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chrisoula lionis THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER |
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Bio: Chrisoula Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens and Manchester. Working at the intersection of visual culture, cultural politics, and resilience studies, Lionis holds a PhD in Visual Culture (UNSW Australia, 2013) and is the author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (I.B. Tauris, 2016). She has published widely including in journals Social Text, Cultural Politics, and the Middle East Journal for Culture and Communication and has curated projects including Beyond the Last Sky: Contemporary Palestinian Art and Video (Australian Centre for Photography, 2012). Lionis’ has held several international teaching and research positions, including at the National Institute for Experimental Arts (UNSW Australia) in Sydney, a the Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, and most recently a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Manchester for Horizon2020 project Laughing in an Emergency: Humour, Cultural Resilience and Contemporary Art. Lionis is the Co-director of the pedagogical platform Artists for Artists and is currently a Research Fellow on Understanding Displacement Aesthetics - an AHRC project that analyses the impact of artistic responses to displacement and refugeedom. |
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