thessaloniki and Chalkidiki, November 6, 2017, Thessaloniki
‘“Be not afeard’: How to Invite Shakespeare to your class!” Seminar for members of the Association of English Teachers in Public Education in Imathia, February 21, 2017, Veria
‘Teaching with Literature and Drama’, Seminar for members of Tesol Macedonia Thrace Northern Greece, January 15, 2017
Διοργάνωση Επιμορφωτικής Ημερίδας με τίτλο: ‘Εκπαίδευση, μετακίνηση και διαπολιτισμικότητα’, 14 Ιανουαρίου 2017
‘“Μυρωδιές ηδονής και οδύνης”: Παιχνίδι με τον φόβο μέσα από την Τρικυμία του Shakespeare’, βιωματικό εργαστήρι για εκπαιδευτικούς A΄βάθμιας & Β΄βάθμιας εκπαίδευσης, διημερίδα - αφιέρωμα στον Shakespeare που οργάνωσε το Καλλιτεχνικό Σχολείο Θεσσαλονίκης, 16 Δεκεμβρίου 2016
‘“Sweet Airs that Give Delight and Hurt Not”: Playing with Fear in Shakespeare’s Tempest’, Drama Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education’, 2-day Symposium on Shakespeare organized by the Art School of Thessaloniki, December 16, 2016
‘To φύλο και η κατασκευή του: από το Ορλάντο της Woolf στην Judith Butler και από την Butler σε εμάς’, συζήτηση και βιωματικό εργαστήρι, 4o Φεστιβάλ σεξουαλικότητας ΑΠΘ, ΣΘΕ, 21 Μαΐου 2016 ‘Constructing Gender: From Woolf’s Orlando to Judith Butler and from Butler to Us’, discussion and drama workshop, 4th Sexuality Festival AUTh, Faculty of Science, May 21, 2016
‘Οι μαύρες τρύπες του Shakespeare: βιωματικό εργαστήρι για καθηγητές/καθηγήτριες A΄βάθμιας & Β΄βάθμιας εκπαίδευσης’, διημερίδα - αφιέρωμα στον Shakespeare που οργάνωσε η Μακεδονική Ένωση Εκπαιδευτικών Αγγλικής Σερρών, Σέρρες, 16 Απριλίου 2016
‘Shakespeare’s Black Holes: Drama Workshop for Teachers in Primary & Secondary Education’, 2-day Symposium on Shakespeare organized by the Macedonian Teachers of English Association in Serres, April 16, 2016
Διοργάνωση Επιμορφωτικής Ημερίδας με τίτλο: ‘Λογοτεχνία, Τέχνη και Τεχνολογία στην Εκπαίδευση’, 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2015
Όπως μας αρέσει: Από την Αγγλία του Shakespeare στην Ελλάδα του σήμερα’, διοργάνωση Θεατρικού Εργαστηρίου για μαθήτριες και μαθητές λυκείου με τη συμμετοχή πρωτοετών φοιτητριών και φοιτητών του Τμήματος Αγγλικής που πραγματοποιήθηκε στο πλαίσιο του προγράμματος ‘ΑΠΘ την Κυριακή’
‘As We Like It: From Shakespeare’s England to Greece Today’, organizing of a Theater Workshop for high school students with the participation of first year students of the English Department as part of the program ‘The Aristotle University Open on Sundays’
Co-organizing of the international conference: ‘rethinking democracy in literature, language & culture’, May 15-17, 2015
Member of the Gender and Equality Committee of AUTh, 2015-17
President of the Hellenic Association for English Studies (HASE), 2014
Διοργάνωση Επιμορφωτικής Ημερίδας με τίτλο: ‘Λογοτεχνία και Τέχνη στην Εκπαίδευση’, 13 Δεκεμβρίου 2014
President of the Hellenic Association for English Studies (HASE), 2014-
‘Tempest Workshop’, a theatre workshop in which the students of the Lit 9-489 course presented to a small group of participants alternative stagings of Shakespeare’s Tempest and explored themes of the play though games and improvisations, May 28, 2014
‘Μένουμε, επιμένουμε και χορεύουμε! Περηφάνια και Προκατάληψη 200 χρόνια μετά’, ομιλία και χορευτική εκδήλωση με φοιτήτριες του Τμήματος Αγγλικής στο πανελλήνιο συνέδριο PALSO, August 29, 2013
Production of the play Barker + Bald: 4 + 2 αντικείμενα υποδούλωσης (4 + 2 Objects of Submission), June 8 & 9, 2013
Organizing of 'Hard Times, Athena!', a creative protest against Athena I plan, March 8, 2013
Book presentation of Argiro Mantoglou’s Λευκή ρεβάνς, Ιanos bookshop, January 17, 2013
Organizing of a project on Jane Austen for the students of the Art High School of Thessaloniki, January 11, 2013
Organizing of 'Don't Like It? Change It!', September 27, 2012, a poetry happening with students from the Bald Theatre and the poetry group 'Breathe in Experience, Breathe out Poetry', in cooperation with the ‘100,000 POETS FOR CHANGE’ organization in California
Award of ‘Innovative Use of Internet Tools and Social Groups in Teaching’, University Research Institute of Applied Communication, Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, University of Athens, and presentation in the one-day Symposium ‘mathisi 2.0’, Athens, June 27, 2012
Organizing of a Poetry Night with the first year students of the Poetry Workshop, May 24, 2012
Organizing of a one-day event on Charles Dickens in Serres, on 28th April 2012, in cooperation with the State English Teachers' Union of Serres
Production of the play Alternative Dickens: Tales of Two Cities (Ντίκενς αλλιώς: Ιστορίες δύο πόλεων), presented on May 29 & 30 in Thessaloniki & May 31, 2012 in Serres (http://epp.web.auth.gr/?p=662, http://www.typosthes.gr/culture/28377-2012-05-18-18-39-47, http://www.facebook.com/events/385637691486507/, http://englishteachersinserres.blogspot.gr/2012/06/31-05-2012.html, www.balddickens2012.blogspot.com)
Production of an adaptation of Shakespeare's As You Like It with the first year students of the Drama Workshop, presented at Pinewood American International School, February 20, 2012
Co-organizing of the international conference: ‘Charles Dickens: Births, Marriages, Deaths’, October 19-20, 2012
Co-organizing of the one-day Symposium ‘Gender in the Humanities’, January 15, 2012
Co-organizing of the one-day Symposium: ‘Rethinking the Novel’, April 23, 2010
Vice-President of the Hellenic Association for English Studies (HASE), 2008-2014
Secretary of the Hellenic Association for English Studies (HASE), 2002-2008
Book presentation of Argiro Mantoglou’s ΧΩΡΑΣΩΜΑΤΩΝ/Bodyland, Athens, Eleftheroudakis Bookshop, 2006
Co-organizing of the international conference: ‘The Flesh Made Tex: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era’, May 13-18, 2003
Recorded interview by N. Volonakis in ‘Technopolis’ ΕΤ3 (Greek Television 3), concerning the International Conference ‘The Flesh Made Tex: Bodies, Theories, Cultures in the Post-Millennial Era’, May 8, 2003
Advisor of the Bald Theatre 2002-03 and director of ‘Lysistrata: Rehearsal for Peace’ (participation in ‘Lysistrata Project’, March 3, 2003)
Recorded interview by L. Plakidas in ΕΤ3 (Greek Television 3) concerning the participation of Bald Theatre in Lysistrata Project, February 28, 2003
Book presentation of Argiro Mantoglou’s Βλέφαρα με Τατουάζ, Athens, Eleftheroudakis Bookshop, Thessaloniki Ianos Bookshop, 2002
Co-organizing of the one-day Symposium: ‘Modernism/Postmodernism’, May 1999