Kristina's research falls within the fields of contemporary Greek culture, cultural memory and refugee studies. Her most recently completed research project focused on the memory of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in contemporary Greek culture. Through a number of case studies and different media, the project discussed how family memories find their way into cultural representations and provide a language as well as a form for other reminiscences. At the same time, it showed how those cultural representations participate in wider transformations that occur in the public sphere. Besides her academic research, Kristina also enjoys international sports events, and she assisted in reporting on London 2012 Paralympic Games, World Rowing Championships, sports events leading to Sochi 2014 Olympic and Paralympic Games and served as a team liaison at Rio 2016.
Publications
'Comics, Memory and Migration: Through the Mirror Maze of Soloup's Aivali' (forthcoming, April 2020), in Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 6:1
'Blurring Boundaries? Negotiating the self and other in Maro Douka’s The Innocent and the Guilty' (2017), in Liana Giannakopoulou and Kostas Skordyles (eds.) Culture and Society in Crete: From Kornaros to Kazantzakis, Cambridge Scholars
Rosen S, Faulkner A, Agboola-Odeleye T, Chan E, Gedgaudaite, K and Kuo, Y (2009) A Quantitative Estimate of the Contribution of Voice Fundamental Frequency Variations to Sentence Intelligibility in Tone and Non-Tone Languages. (Proceedings) Assoc. Res. Otolaryngology Mid-Winter meeting 2009 : Mt. Royal, NJ 08061 USA
Faulkner A, Rosen S, Watt C, Gedgaudaite K (2008) Comparison of live-voice and computer-based training for upward-shifted vocoded speech simulating a cochlear implant. (Proceedings) British Society of Audiology Meeting Short Papers in Hearing and Deafness: York, UK
Conference Papers
'Smyrna in Your Pocket: Memory of Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture', University of Amsterdam, 14 November 2019
'(Un)timely Crises in Europe and Beyond: Chronotopes and Critique', University of Amsterdam, 17-18 October 2019 (participant in collaborative writing workshop)
'Introduction to Lithuanian Literature', University of Oxford, part of Literatures of Multilingual Europe lecture series, 29 May 2019
'Memory, History, Identity: Voices from Asia Minor', Vilnius University, 28 March 2019
'Smyrna in Your Pocket: Strategies of Framing the Memory of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)', Strategies of the Documentary, Third Conference on Contemporary Greek Film Cultures, Blickle Cinema, organised by the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, University of Vienna, 17 May 2018
Memories that Move: Affective Alliances over the Memory of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922). Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association, University of Copenhagen, 14 December 2017
Memory Wars and Their Ideologies: Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture. Modern Greek Seminar, University of Oxford, 23 November, 2018. This paper was also presented in GEM: The Gate to the Eastern Mediterranean Graduate Seminar on 24 January, 2018
'Memories that Move', Graduate Workshop Futures of Memory, University of Leeds, 15 February, 2017
'Comics, Memory, and Migration: Remembering the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922)' Postgraduate Training School in relation to the International Conference Locating and Dislocating Memory, COST ISTME In Search of Transcultural Memory in Europe Network. University College Dublin, 29 August - 2 September, 2017
'“At Times a Fairytale and at Times a Nightmare”: Descendants of Refugees from Asia Minor and the Cultural Memory of 1922', Society for Modern Greek Studies Graduate Research Colloquium, University of Cambridge, 16 June, 2016
'Οι μαγικοι καθρέπτες στο Αϊβαλί του Soloup και οι κληρονόμοι των χαμένων πατρίδων', Νοσταλγώντας το Αϊβαλί: Ταξίδι από το Ρέθεμνος στις Αλησμόνητες Πατρίδες και το «Αϊβαλί» του Soloup, Ιστορική και Λαογραφική Εταιρεία Ρεθύμνου, 19-20 March, 2016
'Smyrna in Your Pocket: History, Emotions and the Drama of Refugees', Graduate Workshop Renegotiating History in light of the ‘Greek Crisis’, University of Oxford, 17 March, 2016
Teaching
Modern Greek literature and culture, cultural memory, European cinema
Other activities
Student representative on the Executive Committee Board of the Society for Modern Greek Studies in the UK, 2016-2017
Conference convener, 'Crossings: Negotiating Borders and Boundaries in the Eastern Mediterranean', University of Oxford, 29-30 April, 2017
Member of AHRC-TORCH peer review college, 2015-2016