Eleftheria Arapoglou

Eleftheria Arapoglou (B.A. in English; M.A. in English; Ph.D. in American Literature and Culture) has been teaching for the American Studies Department at UC Davis since 2012 and is a First-Gen faculty. Before that, she taught for Aristotle University and Anatolia College in Greece. She has received several fellowships and scholarships, such as from the Fulbright Program, from the Friends of the Princeton University Library, and from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation. She has co-edited six volumes and has contributed as an assistant editor to two special issues of the journal GRAMMA. Her monograph A Bridge over the Balkans: Demetra Vaka Brown and the Tradition of “Women’s Orients” was published in 2011, while her most recent publications are: Mobile Narratives: Travel, Migration, and Transculturation (Routledge, 2013) and Racial and Ethnic Identities in the Media (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). Professor Arapoglou teaches courses on autobiography, US popular culture, race, culture, and society, as well as various special topics seminars. She serves on the Global Education for All Steering Committee, the Curriculum Subcommittee, and the Global Studies Minor Committee. Her research interests include life writing, representations of race, class, and gender in US popular culture, immigration and the American Dream, and transnational American Studies. She is a member of the advisory board of MESEA (The Society for Multi-Ethnic Studies: Europe and the Americas).