ABOUT US
Nice to Meet You
If you are wondering who the administators of this literature blog really are, you have just clicked on the correct button!
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We are four undegraduate students of the English Language and Literature School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece. We are fourth-year students and we all attend the American Urban Spaces and Identity Course which is the actual reason this blog came alive! Our names are Kioura Eleni, Bogdanou Aikaterini, Papadopoulou Athina and Ferentinou Ioanna and our supervisor is Professor Tatiani Rapatzikou.
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Our passion for creative projects and for research on literature during our academic years led us also to the construction of this very site. What you read in this site is definitely the outcome of this combination.
ELENI KIOURA
From the first day of primary school, Eleni Kioura was fascinated by the idea of teaching, so she decided to teach her friends and cousins every afternoon despite their willing to play as all children normally do in their free time. Her early aptitude to teaching and her love for the English language and culture led her to the School of English of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece where she has almost qualified for being a professional English teacher as she is a senior undergraduate student.
Moreover, she is also interested in linguistic research. In the context of her senior thesis, she is currently conducting her research on the phonology of the Vlach dialect as she comes from Metsovo, a picturesque and Vlach-speaking town close to Ioannina, in Epirus. Despite being a linguistics lover, she avidly reads literature since she acquired her reading skills as a child. Eleni is convinced that literature can be such entertaining a way to acquire a foreign or a second language effectively.
AIKATERINI BOGDANOU
Bogdanou Katerina is student of English Language and Literature in the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. It was her dream to study in the aforementioned department. Katerina Bogdanou loves English language and she has also acquired Italian language influenced by her origin from Corfu. She loves reading contemporary American and British poetry as well as academic papers with linguistic content. In her perception, the knowledge and the hidden meanings found in scientific fields of literature and linguistics are characterized by humanitarian value and have application in our reality and are able to change our perspectives and cultivate human beings in social, educational and moral level.
ATHINA PAPADOPOULOU
Athina Papadopoulou is a fourth-year student at the department of English language in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is an avid reader since childhood and has taken writing as a hobby, with the ambition of one day being published. One of her poems was published in the Experimental Narratives International Symposium in 2019, and it was then translated for the Poetry Day of 2020. Her academic interests are the blend of literature and linguistics to inspire learners to enjoy reading. She wishes to create a welcoming environment for all, especially for individuals with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, and to highlight that literature can bring everyone together.
IOANNA FERENTINOU
Ioanna Ferentinou is a 4th year student at the department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Ioanna is fascinated with British twentieth-drama, especially with plays of the Beckettian and post-Beckettian period, as well as with Contemporary American literature (dating from 1945 to 2000). She is also interested in Applied Linguistics as far as the field of education is concerned and has recently completed an one year seminar in Special Education and Advancement of Students’ Psychological Health in Class. Ioanna is fluently speaking German, has a basic knowledge of Italian language and has currently started learning French. In her free time, she likes to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s literature and paint on canvas.