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Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis

Honors College Faculty Fellow of Honors College; Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences

Associate Professor; , College of Arts & Sciences

Education Credentials: Ph.D.

Expertise: Comparative Literature

Joined New York Tech: 2014

Lissi Athanasiou-Krikelis is the director of the Interdisciplinary Studies program and associate professor in the Department of Humanities, where she teaches courses in literature and writing. Her primary research interests include metafiction and narrative theory in both adult and children’s literary texts. Athanasiou-Krikelis has presented at various conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and her articles have appeared in various peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. She has recently co-edited The Routledge Companion to Metafiction with Dr. Josh Toth (2026).

Athanasiou-Krikelis holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and a master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) from Teacher’s College, Columbia University. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Linguistics and Comparative Literature from Queens College.

  • The Routledge Companion to Metafiction, co-edited with Josh Toth, (Routledge, expected 2026).
  • Introduction. The Routledge Companion to Metafiction, (Routledge, expected 2026).
  • “(Post)feminism and Metafiction in God’s Wife,” The Routledge Companion to Metafiction, (Routledge, expected 2026).
  • “Autofiction in Children’s and Young Adult Literature: Does It Exist?” the Cambridge Companion to Autofiction, (Cambridge UP, expected 2027).
  • “Intertextuality: Rewriting Traditional Forms” the Oxford Handbook of Postmodernism, (Oxford UP, expected 2028).

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
  • “Bookishness and Metafictionality in the Material Picturebook” (co-authored with Vassiliki Vassiloudi). Children’s Literature in Education: An International Quarterly (Springer), vol. 56, May 2025, pp. 494–512.
  • “Mapping the Metafictional Picturebook.” Narrative (The Ohio State UP), vol. 28, no. 3, October 2020, pp. 355–374.
  • “Who Is the Turk in Greek Children’s and Young Adult Fiction.” International Research in Children’s Literature (Edinburgh UP), vol. 13, no. 2, July 2020, pp. 76–91.
  • “Picturebook Retellings of ‘The Three Little Pigs:’ Postmodern Parody, Intertextuality, and Metafiction.” Children’s Literature Association Quarterly (Johns Hopkins UP), vol. 44, no. 2, 2019, pp. 173–193.
  • “Authority and Power: The Peculiar Case of Ignatius and Other Picturebooks by Eugene Trivizas.” Special Issue: East Meets West, Bookbird: A Journal of International Children’s Literature, vol. 42, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1–19.
  • “Defining Children’s Metafiction: Authorship and Readership in Emily Gravett’s Metafictional Picturebooks.” The Lion and the Unicorn (Johns Hopkins UP), vol. 56, no. 2, 2018, pp. 43–51.
  • “Twisting the Story: Metaautobiographical Fiction in Margarita Karapanou’s Rien ne va plus and Amanda Michalopoulou’s Θα ήθελα.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Johns Hopkins UP), vol. 34, no. 1, 2016, pp. 103–129.
  • “Speaking and Remaining Silent about the World beyond.” [SIC]: A Journal of Literature, Culture and Literary Translation, Nov. 2011.
Book Chapters
  • “The Child Reading: Female Stereotypes and Social Authority in Sylvia Plath’s Children’s Fiction.” The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath, edited by Anita Helle, Amanda Golden, and Maeve O’Brien, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022, pp. 111–124.
  • “Metafiction in the Post-Technological Age: The Case of The People of Paper and MetaMaus.” Beyond Postmodernism: Onto the Postcontemporary, edited by Christopher K. Brooks, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 92–113.
Book Reviews
  • Review of Kallia Papadakis’ Dendrites. World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma), January 2025.
  • Review of Amanda Michalopoulou’s God’s Wife. World Literature Today (University of Oklahoma), January 2021.
  • Review of Melissa Terras’s Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature. Children’s Literature Association Quarterly, vol. 44, no. 2, Fall 2019.
  • Review of Theodora Patrona’s Return Narrative: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature. Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, Spring 2018.

Internal Grants, New York Tech:
  • “Book Project on Metafiction,” ISRC, AY 2025–2026
  • “Narrative Approaches to the Metafictional Picturebook,” ISRC, AY 2021–2023
  • “Women Writers as Fictional Characters,” ISRC, AY 2020–2021
  • Grants for Great Teaching: School of Arts and Sciences, Summer 2020
  • “National Identity and the Other in Children’s Literature: The Case of Greece and Turkey,” ISRC, AY 2018–2019
  • “Metafiction in Picture Books and Eugene Trivizas’s Metafictionality,” ISRC, AY 2016–2017
  • “Online Grammar Tutorials for International Students” (Co-P.I. Dr. Michael Uttendorfer), TLT, AY 2015–2016

  • WRIT 100 Basic Writing and Reading
  • WRIT 110 Basic Writing and Reading for International Students
  • FYSE 101 First Year Seminar, Special Topic: Short Stories, Podcasts, and Articles: Merging Fiction and World (new course)
  • FCWR 101 Foundations of College Composition
  • FCWR 111 Foundations of College Composition for International Students
  • FCWR 161 Foundations of Research Writing for International Students
  • FCWR 303 Communication for Art and Design
  • ICLT 304 Children’s Literature
  • ICLT 311 What Was Modernism?
  • ICLT 327 Literature of Initiation
  • ICLT 333 Postmodern Fiction (new course)
  • ICLT 334 The Graphic Novel and Memoir (new course)
  • ICLT 300 The Ethics of Survival: Power, Freedom, and Morality in Fiction

Contact Information

Email: lathanas@nyit.edu

Office: New York, NY