IRO FILIPPAKI

Iro Filippaki holds a PhD in English Literature from University of Glasgow, where she completed her doctoral dissertation, Tropics of Trauma: Affective Representations in War Narratives, 1917–2006 (2017). She also holds an MA in Literature, Narratology and Ideology, and a BA in English Language and Literature from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Glasgow, Johns Hopkins University, the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and The American College of Greece. Her teaching spans literary theory and criticism, contemporary Anglophone fiction and poetry, affect theory, body studies, biopolitics, literature and medicine, and the intersections of literature, art, and culture.

From 2018 to 2020, she served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where she taught courses on pain, biopolitics, affect theory, illness narratives, and representations of the body. She has also contributed to widening participation initiatives, designing and delivering courses for students from underrepresented social and educational backgrounds. Her research lies at the intersection of literary and cultural studies, with particular emphasis on affect theory, narratology, trauma studies, representations of the body, literature and medicine, and the relationships between literature, history, psychoanalysis, and critical theory. Her work explores the emotional and cultural dimensions of trauma, resilience, violence, illness, and embodied experience in literature and contemporary culture.

Filippaki has published monographs, book chapters, and peer-reviewed journal articles on modernism, war and trauma narratives, motherhood theory, literature and medicine, resilience, and digital memory. Her work has appeared in journals including Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, Theory Now, Literature and Medicine, and Literature Interpretation Theory. She is co-editor of the special issue Trauma, Narratives, Institutions and actively contributes to international research networks, academic publishing, and interdisciplinary scholarship. Her current research focuses on impatience as a cultural and narrative category, medical humanities, and the study of injury, embodiment, and lived experience in contemporary literature and culture.