Spiros Chairetis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Communication, Media, and Culture at Panteion University, and he is currently serving as Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam for the academic year 2023-2024. He obtained his BA in English literature from the University of Athens in 2010, followed by an MA in European Studies from the University of Bath & Carlos III University of Madrid in 2013, and another MA in Creative Writing from the University of Western Macedonia in 2022. In 2021, Chairetis completed his DPhil at the University of Oxford. His dissertation, which draws on feminist, queer, and genre studies, offers alternative readings of Greek television comedy from the 1990s and 2000s. The revised version of his dissertation has been transformed into a monograph scheduled for publication by Palgrave Macmillan in 2024. Chairetis has contributed to the writing of Erasmus+, INTERREG, and HORIZON proposals and has worked as a project manager on European projects focusing on social precarity in traditionally vulnerable populations, gender violence/inequality, and adult education. His research interests include television genres, representations of gender, sexuality, fatness, and social class in television and cinema, the relationship between television and its viewers, the role of nostalgia in the reinterpretation of past cultural texts, and queer reappropriations of urban space. He has published relevant articles in academic journals (Journal of European Television History and Culture and Frames Cinema Journal) and collective volumes (Edinburgh University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, McFarland, and Themelio). Ιn June 2023, he published his debut poetry book titled The Merman and Other Creatures through Thraca.
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