Dimakis, Athanasios

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.