Echoes from the Antipodes
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EDITORIAL Theodora Patrona received her Ph.D. from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011. She was awarded the AIHA memorial fellowship for her original doctoral thesis. She has received the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Research Fellowship twice (2013, 2022) and was CHS Harvard Visiting Scholar for 2022-23. Dr. Patrona has published numerous articles and chapters on Greek American and Italian American literature 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 taught at the Aristotle University and the Hellenic Mediterranean University at Heraklion, Crete (ELMEPA) and she is interested in the interweaving of identity and gender. |
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Evdoxia Theodorou is an undergraduate student in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Arts and more specifically poetry, is a means of expression for her but also an opportunity to explore her inner self and its complexities from a creative perspective. One day she aspires to effectively connect poetry with the learning environment in a way that will enable students to experience the discovery of knowledge along with the discovery of their own artistic nature. |
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Anisa Rozani is an undergraduate student in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is passionate about reading books and is quite interested in ancient myths. This is her first official publication, but she wishes for more to come since her biggest dream is to become an author. |
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Odysseas Panatsias is an undergraduate student in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Among his academic interests are audiovisual and literary translation, with a particular focus on the intersection of translation and gender studies. His love for poetry lies not in writing but in reading and listening, a passion further nurtured by the poetry of PJ Sauerteig. Sauerteig's artistry, both in his written poetry and his music project Slow Dakota – where spoken word often intertwines with music – stands as a personal favourite, deeply resonating with him. |
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Marianna Marmaridou is an undergraduate student pursuing her Bachelor of Arts in English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. From an early age, she has had a strong interest in dramatic writing and cinema, as well as in history, spirituality, and literature. She is particularly passionate about Medieval, Gothic, and Romantic art and literature. She also hopes to explore additional academic interests in the future, including LGBTQIA studies, intersectional feminist studies, cinematic writing, and theatre studies. |
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Eleni Maria Argyriou is a fourth-year student in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is particularly interested in film theory and gender studies. She has also developed a passion for creative writing as a form of expression and as a way to deal with unsettling emotions and especially anxiety. Her writings mostly focus on coming of age and female experiences. |
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Georgia Kalampouka is a third-year undergraduate student at the School of English Language and Literature. She emerged in the world of literature at a young age and is particularly keen on postmodernist narratives. She has also developed a fascination with her translation courses and would like to pursue a career in this field. |
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Zoe Tsialta has graduated from the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is currently working as an English teacher and her interests revolve around Special Education and the power of literature in pedagogical procedures. She is also interested in the domains of immigration and diaspora and the way identity searching and unresolved trauma can create and shape literature. |
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Savvina Moutafidou is a graduate from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, anti-colonial archives and practices, politics of protest, as well as decolonial feminism(s). She is interested in articulating (anti)colonial realities of Greekness, often inspired by anglophone and francophone voices. Similar questions can be traced to her BA’s thesis “Queer (Dis)orientations: Spatiotemporal Configurations of Black-British Trauma in Jay Bernard’s Surge”. |
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Nefeli Soel-Spandoni is an aspiring author and interpreter, on her way to graduating from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is fluent in Greek, English and Farsi. Her stories and characters are as inspired by the literary texts she consumes as they are by her own involvement and interaction with immigrant and local ethnic communities in Greece and worldwide. In many ways, these stories are a love letter to the people who have welcomed her, and allowed her to experience their customs, their celebrations and, more importantly, their daily lives. |
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Rosa Lillian Cook is a student at the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and she also works as an English teacher. She is interested in feminist and migrant literature, particularly how these stories explore oidentity, belonging, and cultural displacement. Growing up bilingual, Rosa appreciates how language shapes our understanding of the world, as a lens to interpret our identities and experiences. In her teaching, Rosa incorporates narratives, helping students engage with diverse cultures and perspectives since for her storytelling fosters empathy . Beyond academics, Rosa enjoys a good book, battling monsters in video games, and binge-watching crime series with her chonky cat, Zoey. |
