ASSOCIATES
EMMANOUIL ARETOULAKIS | |
Associate Lecturer | |
Telephone: 210 727 7551 | |
Office: 904 | |
E-mail: emmareto[at]enl.uoa[dot]gr | |
Dr. 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 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. He is specialized in literary theory, the philosophical interpretation of the novel of the twentieth century, sixteenth-century prose, and contemporary philosophy/aesthetics in relation to the problem of violence and terrorism. 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 posthumanist ecology. His recent book Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture (Lexington, 2016) explores precisely the importance of aesthetics and beauty in appraising terror and the ethical dimension of aesthetic appreciation in Western Culture from the 18th century onwards. Over the past four years, Dr. Aretoulakis has taught an experimental course on terrorism and its close affinity with the element of literariness underlying terrorist events in the last two centuries. The course 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. The publication of his relevant study Terrorism and Literariness (2015), inextricably connected with the teaching of the course, was funded by an EU research program. Dr. Aretoulakis 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. His published work has achieved considerable visibility, and there are several references to his books and articles in the academic community. His published books (monographs) are the following: Forbidden Aesthetics, Ethical Justice, and Terror in Modern Western Culture. Lanham, USA: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2016. Artificial Natures, Unnatural Desires, and the Unconscious Other in the English Renaissance: More’s Utopia and Sidney’s New Arcadia. Saarbrucken, Germany: Scholar’s Press, OmniScriptum, 2015. Terrorism and Literariness: The Terrorist Event in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries, Kallipos, 2015. |