Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis
Associate Professor, English
New York Institute of Technology,
Manhattan, New York
Current Position
New York Institute of Technology, New York, 2020-Present
Associate Professor, Department of English, Manhattan Campus
Director of Interdisciplinary Studies
Education
Ph.D. Comparative Literature. The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2013
M.Phil. Comparative Literature The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2012
M.A. Comparative Literature The Graduate Center, City University of New York, 2009
M.A. Teaching English to Students of Other Languages (TESOL) Teachers College, Columbia University, 2006
B.A. Comparative Literature & Applied Linguistics Magna Cum Laude, Queens College, City University of New York, 2003
Academic Employment:
Associate Professor of English Department, New York Institute of Technology, New York, Fall 2020-Present.
Assistant Professor of English Department, New York Institute of Technology, New York, Fall 2014-2020.
Adjunct Lecturer of Writing Program English Department, Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2013-2014.
Adjunct Lecturer of English Department, Saint Peter’s University, New Jersey, 2013-2014.
Adjunct Lecturer of English Department, Hunter College, City University of New York, 2007-2008.
Awards/ Grants:
“Women Writers as Fictional Characters,” Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant (ISRC), New York Institute of Technology, Spring 2020, funded.
“A Metafictional Approach to Autobiography & Otherness in Children’s Literature,” Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant (ISRC), New York Institute of Technology, Spring 2019, not funded.
“National Identity and the Other in Children’s Literature: The Case of Greece and Turkey,” Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant (ISRC), New York Institute of Technology, Spring 2018, funded.
Grants for Great Teaching, School of Arts and Sciences, New York Institute of Technology, funded, Spring 2017.
“Comparative Approaches to Children’s Literature,” Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant (ISRC), New York Institute of Technology, Spring 2017, not funded.
“Metafiction in Picture Books and Eugene Trivizas’s Metafictionality,” Institutional Support of Research and Creativity Grant (ISRC), New York Institute of Technology, Spring 2016, funded.
“Online Grammar Tutorials for International Students,” Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant (TLT), New York Institute of Technology, with Dr. Michael Uttendorfer (Co. P.I.), School of Education, Spring 2015, funded.
Wertheim Study Resident, New York Public Library, 2015-Present.
Teaching and Learning with Technology Grant (TLT), New York Institute of Technology, with Dr. Michael Uttendorfer (Co. P.I.), School of Education, Spring 2015, funded.
Teachers College Scholarship Fund, Columbia University, 2004-2005.
The Paul Zweig Memorial Award, Queens College, City University of New York, 2003-2004.
High Honors in Linguistics, Queens College, City University of New York, 2003-2004.
Highest Honors in Comparative Literature, Queens College, City University of New York, 2003-2004.
Queens College Foundation Scholarship from the Center of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Spring 2002.
Queens College Foundation Scholarship from the Center of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Spring 2001.
Work in Progress and Future Projects:
“Women Writers in Amanda Michalopoulou’s Fiction”
“Mapping the Metafictional Picturebook,” book-length
“The Other in Children’s and Young Adult Literature of Rival Nations” edited collection
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
“Mapping the Metafictional Picturebook,” Narrative, The Ohio State University Press, vol. 28, no. 3, October 2020, pp. 355-374.
“Who Is the Turk in Greek Children’s and Young Adult Fiction,” International Research in Children’s Literature, Edinburgh University Press, vol. 13, no. 2, July 2020, pp. 76-91.
“Picturebook Retellings of ‘The Three Little Pigs:’ Postmodern Parody, Intertextuality, and Metafiction.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 173-193.
“Authority and Power: The Peculiar Case of Ignatius and Other Picturebooks by Eugene Trivizas.” Special Issue: East Meets West: Literature for Children and Youth in Greece, Turkey, and Cyprus, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol 56, no. 2, 2018, pp. 43-51.
“Defining Children’s Metafiction: Authorship and Readership in Emily Gravett’s Metafictional Picturebooks.” The Lion and the Unicorn, Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018 pp. 1-19.
“Twisting the Story: Metaautobiographical Fiction in Margarita Karapanou’s Rien ne va plus and Amanda Michalopoulou’s Θα Ήθελα.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies Johns Hopkins University Press, vol. 34, no. 1, 2016, pp. 103-129.
“Speaking and Remaining Silent about the World beyond.” [SIC]: A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation. Nov. 2011.
Book Chapters:
“The Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath’s Children’s Fiction,” Forthcoming in The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath (2021).
“Metafiction in the Post-Technological Age: The Case of The People of Paper and MetaMaus.” Beyond Postmodernism: Onto the Postcontemporary. Ed. Christopher K. Brooks. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. 2013. 92-113.
Book Reviews:
Review of Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife: World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma, January 2021.
Review of Theodora Patrona Return Narrative: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature published by Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, Spring 2018.
Book-review of Melissa Terras Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2019, pp. 346-348 .
Translations:
“From ‘Mezzanine’” Chapter 1 of The Mezzanine by Nikos Kachtitsis. Translated from the Greek in collaboration with Dr. George Fragopoulos. Words without Borders. Aug. 2009.
“From ‘Mezzanine’” Chapter 11 of The Mezzanine by Nikos Kachtitsis. Translated from the Greek in collaboration with Dr. George Fragopoulos. Quarterly Conversation. Dec. 2009.
Media Appearance:
“A Salon with Author Amanda Michalopoulou in New York,” The National Herald May, 2019
“How to build GRE vocabulary with reading, apps, games and more,” The Economist Careers Network, 2019
“How to build GRE vocab through listening,” The Economist Careers Network 2019
Invited Lectures:
Guest speaker, “Literature in Times of Crises: Baroque and Its Perception,” German Consulate in New York City, organized in collaboration with the Greek Consulate, May 2019.
Invited Speaker, “Children’s Literature and Greek Postmodernism: The Case of Eugene Trivizas,” Department of European Languages and Literature and the Byzantine Center, Queens College, City University of New York, March 2017.
Conference Presentations:
“Greek Young-Adult Fiction and the Turk Other,” Modern Language Association, Toronto, Canada/Virtual Conference, January 2021.
“Women Writers as Fictional Characters in Amanda Michalopoulou’s Novels,” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, California State University, Sacramento, CA, November 2019
“The Ethnic Other in Greek Historical Fiction,” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, June 2019
“Metafictional Synergy: Text and Illustrations.” Synergy and Contradiction: How Picturebooks and Picture Books Work, Cambridge, England, UK, September 2018
“Mapping the Metafictional Picturebook.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, St. Antonio, TX, June 2018
“The Child Reading: Children’s Fiction in Greece.” Modern Language Association, New York, NY, January 2018
“Picturebooks about Books and the Act of Reading.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, November 2017
“Intertextual Retellings in Picturebooks by David Wiesner and Eugene Trivizas: Reinventing The Three Little Pigs.” Children’s Literature Association Conference, Tampa, FL, June 2017
“Children’s Literature and the Aesthetics of Greek Picturebooks.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
“Metafiction, Metalepsis, and the Postmodern Language Game in Children’s Literature.” College of English Association, Denver, CO, April 2016
“The Artist Drawing: Metafiction in Children’s Literature.” American Comparative Literature Association, Harvard University, Boston, MA, March 2016
“Eugene Trivizas: Postmodern Children’s Literature.” Modern Greek Studies Association, Atlanta, GA, October 2015
“Postmodern Metaautobiographies.” International Conference on Narrative, Chicago, IL, March 2015
“Paradox in the Contained Artwork: Blindness in Seeing and House of Leaves.” American Comparative Literature Association, University of Toronto, ON, April 2013
“Postmodern Metafiction Misconstrued.” Narrative Matters, American University of Paris, France, May 2012
“The Postmodern Qualm of Representationality.” American Comparative Literature Association, Providence, RI, March 2012
“Twisting the Story: Metaautobiographical Fiction in Margarita Karapanou’s Rien ne va plus and Amanda Michalopoulou’s Θα Ήθελα.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, New York University, NY, October 2011
“The Repudiation of the Lacanean Symbolic in Childhood: Margarta Karapanou’s Kassandra and the Wolf.” Comparative Literature Graduate Conference, Yale University, New Haven, CO, December 2010
“Cassandra’s Perversions and Inversions in Margarita Karapanou’s Novel Kassandra and the Wolf.” Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2009
“Metafictional Narrative in Amanda Michalopoulou’s Yiantes.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, October 2009
“The Picturesque Ruin.” College English Association, Pittsburg, PA, March 2009
“The Ruin: The Underground of the Past.” Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY, November 2008
“Sleeping Beauties and Princes: A Passage from Childhood to Adulthood.” College English Association, St. Louis, MO, March 2008
“Peace that Remains: The Ending of The Master and Margarita.” International Graduate Conference, University of Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WC, February 2008
“Irony in Day VII of Boccaccio’s Decameron.” Graduate Entralogos Conference, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, February 2007
“The Enchantment of Sleep.” International Literary Conference, Kent State University, Ashtabula, OH, April 2006
Panels Organized:
The Other in Narratives of Rival Nations. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, Toronto, Canada, January 2021
Pictures and Metafiction. College of English Association, Denver, CO, April 2016
Twists and Turns in Contemporary Greece: Culture, Literature, and Identity. Modern Language Association, Philadelphia, PA, January 2017
Panels Chaired:
Moderator at Source, NYIT’s Student Conference, New York, NY, April 2019
Complicating Sexual Desire in YA Romance, Children’s Literature Association Conference, Indianapolis, IN, June 2019
Myth and History in Greek Literature from Cavafy to ‘the Crisis,’ Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Stockton University, Galloway, NJ, November 2017
Boarders and Frontier: Explorations of the Past, Children’s Literature Association, Tampa, FL, June 2017
Teaching at New York Institute of Technology:
New York Institute of Technology, New York, Fall 2014 – Present
Assistant Professor, English Department
NYIT Courses Taught:
| WRIT 100 | Basic Writing and Reading | 4 Credits |
| WRIT 110 | Basic Writing and Reading for International Students | 5 Credits |
| FCWR 111 | Foundations of College Composition for International Students | 3 Credits |
| FCWR 161 | Foundations of Research Writing for International Students | 3 Credits |
| ICLT 304 | Children’s Literature | 3 Credits |
| ICLT 311 | What Was Modernism? | 3 Credits |
| ICLT 327 | Literature of Initiation | 3 Credits |
| ICLT 333 | Postmodern Fiction | 3 Credits |
| ICLT 300 | The Graphic Memoire: Telling One’s Life Story | 3 Credits |
Service to New York Institute of Technology:
Departmental:
Fall Open House, Interdisciplinary Studies, Virtual, Spring 2020
Preview Day, English Department Representative, Spring 2019
Fall Open House, English Department Representative, Fall 2018
Fall Open House, English Department Representative, Fall 2017
Preview Day, English Department Representative, Spring 2017
Fall Open House, English Department Representative, Fall 2016
Grammar Workshops for International Students, Spring 2016, Spring 2017
Reading Workshops for International Students, Spring 20216, Spring 2017
Grading Rubric for WRIT 110, Fall 2016
Grading Rubric for FCWR 111, Spring 2015
Mentor, Visiting Scholar from China, Spring 2016
Mentor, Visiting Scholar from China, Spring 2015 – Fall 2016
School of Arts and Sciences:
CAS, Curriculum Committee, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
Organizing Committee for Source Conference, 2018 – 2019
Faculty Marshal, Graduation Ceremony, 2015
Faculty Marshal, Graduation Ceremony, 2016
Institutional:
Senator, Academic Senate, Fall 2020 – Present
- CPI, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
- Communications Committee, Fall 2020 – Spring 2021
- Grade Appeal Committee, 2018 – 2019
Senator, Academic Senate, Fall 2018 –Spring 2020
- Executive Committee, 2019–2020
- Library Committee, 2018 – 2020
- Communications Committee, 2018 – 2019
- CPI / Assessment Committee, 2018 – 2020
- Co-chair of CPI / Assessment Committee, 2019– 2020
- Grade Appeal Committee, 2018 – 2019
CPI Committee Faculty Co-Chair of Assessment Sub-Committee, Spring 2019
- Attend CPI Leadership Team meetings
- Help plan committee meeting agendas
- Help prepare CPI documents (e.g., Academic CPI Report Template)
- Advance ideas for faculty and staff development regarding initiative development and program evaluation
- Make recommendations for improving the CPI process
Educational Technology Committee of the Academic Senate, 2017 – 2018 (representative)
Educational Technology Committee of the Academic Senate, 2016 – 2017 (representative)
Institutional Development Committee, 2015–2016 (representative)
Institutional Service Outside the Senate:
Interdisciplinary Review Committee, Chair, Fall 2020
Phase I Committee, Redesigning the Undergraduate Core, Fall 2019
Student Contact Training, 2019-2020
Middle States Working Group Standard V, 2019
Contributor, CTL Note, “Redesign Your Syllabus to Make it Learner– Centered,” Nov. 28, 2018
Student Contact Training, 2018-2019
Workshops through CTL: “Flipped Classroom” and “Flipped Learning Extravaganza,” 2016-2017
Roundtable Conversation on Learning Management Systems, Fall 2016
New Faculty Orientation, 2016
New Faculty Orientation, 2015
Interviewer for Orientation Leaders, Student Services, Spring 2015
Faculty Expert on Turnitin at the Ed. Tech Extravaganza workshop, Center of Teaching and Learning, Fall 2015
Mentee, Mentoring Program. Center of Teaching and Learning, Fall 2014– Spring 2015
Professional Workshops:
“Creating Effective Assessment,” Online Learning Consortium, Nov 2020
“Exploring Interactive Video Tools,” Online Learning Consortium, Sep. 2020
“Creating an Interactive Syllabus,” Online Learning Consortium, May 2018
“Designing Courses with Multimodal Approach,” Online Learning Consortium, July 2016
Co-Coordinator of Workshop, Teaching International Students—An Online Workshop, Center of Teaching and Learning, Fall 2015
Service to the Profession:
Review of Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife: World Literature Today, University of Oklahoma, January 2021.
MLA liaison for the Modern Greek Studies Association, 2019-2021
Interviewed by The Economist Careers Network, 2019
“Common grammar mistakes to avoid on the GRE,” 2020
“How to build GRE vocabulary with reading, apps, games and more,” 2019
“How to build GRE vocab through listening,” 2019
Book-Reviewer for Children’s Literature Quarterly (Johns Hopkins University Press), April 2019
Book-Reviewer for Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, April 2018
Peer-Reviewer for the Modern Greek Journal (Johns Hopkins University Press), Spring 2016
Other Professional Teaching Positions:
Rutgers University, New Jersey, 2013-2014
Adjunct Lecturer, Writing Program, Department of English
EAD I: English as Academic Discourse I (for international students) 4 Credits
EAD II: English as Academic Discourse II (for international students) 4 Credits
- Students practiced reading and writing to move to Expository Writing 101
- Four essays with three drafts all of which were graded
- Additional midterm and final exams
- Participated in departmental meetings and was trained on rubric criteria for grading
- Utilized a course management software, Sakai, where students submitted assignments and engaged in discussions
Saint Peter’s University, New Jersey, 2013–2014
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English
Eng. 123: Forms of Literature: Poetry and Drama 3 Credits
- A hybrid course, using Blackboard instruction
- Plays: Oedipus, Hamlet, A Doll’s House, Death of a Salesman
- Selected Poems by: Shakespeare, John Donne, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Alfred Tennyson, Wallace Steven, Robert Frost, and e.e. cummings.
Hunter College, City University of New York, 2007–2008
Adjunct Lecturer, Department of English
Eng. 220: Intro to English Literature 3 Credits
- Plays: William Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Oscar Wild’s The Importance of Being Earnest Poetry: William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Poems by William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, and Alfred Tennyson.
- Prose: Jane Austen Emma, James Joyce The Dead, Virginia Woolf To the Lighthouse.
Eng. 332: History of the English Language 3 Credits
- Focused on the evolution of the English language
- Covered material from the Anglo-Saxon period to Modern Times
Columbia Private Institute, Cyprus-Europe, 2008–2013
ESL Consultant
- Helped with curriculum development
- Developed and edited placement tests and final exams for eight proficiency levels
- Edited letters for the administration who was seeking to establish connections with other ESL schools in Europe and the Middle East
- Created the content and organized material for marketing brochures and website
Columbia Private Institute, Cyprus-Europe, Summers 2005, 2006, 2007
Program Coordinator and Curriculum planning, English Language Program
- Developed material for four ESL courses offered to Greek students ages 8 to 16
- Observed and gave feedback to seven ESL teachers
- Organized short seminars on methodology and ESL pedagogy
- Presented student-centered activities to be modeled by the teachers and to be implemented in the school curriculum
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, 2003-2004
ESL Teacher, Community English Program
- Taught 6 hours weekly at the Low and High Intermediate levels of Teachers College in- house program for adults
- Was involved in lesson planning, assessment and placement tests for all four skills, exam creation, report writing, and other administrative tasks
Queens College, City University of New York, 2003
ESL Teaching Assistant, College Now
- Taught the language component of a Social Studies class
- Prepared students for the Regents examination
Columbia Private Institute, Cyprus-Europe, Summers 2001-2002
Teaching Assistant for the ESL Summer Program
- Taught English to Greek native speakers
- Developed lesson plans for different proficiency levels