SPYRIDON CHAIRETIS

Spyridon Chairetis is a DPhil/ PhD candidate in Modern Languages and Cultural Studies (Greek sub-faculty) at the University of Oxford. His doctoral thesis examines queer potentialities in TV comedy texts of the 90s and 00s and his general academic interests concentrate on LGBTQ cinema, television, literature and auto-ethnography. He holds a BA in English literature, University of Athens and has studied Contemporary European Politics (University of Bath, UK & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Creative Writing (University of W. Macedonia, Greece) at Master’s level. Spiros has co-organised conferences and workshops (University of Oxford & University of Ulster) and currently serves as communications officer at Student Anthropologist. He is gender/sexuality editor of E-International Relations and editor of Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities. He also writes poetry and his poems have been published in literary magazines and collective volumes.