School of English - AUTh

Theodora Patrona

Laboratory Teaching Staff - Department of English Literature and Culture

Theodora Patrona teaches literary courses  in the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  Dr. Patrona has published numerous articles and chapters on the Anglophone Greek and Italian Diaspora literature. 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 co-edited the special section of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (JMGS) on obscure Greek-American women (forthcoming October 2025) and the special issue of Diasporic Italy on the father in Italian American literature and culture (forthcoming December 2025). She has taught at the Aristotle University and the Hellenic Mediterranean University at Heraklion, Crete (ELMEPA) and she is interested in diaspora and identity issues in the Anglophone world.

TEACHING (ACADEMIC YEAR 2025-2026)