Yianna Liatsos

Lecturer Below The Bar Ph.D.,

 
researcher

Biography

EDUCATION:
  • 1992   BA Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
  • 1994    MA Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
  • 1997    MA Classics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
  • 2005    Ph.D. Comparative Literature, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA


EMPLOYMENT:

  • 2005-2010      Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
  • 2007-2008      Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, English, The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
  • 2009-               Lecturer in English, UL

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
2005 '“Historical Catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission”'
Yianna Liatsos (2005) '“Historical Catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission”' In: Frontiers of Diversity: Essays in Contemporary Pluralism. Netherlands: Rodopi. [Details]
2006 'Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela”'
Yianna Liatsos (2006) 'Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela”' In: Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays. New York: Routledge. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
2001 'An Artist’s Choice, an Artist’s Commitment: Reconciling Myth and Modern History in Nietzsche and Adorno'
Yianna Liatsos (2001) 'An Artist’s Choice, an Artist’s Commitment: Reconciling Myth and Modern History in Nietzsche and Adorno'. Dialectical Anthropology, [Details]
2003 'Guest Editor of double issue titled “Revisions of Nationality and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Europe” and author of “Introduction”'
Yianna Liatsos (2003) 'Guest Editor of double issue titled “Revisions of Nationality and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Europe” and author of “Introduction”'. Dialectical Anthropology, [Details]
2008 'A New Bloodline: Antjie Krog's Autobiographical Prose and the Paradoxes of Belonging'
Liatsos, Y. (2008) 'A New Bloodline: Antjie Krog's Autobiographical Prose and the Paradoxes of Belonging'. Safundi, 9 (2):127-153 [DOI] [Details]

Book Review

  Year Publication
2000 Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France, by Philip Watts in Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d’histoire XXXV, pp 569-570.
Yianna Liatsos (2000) Allegories of the Purge: How Literature Responded to the Postwar Trials of Writers and Intellectuals in France, by Philip Watts in Canadian Journal of History/Annales Canadiennes d’histoire XXXV, pp 569-570. Book Review [Details]
2002 Myths and Memories of the Nation, by Anthony D. Smith in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp 142-143.
Yianna Liatsos (2002) Myths and Memories of the Nation, by Anthony D. Smith in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp 142-143. Book Review [Details]
2003 The Politics of the New South Africa, by Heather Deegan in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp. 90-92.
Yianna Liatsos (2003) The Politics of the New South Africa, by Heather Deegan in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp. 90-92. Book Review [Details]
2009 J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, ed. by Jane Poyner in English Academy Review Journal, pp 98-101.
Yianna Liatsos (2009) J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of the Public Intellectual, ed. by Jane Poyner in English Academy Review Journal, pp 98-101. Book Review [Details]

Encyclopedia Entry

  Year Publication
2004 “Chinua Achebe” Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities. Ed. Carl Skutsch (New York: Routledge).
Yianna Liatsos (2004) “Chinua Achebe” Encyclopedia of the World’s Minorities. Ed. Carl Skutsch (New York: Routledge). Encyclopedia Entry [Details]
2005 “Albert Luthuli” The Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Ed. Thomas Leonard. (New York: Routledge).
Yianna Liatsos (2005) “Albert Luthuli” The Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Ed. Thomas Leonard. (New York: Routledge). Encyclopedia Entry [Details]

Translation

  Year Publication
1997 The Regards by Alexandra Papadopoulou. Greece: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Ed. Artemis Leontis (San Francisco, CA: Whereabouts Press).
Yianna Liatsos (1997) The Regards by Alexandra Papadopoulou. Greece: A Traveler’s Literary Companion. Ed. Artemis Leontis (San Francisco, CA: Whereabouts Press). Translation [Details]