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Efthymia Lydia Roupakia
Assistant Professor, School of English Language and Literature
Personal Information
2310997354
roupakia@enl.auth.gr
Google Scholar ID
ePoptBMAAAAJ
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3965-3207
Γνωστικό Αντικείμενο
:
Αμερικάνικη Λογοτεχνία και Πολιτισμός
Επιστημονική Ειδίκευση
:
Ανθρωπιστικά και Τέχνες
Ανθρωπιστικά
Ξένες γλώσσες
Φιλοσοφία και Ηθική
Κοινωνιολογία και πολιτιστικές σπουδές
Education
Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές
2001
Πτυχίο
Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας
ΑΠΘ
Greece
Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές
2003
MPhil
English Language and Literature
University of Oxford
Great Britain
Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα
2009
PhD
English Language and Literature
University of Oxford
Great Britain
Course Work
Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Λογ7-271
AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE PRESENT
Λογ7-344
WRITERS OF THE AMERICAN SOUTH AND THEIR LITERARY LEGACY
Λογ7-377
INTER-AMERICAN STUDIES
Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Λογ5-127
WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION
Λογ7-271
AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE: FROM MODERN TIMES TO THE PRESENT
Λογ7-439
MULTIETHNIC LANDSCAPES:NORTH AMERICAN WRITERS AND WRITERS OF THE CARRIBEAN DIASPORA
Theses Supervised
Student Theses within AUTh
In progress
Doctoral
(Re)-Imagining North American Cities in Contemporary Literature by Caribbean-North American Women Writers: Negotiating Space, Identity and (Un)belonging
Remapping Identities: Toronto in Contemporary Anglophone Canadian Fiction
Undergraduate
No title
TRANSGRESSING BOUNDARIES IN THE AMERICAN URBAN SPACE: INTERSECTIONALITY AND MOTHERHOOD IN NICOLE DENNIS-BENN'S "PATSY" AND ANGIE CRUZ'S "DOMINICANA"
2024–2025
Undergraduate
REVISIONS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM IN CONTEMPORARY CARIBBEAN-AMERICAN WOMEN'S WRITING: READING ANGIE CRUZ'S "DOMINICANA" AND IBI ZOBOI'S "AMERICAN STREET"
2022–2023
Postgraduate
Negotiating Identity and Belonging in Contemporary Dominican-American Women's Writings: Reading Julia Alvarez's "Afterlife" (2020) and Angie Cruz's "How not to Drown in a Glass of Water" (2022)
Negotiating Native Canadian Identity on the Brink of Environmental Destruction: Exploring Thomas King's "Green Grass Running Water" (1993) and "The Back of the Turtle" (2014)
Narratives of Trauma, Narratives of Healing: Reading Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Diaz's "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao" (2007) and Ocean Vuong's "On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous" (2019)
Mapping Queer Sexualities: On Sexuality, Space and Belonging in Dionne Brand's "In Another Place, not Here" (1996) and Shani Mootoo's "Valmiki's Daughter" (2008)
Undergraduate
URBAN RE-MAPPINGS OF DOMINICAN-AMERICAN NARRATIVES OF IMMIGRATION AND BELONGING: READING ANGIE CRUZ'S "HOW NOT TO DROWN IN A GLASS OF WATER"
2020–2021
Postgraduate
Re-routing Chicanα/o to Identity in Rudolfo A. Anaya's "Bless Me Ultima" (1972) novels Bless Me Ultima (1972) and "Heart of Aztlan" 1976): Community, Hybridity and Transformation
Narrative (Re)Mappings of the Dominican-American Immigrant Experience: Reading Julia Alvarez's "How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents" (1991) and Angie Cruz's "Dominicana" (2019)
2019–2020
Undergraduate
CHALLENGING BOUNDARIES: RACE, MORALITY AND (IN)JUSTICE IN "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD".
Unknown
Postgraduate
Reconfigurations of Memory, Identity and Trauma in Contemporary Vietnamese American Writing: A Reading of Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Sympathizer and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Negotiating Displacement and (Un)belonging in Contemporary Refugee Literature: Reading Omar El Akkad's "What Strange Paradise" (2021) and Sharon Bala's "The Boat People" (2018)
Undergraduate
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND REPRESENTATIONS OF CULTURAL IDENTITY: NAVIGATING GENERETIONAL CONFLICT AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE "THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET" BY SANDRA CISNEROS AND "THE JOY LUCK CLUB" BY AMY TAN
NEGOTIATING AFRICAN AMERICAN IDENTITY THROUGH JAZZ: RE-READING TONI MORRISON'S "JAZZ" AND ISHMAEL REED'S "MUMBO JUMBO".
QUEER DIASPORA AND THE INTERSECTIONS OF RACE, GENDER AND CLASS IN NICOLE DENNIS BENN'S "PATSY" (2019)
Research Projects
Coordinator
2025–2025
New Mobilities and Grounding Engagements
Participant
2024–2024
Active Citizenship in a Participatory Culture
2014–2021
Μaster Graduate Program "English Language and Literature"
Publications
(2017)
Book Chapter
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia (editor)
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(2017)
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Whose Recognition? Authenticity, Agency and Responsibility in Kerri Sakamoto’s The Electrical Field: Critical Essays on Ethnic Women Writers
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Community Boundaries and Border Crossings by Ethnic Women Writers
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Επιμέλεια:Kristen Lillvis, Robert Miltner, Molly Fuller
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Lexington Books, An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group Inc.
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p.151-169
Conference Announcement
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2017)
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Religion, Migration, Cosmopolitanism: Women Crossing Boundaries
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The Politics of Space and the Humanities
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Θεσσαλονίκη - Ελλάδα
Book - Textbook
Sideri Eleni (editor)
,
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia (editor)
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(2017)
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Religion and Migration in the Black Sea Region
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Palgrave Macmillan
(2016)
Journal Article
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2016)
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Religion, Cosmopolitanism and Ethics: Re-reading Monica Ali’s Brick Lane
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Journal of Postcolonial Writing
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vol.52 no.6 p.645-658
(2015)
Journal Article
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2015)
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On ‘Care’, ethics and reading practice: Re-reading Zadie Smith’s White Teeth
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LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory
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vol.26 no.2 p.150-171
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2015)
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‘Art-iculating’ affective citizenship: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
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Atlantis
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vol.31 no.7 p.31-50
Conference Proceedings Article
Baniotopoulou Evi
,
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
,
Sideri Eleni
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(2015)
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Locating belonging, refiguring space: Mediterranean Crossings and the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
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Πρακτικά του Ε΄Ευρωπαϊκού Συνεδρίου Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών. Συνέχειες, ασυνέχειες, ρήξεις στον ελληνικό κόσμο (1204 – 2014): οικονομία, κοινωνία, ιστορία λογοτεχνία
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Ε΄ Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών
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Επιμέλεια:Κωνσταντίνος Α. Δημάδης
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Θεσσαλονίκη - Ελλάδα
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Αθήνα
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Ευρωπαϊκή Εταιρεία Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών (ΕΕΝΣ)
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vol.E p.667-677
(2014)
Conference Announcement
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
.
(2014)
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Locating belonging, refiguring space: Mediterranean Crossings and the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art
.
Ε΄Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών. Συνέχειες, ασυνέχειες, ρήξεις στον ελληνικό κόσμο (1204 – 2014): οικονομία, κοινωνία, ιστορία λογοτεχνία
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Θεσσαλονίκη - Ελλάδα
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2014)
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On belief, belonging and boundaries: Monica Ali’s Brick Lane and the question of ethics
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The War on the Human: Human as Right, Human as Limit and the Task of the Humanities
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Αθήνα - Ελλάδα
(2012)
Journal Article
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2012)
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On judging with care and the responsibility of an heir: reading Eden Robinson’s Monkey Beach
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University of Toronto Quarterly
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vol.81 no.2 p.279-296
Conference Announcement
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2012)
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Reading with care: intimacy and the literary imagination
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11th International ESSE Conference
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Constantinople-Turkey
(2011)
Conference Announcement
Roupakia Efthymia Lydia
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(2011)
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Bioethics and the literary imagination: Reading Jodi Picoult's My Sister's Keeper and Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let me Go
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The Letter of the Law: Law Matters in Language and Literature
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Athens, Greece
Updated: 2026-04-11