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Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
Associate Professor; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences
Education Credentials: Ph.D.
Joined 懂色帝: 2014
Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis is Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program and associate professor in the Department of Humanities, where she teaches literature and writing courses, and researches postmodern fiction. Her research interests focus on metafiction and narrative theory in both adult and children’s literature. Athanasiou-Krikelis has presented at various conferences both in the U.S. and abroad on topics such as meta-autobiographies (autobiographies that subvert the conventions of the genre) and the metafictional picture book. Her articles have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, such as Narrative, International Research in Children鈥檚 Literature, Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children鈥檚 Literature, The Lion and the Unicorn, Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
Athanasiou-Krikelis holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and a master鈥檚 degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Teacher鈥檚 College, Columbia University. She obtained her bachelor鈥檚 degree in Linguistics and Comparative Literature from Queens College.
- 鈥淭he Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath鈥檚 Children鈥檚 Fiction,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2021).
- 鈥淢apping the Metafictional Picturebook,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Narrative, The Ohio State University Press, vol. 28, no. 3, October 2020, pp. 355-374.
- 鈥淲ho Is the Turk in Greek Children鈥檚 and Young Adult Fiction,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;International Research in Children鈥檚 Literature, Edinburgh University Press, vol. 13, no. 2, July 2020, pp. 76-91.
- 鈥淧icturebook Retellings of 鈥楾he Three Little Pigs:鈥� Postmodern Parody, Intertextuality, and Metafiction,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 173-193.
- 鈥淒efining Children鈥檚 Metafiction: Authority and Power: The Peculiar Case of Ignatius and Other Picturebooks by Eugene Trivizas,鈥� Special Issue: East Meets West: Literature for Children and Youth in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children鈥檚 Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018 pp. 1-19.
- 鈥淎uthorship and Readership in Emily Gravett鈥檚 Metafictional Picturebooks.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Lion and the Unicorn, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol 56, no. 2, 2018, pp. 43-51.
- 鈥淭wisting the Story: Meta-autobiographical Fiction in Margarita Karapanou鈥檚 Rien ne va plus and Amanda Michalopoulou鈥檚 螛伪 螇胃蔚位伪,鈥� Journal of Modern Greek Studies, John Hopkins University Press. May 2016.
- 鈥淢etafiction in the Post-Technological Age: The People of Paper and MetaMaus,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;,鈥� Ed. Christopher K. Brooks, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013.
- Review of Amanda Michalopoulou鈥檚 God鈥檚 Wife, published by World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma, January 2021.
- of Theodora Patrona鈥檚 Return Narrative: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth Century Greek American and Italian American Literature, published by Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, Spring 2018.
- Review of Melissa Terras鈥檚 Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children鈥檚 Literature published by Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2019.
- ,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The National Herald, May 2019.
- 鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Economist Careers Network, 2019.
- ,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;The Economist Careers Network, 2019.
- WRIT 100: Basic Writing and Reading
- WRIT 110: Basic Writing and Reading for International Students
- FCWR 111: Foundations of College Composition for International Students
- FCWR 161: Foundations of Research Writing for International Students
- ICLT 304: Children鈥檚 Literature
- ICLT 311: What Was Modernism?
- ICLT 327: Literature of Initiation
- ICLT 300: Postmodern Fiction
- ICLT 300: The Graphic Novel