June 2020

18/06/2020

Olga Akroyd, PhD

Having completed a rather ambidextrous degree in English and Russian (BA Hons) at Queen Mary, University of London in 2009,  Olga  went on to do a Master’s degree in Russian and East European Studies at St Antony’s College, Oxford, completing an academic thesis on the significance of archetypes in 20th century Russian literature. Although her […]

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18/06/2020

Leila Salem Aouadi, PhD

Leila Aouadi is an associate professor in the department of English Literature at the University of Tunis. She studied English language and Literature and moved to the UK to pursue her postgraduate studies in women’s literature in English. Her engagement with comparative literature spans three main categories: Middle Eastern women’s writings, Victorian literature, predominantly George […]

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18/06/2020

John Dean, PhD

As tenured professor at the Universities of Paris, Strasbourg and Versailles, France, Dr. Dean’s fields of teaching and research have been in Cultural History, Cross-cultural Communications and American Studies. Ph.D. from the University of London, Dr. Dean has also taught regularly in the School of Mass Communications and Journalism, University of Colorado, Boulder and at […]

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18/06/2020

Iwona Kościelecka, MA

Iwona Kościelecka is a Ph.D. candidate at Faculty of Philology, at University of Gdansk in Poland. She is assigned to the Institute of Culture Studies, Institute of Film and Audiovisual Culture and he dissertation is entitled: The Notion of Visual Pleasure in Film Theory and Practice: Laura Mulvey Revisited. She has an MA  by the […]

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18/06/2020

Gregory O. Hall, PhD

In fall 2016, Dr. Hall joined the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky. He previously served as Head of the Department of Political Science and Director of the International Studies Program at Morehouse College. Dr. Hall has held appointments at institutions both in the United States and abroad, to […]

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09/06/2020

Giannis Papadopoulos, PhD

Yannis G.S. Papadpoulos obtained his PhD in History from Panteion University in Athens (2008). He taught at the universities of Panteion, Peloponnese, Vechta and the Hellenic Open University. He is currently a visiting professor at the University of Brasilia. His research focuses on immigration, transnationalism, ethnicity and integration of immigrants, immigration and development. His current […]

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09/06/2020

Caroline Schroeter, PhD

Dr Caroline Schroeter is currently holding a position as a College Language Teacher at the German Department at UCC. She has recently been awarded a PhD degree in American Studies and Film with no correction at the School of English and Film and Screen Media at UCC. Before her PhD, she received a Master of […]

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09/06/2020

Anna Savitskaya, MA

Anna Savitskaya is a doctoral researcher at the English Department of the University of Göttingen. She studied English Philology in her home country, Kazakhstan, was an exchange student at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland and received an MA in English Philology at the University of Göttingen. During her Master’s studies, her research focused on transcultural […]

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21/11/2019

Konstantinos D. Karatzas, PhD

Dr. Konstantinos D. Karatzas is the director of GIRES. He is specialized in twentieth-century international political history, with a particular interest in African American history and political and racial violence. He holds a BA in Russian and East European Studies by the Democritus University of Thrace in Greece where he was introduced to Soviet and [...]
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