Christos Devetzidis holds a B.A in Communication Studies from the Mike Curb College of Arts, Media and Communication of California State University, Northridge in the U.S and an M.Sc. in Social Science Research (Communication and Media) from Loughborough University in the UK. His dream of teaching college-level courses at an accredited international institution was the decisive factor behind his decision to pursue an academic journey overseas at the age 18; in order to not only acquire the essential instructional skills for his desired career path, but to also bring himself closer to a multicultural and diverse environment, perfectly reflecting modern and diverse societies. He has also recently enrolled into Hellenic American University’s Doctoral program with his research interests spanning across health communication and gender studies. Christos teaches in the General Education program at Hellenic American University.
Konstantina Polychronopoulou is a composer, pianist, and music educator. She is currently a doctoral student in the artistic-scholarly doctoral program at Anton Bruckner Private University. She holds a master’s degree in "Science of Education-Music Education" from the University of Nicosia. Under a full scholarship, she graduated Cum laude from Hellenic American University with a BM in Music Theory and Composition. She has a Piano Diploma which she completed with honors and praise for Best Performance. She holds Harmony and Counterpoint degrees. She teaches piano at Ph. Nakas Conservatory since 2014. Moreover, she is a piano and theory teacher at the ABRSM. She has been teaching music theory and history at professional dance schools since 2013. Her main teaching approach is for dance students to be creative to explore and expand their movement vocabulary from all aspects of music. In January 2022, her book Music and Body, a musical handbook for student dancers and performers was published by Nasos Publications. She cooperates in chamber music concerts and her musical compositions have been presented in various venues in Greece and abroad in Germany, France, etc, by renowned ensembles and she collaborates regularly with acclaimed choreographers. She is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the BM program.
Gerasimos Artelaris studied physics at the University of Patras (BSc in Physics) and the application of natural sciences in archaeology at the University of Liverpool (MSc in Archaeology), with additional studies in sustainability at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Lund University. He is currently pursuing a second master’s degree in science communication. He taught archeoastronomy in the Department of Mediterranean Studies of the University of the Aegean and since 2018 has been an instructor in physics and electronics at the Training Directorate of Hellenic Aerospace Industry. He is also an amateur astrophotographer, actor. and theatrical director. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the General Education program.
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.