Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis

Candidate statement

Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis is Associate Professor of English, in the Humanities department, and director of Interdisciplinary Studies at New York Institute of Technology. Her research focuses on postmodern metafiction in both children’s and adult fiction, often weaving contemporary Greek literature. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, The Lion and the Unicorn, Children’s Literature Quarterly, Bookbird, International Research in Children’s Literature and Narrative. She is currently working on an edited collection on metafiction, under contract with Routledge. At New York Institute of Technology, Athanasiou-Krikelis has taken up various leadership roles. In addition to serving on the Senate regularly and being in the leadership team for the restructuring of her institution’s general education curriculum, she is now leading the university’s efforts to organize an assessment plan of the general education courses. Athanasiou-Krikelis would be honored to serve on the MGSA executive board if elected.