Despoina Feleki is Post-doctoral Researcher in the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She also serves as appointed School Principal in Greece. She completed her M.A. studies in European Literature and Culture and her Ph.D. in Contemporary American Culture in the School of English (AUTh). Feleki is Fulbright alumna (Salzburg Global Seminar grantee). She teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses and organizes workshops on fiction and pedagogy, focusing on the intersections between textuality and digitality and on how these affect literary and educational practices. Her other academic and research interests include Digital Age Civics, Young Adult Literature, Popular Culture, Fandom and Videogame Studies. Feleki has been a member of the MM Group (Multimodal Reading and Research Group of the School of English, AUTh) and involved in multiple research projects exploring narrative possibilities and pushing the boundaries between physical and digital space. Her monograph, entitled “Stephen King in the New Millennium: Gothic Mediations on New Writing Materialities,” was out by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2018. She is the co-editor of the Special Issue for the HELAAS online open access journal Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media under the title “Popular Culture in a New Media Age: Trends and Transitions.” Some of her published articles appear in Ex-centric Narratives: Journal of Anglophone Literature, Culture and Media (HELAAS), in GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism: Digital Literary Production and the Humanities (AUTh), Writing Technologies by Nottingham Trent University, Authorship, the Journal of the University of Ghent, AmLit- American Literatures, University of Graz.
Feleki is currently interested in highlighting the interconnections between education, active citizenship and community building that can intersect and bifurcate on social media platforms by using examples inspired by the wealth of contemporary American literature and culture.
