Emmanouil Aretoulakis is Associate Lecturer at the Department of Literature/Culture, Faculty of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He also teaches European Literature at the Hellenic Open University. He has a Ph.D in English Renaissance Prose, an M.A in Literary Theory and English Literature, and a B.A in English and American Literature and Culture. He teaches English Fiction, English Poetry, contemporary Theory, Aesthetics, and a course on terrorism and the Humanities, which focuses on the theoretical and philosophical investigation of terrorism and analyses specific cases of contem…
Emmanouil Aretoulakis is Associate Lecturer at the Department of Literature/Culture, Faculty of English Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He also teaches European Literature at the Hellenic Open University. He has a Ph.D in English Renaissance Prose, an M.A in Literary Theory and English Literature, and a B.A in English and American Literature and Culture. He teaches English Fiction, English Poetry, contemporary Theory, Aesthetics, and a course on terrorism and the Humanities, which focuses on the theoretical and philosophical investigation of terrorism and analyses specific cases of contemporary asymmetric violence from the perspective of literature, performance studies, eighteenth-century philosophy, critical theory, and aesthetics. His current research interests revolve around the affinity between literariness and terror in the twentieth/twenty-first century, the role of aesthetics in understanding traumatic events, and the connection between philosophy and literature.
E. Aretoulakis is a member of the international network Challenging Precarity, which investigates contemporary discourses on violence. He is currently editing a special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Aesthetics on “Aesthetics and Terrorism” (2019). He has served as anonymous reviewer, amongst others, for the Journal Critical Studies on Terrorism (New Zealand), Contemporary Aesthetics (USA), and the International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies (Champaign, USA) for which he has also co-edited a thematic issue. He has published three books (monographs) and various articles in peer-and blind-reviewed international academic journals such as Katherine Mansfield Studies, Philosophy and Literature, European Journal of English Studies, Contemporary Aesthetics, Journal of Early Modern Studies, The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, and others.
