Current activities

Organization of conferences

5th HELAAS Young Scholar Symposium: The Age of Narrarives: Expanding, Re-inventing, Re-imagining

Mar. 7, 2026 – NKUA, Athens

Organized by Maria Giannouli, Lina Katsorchi, Thomas Mantzaris, and Foteini Toliou

Symposium webpage: https://helaas.enl.auth.gr/yss5/


Editing work

Editor of special issue, Writing the New Twenties (2026)

AmLit – American Literatures

Co-editing special issue, Journalism and Literature (2027)

Journal for Literary & Intermedial Crossings (JLIC)

Editors: Chiara Cremona, Thomas Mantzaris, Jelle Mast, Marcela Scibiorska


HELAAS Young Scholar Representative (2023-2027)

Organization of 5th Young Scholar Symposium, The Age of Narratives: Expanding, Re-inventing, Re-imagining (2026)


Initiatives for the promotion and visibility of Young Scholar research on American Studies: Research Output & Research Dissemination


Dissemination of research-related information via the HELAAS list-serv


Managing the update of the American Studies Resource Portal


Creator and Administrator of Young Scholars LinkedIn page


Internal communication and external collaborations (national/international)

Participation in asynchronous course

Multimodality: Print and Digital Anglophone Narratives (cycle 5)

Instructor for Weeks 1 & 2

Project management and administrative support to program

More information: https://kedivim.auth.gr/en/programs/multimodality-print-and-digital-anglophone-narratives-5/