Visiting Scholar From Greece to Present Program

Tatiani G. Rapatzikou will discuss "Digitizing the Correspondence of Betty Ryan and Henry Miller" at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 12, in room 102 of the Charles H. Jones Building at Macon State College. 

Rapatzikou is assistant professor of American Literature and Culture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She received her B.A. from University of Athens, Greece, and her M.A. from Lancaster University. She earned her Ph.D. as a grantee of the Greek State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y) from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

Her publications include Gothic Motifs in the Fiction of William Gibson (2004), as well as articles and essays in Contemporary American Fiction and Poetry. She is the editor of Anglo-American Perceptions of Hellenism (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007) and American Poetry in Greece (Hellenic Association for American Studies, 2006). She also co-edited the 2008 special issue of GRAMMA: Journal of Theory and Criticism entitled Revisiting Crisis/Reflecting on Conflict: American Literary Interpretations from World War II to Ground Zero (www.enl.auth.gr/gramma)

In 2009 she was a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at M.I.T., and is currently a Visiting Research Scholar at Duke University, where she is at work on a project focusing on enhanced narratives in contemporary American fiction.