Tatiani Rapatzikou is Professor at the department of American Literature and Culture. She holds an M.A. (1996) from Lancaster University in Contemporary Literary Studies and a Ph.D. (2001) in Contemporary American Literature from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England. For her Ph.D. research, she was funded by the Board of Greek State Scholarships Foundation (I.K.Y). Also, she received during her Ph.D. studies funding, as is the case with the BAAS Short Term Travel Award (2000) for her research trip to the U.S. and Canada, and the Arthur Miller Centre Award (2000) for her bibliographical research. In summer 2009, she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the M.I.T.
Comparative Media Studies program; in Spring 2012 she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the
Program in Literature at Duke University, U.S.; in Winter 2016 she was a Visiting Research Scholar at the
Department of English at York University, Toronto, Canada; in winter 2022 she was a Visiting Research Scholar at University of Alberta (Augustana Campus) and York University (Toronto. She is the coordinator of the project "
Urban Environments in Transition" (Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund-International Competition 2012 with the participation of the Fulbright Foundation). She is also the co-director of the
American Studies Resource Portal,the co-editor of
ECHOES (the online creative writing magazine of School of English), and the coordinator of the
Mutlimodal Research & Reading Group. She is also a member of the General Editor team of the online, open source, blind reviewed and DOAJ sealed
Ex-Centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media hosted by the Prothiki AUTh Library and Information Centre. For the period between 2019-2022, she was the director of the Digital Humanities Lab
"Psifis" of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In 2020, she was awarded a Fellowship by the
Eccles Center for American Studies for her research in the British Library (U.K.) on contemporary American literary production and digitality. Since the beginning of 2022-to the present day, she's a
Fulbright Greece Alumni Outreach Ambassador for AUTh. She is also academically responsible for a number of AUTh
international and
Erasmus+ agreements. She teaches courses and supervises research projects in 20th and 21st century American fiction and poetry with emphasis placed on the following research areas: Contemporary American Literature and Culture; Modernist & Postmodernist Poetry; Postmodern/After Postmodern Fiction; Born Digital Literature; Book Print/Digital Materialities; the Technological Uncanny (with emphasis on William Gibson's writing).
