Athanasios Dimakis holds an MA (with distinction) from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a Ph.D. (with distinction) from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He was the recipient of a doctoral scholarship awarded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. He conducted postdoctoral research for “Hotels and the Modern Subject, 1890-1940” (https://hotems.enl.uoa.gr/), funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2020-23). He worked as an Adjunct Lecturer at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024-25). He has contributed essays on E. M. Forster, Lawrence Durrell, Iris Murdoch, and Langston Hughes to Studies in the Literary Imagination (2018), The Iris Murdoch Review (2020), The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies (2021), and other collective works: Hotel Modernisms, Routledge (2023), Heresy and Heterotopia in Works by Lawrence Durrell, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (2025) and Re-Membering Hospitality in the Mediterranean, Palgrave (2025). He has co-edited Hotel Stories: The Rise of the Greek Hotel in Literature, Hellenic Open University (in Greek, 2023). The International Lawrence Durrell Society awarded him the William Godshalk Prize for new Durrell scholarship (2020). Athanasios has been appointed chairman of the organizing committee for the “Dark” Durrell international conference (2024) and elected Vice-President of the Durrell Society (2024-Present). He is currently co-editing a volume of selected essays on Durrell, forthcoming with Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. Athanasios teaches in the BAELL program at Hellenic American University as an Assistant Professor.
Chrysi Marinou earned an undergraduate degree in English Language and Literature, a master’s degree in Civilization, Literature and Ideology, and a Ph.D. in Civilization, Literature, and Ideology, all from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is now conducting postdoctoral research for two projects funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation and serves as a peer reviewer for the journal Lost Modernists. She has published her research in periodicals such as Literary Geographies, the Journal of Comparative Literary Studies, Pilgrimages: a Journal of Dorothy Richardson Studies (2015), and Mnimon: Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism. She has contributed essays to the Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies and other collective works. Her research interests include comparative literature, modernity, modernism, and literary theory.
Chrysi Marinou is an adjunct instructor at Hellenic American University and teaches in the BAELL program.
Cameron Bell is the Director of Civic Engagement at Hellenic American University (HAU) and assistant professor. In this role, he teaches university courses on risk management (ESG) and the contemporary politics of the Eastern Mediterranean, while managing the university’s service-learning program and supporting development and external relations. From 2018 - 2020, Cameron was associate director at Veracity, a risk advisory firm, where he provided private equity clients with transaction due diligence in the EMEA region. Prior to Veracity, Cameron was a visiting fellow at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, where he conducted field research on energy infrastructure and subsequently presented his work in Iraq, Israel, and Egypt. Previously, Cameron was associate at Consolidated Contractors Company and focused on project delivery and digital transformation solutions for energy projects. From 2009 - 2011, Cameron worked at the Hoover Institution for fmr. Secretary of State Dr. Rice, as aide and lead researcher on international politics and security, in the service of two books. He has delivered keynote remarks, organized international conferences, served on peer review committees, and been quoted in mainstream media as a passionate advocate for partnerships and international programs. Cameron holds an MS in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford University, an MPP from the University of Oxford (Balliol College), and a BA with honors, also from Stanford University.
A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design (BFA, Printmaking), Kim has lived in Athens since 2002, working as an art director, illustrator, and graphic designer. In addition to being an avid student of history and an often-disturbed reader of politics, he also writes his own music. He now teaches in the arts program as an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American College.
Stephanie Theodorou is a graduate of Georgetown University (BA) in Washington, D.C. and Temple University (PhD) in Philadelphia, PA. Her teaching and research specialties include Western Continental and Asian Philosophy, World Religions, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Epistemology, and Naturalism. She has taught a wide variety of courses, including interdisciplinary ones, in higher education for over 20 years and served as Director of the Honors Program at Immaculata University. Her published research includes studies on the role of metaphor and symbolism in cognition and consciousness in comparative (East/West) thought, as well as animal cognition and philosophical naturalism. Dr. Theodorou is an adjunct instructor who teaches in the General Education program.