Testimonial Writing and la facultad

	EDITORIAL Dr. Sophia Emmanouilidou received her Ph.D. from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, with distinctions in 2003, and on a full scholarship from the Foundation of National Scholarships in Greece (IKY). She was a Fulbright grantee at the University of Texas, Austin, and the John F. Kennedy Institute (JFKI) for North American Studies, Freie Universität of Berlin. She has published several articles on Chicana/o literature and identity-focused theories. She has lectured at the University of the Aegean, Department of Social Anthropology and History; the University of the Peloponnese, Department of History and Culture, and the TEI of the Ionian Islands, Department of Environment Technologists. Her research interests include border cultures, identity studies, narrative theory and ecocriticism. In 2020, she co-edited with Dr. Sezgin Toska the volume Transnational Interconnections of Nature Studies and the Environmental Humanities.
If History could set me Free
	Anastasia Miskaki holds a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in English and American Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her academic research focuses on Romanticism, the relationship between literature and history, and literary forgery. She currently lives in Thessaloniki where she also works as a teacher of English.
Our painful world
	Effrosyni Pappa holds a BA in English Language and Literature and an MA in English and American Studies from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She is 25 years old, lives in Thessaloniki and works as an English language teacher. Her research interests include Renaissance literature with a focus on drama and Shakespeare. She engages in creative writing, with her latest work being an attempt at a play.
Pilgrims of Babylon
	Nathanailidou Eirini is a graduate from the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She has recently completed her M.A. in “English and American Studies” at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her interests include Gothic and Romantic Studies, Cultural and Identity Studies, Irish Studies, academic and creative writing, as well as drama.
Travelling
	My name is Vasileia Moschou. Literature has been the definitive force in my life for as long as I can remember. Being equally interested in the humanities and the sciences, literature designated my choice to pursue my studies in the Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in both BA and MA levels. Prompted by the realization that literature is present in an array of media, I embarked in a creative journey by attempting to write poetry and theatrical plays while participating in theatrical and cinematic productions.
Writing my Future Behind the Iron Gates
	My name is Aristeidis Kleiotis and I currently occupy myself as a creative writer, academic researcher, field researcher at Istorima, as well as secretary at the Paraplegic Association of Drama (spnd). Following my undergraduate studies at the School of English of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, I recently graduated with an MA in English and American studies from the same school. Throughout my studies I have immersed myself in a wide range of academic fields, from translation to linguistics, pedagogy, disability studies, as well as British and American arts. However, creative writing and literary analysis with emphasis placed on queer-crip art have remained my main foci. Drawing inspiration from queer-crip writers’ life-writing craft, I experiment with life-writing in my poetry first to record personal experience and then to negotiate, discuss and communicate it.
A Place Of One’s Own
	My name is Christine Koukourava. After studying Greek Literature with specialization in modern poetry and fiction a long way back, I continued my literary explorations with a BA and an MA in the School of English at Aristotle University researching in various areas of English and American literature. Although the field of postmodern American poetry has overshadowed other interests of mine, I still regard literature to be a much larger and intrinsically complicated nexus of relations among texts, writers, poets, movements and historical periods. What fascinates me is to detect connections that challenge the multiplicity of echoes arising from world literature, and how specific realizations resulting from a vast depository of readings reach out and deepen even further our understanding of individual ethnic literatures. On the whole, I am mostly drawn to modernist and postmodernist American poetry, 20th century Anglophone fiction and comparative literature.