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Theodora Patrona
Laboratory Teaching Staff, School of English Language and Literature
Personal Information
tpatrona@enl.auth.gr
https://www.enl.auth.gr/instructor.asp?Id=103
Γνωστικό Αντικείμενο
:
Διασπορά και Ταυτότητα στον Αγγλόφωνο Κόσμο
Επιστημονική Ειδίκευση
:
Εκπαίδευση
Κατάρτιση εκπαιδευτικών
Ανθρωπιστικά και Τέχνες
Ανθρωπιστικά
Ξένες γλώσσες
Συγκριτική Λογοτεχνία, Πολιτισμικές Σπουδές
Education
Προπτυχιακές Σπουδές
2000
BA
Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας
ΑΠΘ
Greece
Μεταπτυχιακές Σπουδές
2001
MA
Center for Translation Studies
University of Surrey
Great Britain
Διδακτορικό Δίπλωμα
2011
Ph.D.
Αγγλικής Γλώσσας και Φιλολογίας
ΑΠΘ
Greece
Αμερικάνικη Λογοτεχνία
Course Work
Courses of Winter semester of 2025–26 academic year
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Λογ6-460
OCEANIC TEXTS AND CULTURE(S)
Λογ9-390
INTRODUCTION TO THE RESEARCH PAPER
Courses of Spring semester of 2025–26 academic year
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Λογ5-127
WORKSHOP IN CRITICAL WRITING: FICTION
Λογ5-130
INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
Research Projects
Participant
2021–2021
Narrative Crossings in Education
2015–2020
Studies in European Literature
2002–2011
Academic Cooperation AUTH - HELLENIC SOCIETY "PAIDEIA"
Publications
(2022)
Book Chapter
Anagnostou Yiorgos (editor)
.
(2022)
.
Irrevocable or Irreversible?: Authenticating Identities in Italian and Greek Immigration Documentaries
.
επιμ.
Kalogeras Georgios (editor)
,
Patrona Theodora
.
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity
.
Επιμέλεια:Yiorgos Anagnostou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, Theodora Patrona
.
New York
.
Fordham University Press
.
p.298-322
Book - Textbook
Anagnostou Yiorgos (editor)
,
Kalogeras Georgios (editor)
,
Patrona Theodora (editor)
.
(2022)
.
Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation
.
New York
.
Fordham University Press
(2021)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2021)
.
Cognition, Recognition, and Acknowledgment: Fighting the Father/Fatherland and the Italian American Narrative
.
26TH AISNA BIENNIAL CONFERENCE "Crossing Territories: Recognition across Time, Space, and Textuality in the US and Beyond"
.
L’Aquila, Italy
Αγγελιδάκη Μαρία
,
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2021)
.
Tο διακαλλιτεχνικό πλαίσιο ως τόπος προβληματισμού και δημιουργικότητας μέσα από το ποίημα «Μα εγώ σηκώνομαι» της Maya Angelou:
.
5ο Συνέδριο ΙΑΚΕ 2019 "Η Διεπιστημονικότητα ως Γνωστική, Εκπαιδευτική και Κοινωνική Πρόκληση"
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Ηράκλειο, Κρήτη, Ελλάδα
(2019)
Conference Proceedings Article
Αγγελιδάκη Μαρία
,
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2019)
.
Το Διακαλλιτεχνικό Πλαίσιο ως Τόπος Προβληματισμού και Δημιουργικότητας: Το Παράδειγμα της Διδασκαλίας του Ποιήματος «Μα Εγώ Σηκώνομαι» της Maya Angelou
.
5ο Διεθνές Συνέδριο του Ινστιτούτου Ανθρωπιστικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών
(2018)
Journal Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2018)
.
“Can an identity that expresses itself in two separate ways-through two separate languages and in two cultures-be said to be authentic?”: Αn Interview with Henriette Lazaridis, author of The Clover House
.
Bridge
Vassiloudi Vassiliki E.
,
Patrona Theodora
.
(2018)
.
Childhood Representations and Subjectivity in Stratis Haviaras’s When the Tree Sings and The Heroic Age
.
Mediterranean Chronicle
.
vol.8 p.311-326
(2017)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2017)
.
One Step Behind: Mapping the Greek Female Immigrant in Mary Vardoulakis’s Gold in the Streets (1945) and Roxane Cotsakis’s The Wing and the Thorn (1952)
.
Helaas International Conference "The Politics of Space and the Humanities"
.
Θεσσαλονίκη, Ελλάδα
Monograph
Patrona Theodora
.
(2017)
.
Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Contemporary Greek American and Italian American Literature
.
Madison
.
Fairleigh Dickinson UP
(2016)
Journal Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2016)
.
The Italian-American Macho Housekeeper: Male Ethnic Identity in Who’s the Boss (1984-1992)”
.
Mediterranean Chronicle
.
vol.6
Conference Proceedings Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2016)
.
Women knocking on the Golden Door (2006) Eds. Eleftheria Arapoglou, Yiorgos Kalogeras, and Jopi Nyman, Palgrave Macmillan (US). 263-277.: Female migrants and cultural history through film” Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media,
.
Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2016)
.
Δεν εκατέχαμε ένα Τουρκικό» Eds. Έφη Ψιλάκη-Μανώλης Δρακάκης. 2016: 255-264.: η ταυτότητα του Μουσουλμάνου Κρητικού πρόσφυγα σε δύο ταινίες τεκμηρίωσης επιστροφής
.
Τέχνη και Πολιτισμός στα Χρόνια της Ένωσης
(2015)
Book Chapter
Patrona Theodora
.
(2015)
.
The West in Italy/ Italy in the West:: Italian-American Women Writers and the Ethnic Heroine
.
The West in Asia/Asia in the West
.
[eds] Elisabetta Marino and Tanfer Emin Tunc
.
E MacFarland & Company, Inc Publish
Conference Announcement
Βασιλούδη Βασιλική
,
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2015)
.
Αναπαραστάσεις της παιδικής ηλικίας και συγκρότηση ταυτοτήτων στα έργα του Στρατή Χαβιαρά Όταν το Δέντρο Τραγουδά και Τα Ηρωικά Χρόνια:
.
Ταυτότητες, Γλώσσα και Λογοτεχνία, 20 Χρόνια Τ.Ε.Φ-Δ.Π.Θ
.
Κομοτηνή, Ελλάδα
(2014)
Book Chapter
Patrona Theodora
.
(2014)
.
Mapping the Female Ethnic Self in the Family Battleground: Louise DeSalvo’s Vertigo and the Greek-American Novel
.
Personal Effects:Essays on Memoir, Teaching and Culture in the Works of Louise DeSalvo
.
[eds] Edvige Guinta and Nancy Caronia
.
Fordham UP
Conference Proceedings Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2014)
.
The Female Ethnic Writer’s Return to the Ancestral Hearth: Greece and Italy Revisited
.
Travel, Trade, and Ethnic Transformations
(2013)
Journal Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2013)
.
Ethnic Identification, Food and Melancholiax Journal of Mediterranean Studies Association. Volume 20, Issue 2. Ed. Susan Shapiro March 2013. 176-186.: Louise DeSalvo’s memoirs and the Female Italian-American Experience
.
Journal of Mediterranean Studies Association
.
vol.20 no.2 p.176-186
Patrona Theodora
.
(2013)
.
Juvenile ‘Outlaws’: Civil Strife, Trauma, and (personal) history in Stratis Haviaras’ The Heroic Age
.
Mediterranean Chronicle
.
vol.3 p.263-273
Book Chapter
Patrona Theodora
.
(2013)
.
Greek-Americans
.
Dictionary Entry in Multicultural America: A Multimedia Encyclopaedia.
.
[eds] Carlos Cortez
.
Sage
Conference Announcement
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2013)
.
Οριοθετώντας τον γυναικείο εθνοτικό χώρο στην Αμερική του 1950: οι Ελληνοαμερικανίδες και η γυναικεία γραφή
.
Helaas Symposium «Χω/ορο-γραφώντας την Αμερική»
(2012)
Conference Proceedings Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2012)
.
Ex-centric Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson’s The Priest Fainted (1998)
.
Ex-centric Narratives Postgraduate Conference
Patrona Theodora
.
(2012)
.
Migration, Space and Ethnic Female Subjectivitiesin Migration and Exile: Pantelis Voulgaris’ Brides (2004)
.
Migrations Interamericaines and Transatlantiques
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2012)
.
Mediterranean Women knocking on the Golden Door (2006): Female migrants and cultural history through film
.
Media and Mediated Performances of Ethnicity
Ριστάνη Μαρία
,
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2012)
.
Ανάμεσα σε δύο κόσμους ή το δράμα της μετανάστευσηςμε τ: Το Γάλα του Βασίλη Κατσικονούρη
.
β Θεατρολογικό Συνέδριο «Μετανάστες και πρόσφυγες στη σύγχρονη δραματουργία και τη σκηνική πράξη
(2011)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2011)
.
Migration, Space and Ethnic Female Subjectivities in Pantelis Voulgaris’ Brides 2004
.
Migrations Interamericaines and Transatlantiques,
Patrona Theodora
.
(2011)
.
Juvenile ‘Outlaws’: Civil Strife, Trauma, and (personal) history in Stratis Haviaras’ The Heroic Age (1984)
.
HASE Conference The Letter of the Law
Patrona Theodora
.
(2011)
.
Ethnic Identification, Food and Melancholia: Louise DeSalvo and the female Italian American Experience
.
14ο Annual Conference of the Meditteranean Studies Association
Πατρώνα Θεοδώρα
.
(2011)
.
Ελλάδα και Τουρκία, Υποκειμενικότητες και Πολιτισμοί σε (Διά) Δραση: ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ Κουζίνα του Τάσου Μπουλμέτη (2003)
.
Γλώσσες και Πολιτισμοί σε (Δια) Δραση
(2010)
Conference Proceedings Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2010)
.
Hunger is a harsh master: Social Justice in Tony Ardizzone’s In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu”
.
USA: Identities, Cultures, and Politics in National, Transnational and Global Perspectives
.
USA: Identities, Cultures, and Politics in National, Transnational and Global Perspectives
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2010)
.
The Ethnic Writer’s Return to the Ancestral Heath: Greece and Italy Revisited
.
Travel, Trade, and Ethnic Transformations,
(2009)
Conference Proceedings Article
Patrona Theodora
.
(2009)
.
A Woman’s Voice in a Man’s World: Psychoanalyzing Marguerite in Helen Barolini’s Umbertina
.
Italian Americans in the Third Millennium: Social Histories & Cultural Representation,
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2009)
.
Italian-American Persephone on a Sicilian Setting: Susan Caperna Lloyd’s no Pictures in My Grave (1992)
.
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute Annual Conference,
Patrona Theodora
.
(2009)
.
Italian-American Dreamers Sifting Through Granite Dust,: Mari Tomasi’s Like Lesser Gods (1949)”
.
@0th AISNA Conference, Translating America,
(2008)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2008)
.
Only a foul judges wine by its bottle: Teresa Pantaluna’s Class and Gender Struggle in Tony Ardizzone’s In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu
.
Migration Matters,
(2007)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2007)
.
For where rosemary grows the women in the house are its strength: Italian American women in Helen Barolini’s Umbertina
.
Ethnic Life Writing and Histories,
Patrona Theodora
.
(2007)
.
Εvery woman needs a story and perhaps this is the way the story should go: Mythic Wanderings in Catherine Temma Davidson’s The Priest Fainted
.
Ex-centric Narratives Postgraduate Conference,
Patrona Theodora
.
(2007)
.
Hunger is a harsh master: Social Justice in Tony Ardizzone’s In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu”
.
19th AISNA Conference,
(2006)
Conference Announcement
Patrona Theodora
.
(2006)
.
A woman in a man’s world: Psychoanalyzing Marguerite in Helen Barolini’s Umbertina
.
39th Annual AIHA Conference,
Distinctions
2021
2021- 22 Library Research Fellowship at the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, California State University Sacramento
2013
2012 Library Research Fellowship at the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, California State University Sacramento
2010
AIHA (American Italian Historical Association) Μemorial Scholarship for original doctoral thesis (October 2010)
2006
ΑΙΗΑ Τravel Grant for Participation at the 2006 Orlando Conference
Updated: 2026-04-11
