- I hold a BA (Classics, Athens), a Master's (Modern Languages, Oxford) and a DPhil (Film and Languages, Oxford). In 2... moreI hold a BA (Classics, Athens), a Master's (Modern Languages, Oxford) and a DPhil (Film and Languages, Oxford). In 2012-2014 I was Stavros Niarchos Postdoctoral Fellow in Film at Columbia University (2012-13 spent in residency in Reid Hall). I have taught subjects as diverse as film, literature and political science at Oxford, SciencesPo and Columbia. Academic interests: film adaptations and authorship, transnational aspects of film, Greek and European cinema, Greek crisis and the visual, tourism and film. I am the Managing editor for Visual Arts, Design, Fashion and Textile journals, Routledge, Tayloredit
Article [in Greek] submitted to the Journal Kaboom, issue 6, December 2020. The article explores three films - Toni Erdmann, Parasite, Square - and how their protagonists struggle to fight for a better future in a neoliberal world.
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Contemporary Greek Film Cultures From 1990 to the Present. Edited by Tonia Kazakopoulou and Mikela Fotiou. Bern: Peter Lang, 2017.
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The article explores cinematic and photographic images of the ‘Greek crisis’ in order to show how the visual can render the crisis both visible and invisible, clear and opaque, normalized and contested. Greek new wave cinema, iconic... more
The article explores cinematic and photographic images of the ‘Greek crisis’ in order to show how the visual can render the crisis both visible and invisible, clear and opaque, normalized and contested. Greek new wave cinema, iconic repetitive images of suffering in the center of Athens, and the group of visual artists Depression Era are discussed in this context. I argue that the images in focus articulate the crisis and render it visible. At the same time, however, they challenge one's expectations of what the crisis is and how normalized it has become. I argue that these images can encourage civic responsibility and a dialogue about freedom and democracy in the current predicament.
