Dr. Yianna Liatsos
Currently On leave Spring 2012
Responsibilities
- Lecturer in English
Academic and Professional Background
- 1992: B.A. in Anthropology/Philosophy, University of Maine
- 1994: MA in Religion, Syracuse University
- 1997: MA in Classics, Ohio State University
- 2005: Ph.D. in Comparative Literature, Rutgers—The State University of New Jersey
- 2005-10: Assistant Professor of English, University of Oklahoma
- 2007-2008: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- 2009-present: Lecturer in English, University of Limerick
Research Interests
- Post-Apartheid South African culture
- Postcolonial Literature and Theory, predominantly focused on Africa
- Memory Studies, with emphasis on self-referential genres (autobiography, memoir, testimony), family memory, women’s memory, and trauma theory
- Discourses of Nationalism, Human Rights and Cosmopolitanism
- Critical theory
Selected Publications
- 2011: editor, Family Memory-Work: Writing the Home in Contemporary African Literature (Africa World Press)
- “A New Bloodline: Antjie Krog’s Autobiographical Prose and the Paradoxes of Belonging” in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies (Vol 9, 2, April 2008), 127-153.
- “Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela” in Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays, Jo Gill, Ed. (New York: Routledge, 2006), 115-136.
- “Historical Catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission” in Frontiers of Diversity: Essays in Contemporary Pluralism, Avery Plaw, Ed. (Netherlands: Rodopi Press, 2005), 171-190.