︎ Elena Tzelepis


Elena Tzelepis completed her doctoral studies in Philosophy at The New School for Social Research, New York. She is an Associate Professor at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Volos. She has taught at Columbia University, New York, and as visiting faculty at various universities in Europe and North Africa. She has been a fellow and research collaborator among other institutions at the Center for the Study of Social Difference at Columbia University, New York, at Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, at The International Consortium for Critical Theory Programs, University of California, Berkeley. She has published on critique, deconstruction, and social change, on the intersections of politics and art, on the politics of difference, on vulnerability and embodied resistance in the postcolonial condition, on the political and the psychical, on nomadic cartographies, subjectivity and power. She is the PI of the Research “Antigones: Bodies of resιstance in the contemporary world”, https://antigones.gr/ (supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation).