Dr. Yianna Liatsos

Biography

EDUCATION:

1992 BA Anthropology and Philosophy, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA
1994MA Religion, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, USA
1997MA Classics, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
2005Ph.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

Publications

Book Chapter

2006

"Truth, Confession, and the Post-Apartheid Black Consciousness in Njabulo Ndebele's The Cry of Winnie Mandela'
Yianna Liatsos
Modern Confessional Writing: New Critical Essays

2005

'Historical Catharsis and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission'
Yianna Liatsos
Frontiers of Diversity: Essays in Contemporary Pluralism

Other Publication

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

2005

'Albert Luthuli' The Encyclopedia of the Developing World. Ed. Thomas Leonard. (New York: Routledge)
Yianna Liatsos

2004

'Chinua Achebe' Encyclopedia of the World's Minorities. Ed. Carl Skutsch (New York: Routledge).
Yianna Liatsos

2003

"The Politics of the New South Africa, by Heather Deegan" in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp. 90-92.
Yianna Liatsos

2002

"Myths and Memories of the Nation, by Anthony D. Smith" in Global Review of Ethnopolitics,pp 142-143.
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.
Yianna Liatsos

1997

"The Regards" by Alexandra Papadopoulou. Greece: A Traveler's Literary Companion. Ed. Artemis Leontis (San Francisco, CA: Whereabouts Press)
Yianna Liatsos

Peer Reviewed Journal

2008

"A New Bloodline: Antjie Krog's Autobiographical Prose and the Paradoxes of Belonging"
Liatsos, Y.
Safundi DOI: 10.1080/17533170802012261

2003

Guest Editor of double issue titled 'Revisions of Nationality and Cultural Identity in Contemporary Europe' and author of 'Introduction'
Yianna Liatsos
Dialectical Anthropology

2001

"An Artist's Choice, an Artist's Commitment: Reconciling Myth and Modern History in Nietzsche and Adorno"
Yianna Liatsos
Dialectical Anthropology