School of English - AUTh

Theodora Patrona

Laboratory Teaching Staff - Department of English Literature and Culture

308 Γ | +30 2310 997328 | tpatrona@enl.auth.gr
Office hours: WE 09:00-11:00(in the office during exams (2-20/6) and only by appointment/also available for zoom appointments)

Theodora Patrona received her Ph.D.  from the School of English at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2011.  Dr. Patrona has published numerous articles and chapters on Greek American and Italian American literature and film. 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 2024-2025)