Georgia Aitaki

<p>My research is defined by critical perspectives on popular culture, with a special interest in television fiction and reality TV. My current research interests revolve around television geographies, representations of mobilities, as well as questions of (un)ethical entertainment. I have authored a number of articles and book chapters which have been published in international peer-reviewed journals and edited anthologies, addressing diverse topics, such as white mobilities, feminist/queer nostalgia, noir television, the production context of commercial television, and TV representations of societal crises, among others.</p>

<p>My doctoral dissertation entitled ‘The private life of a nation in crisis: A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction’ offered in-depth studies of the fictional reconstruction and negotiation of moments of heightened societal tension in Greek television fiction since 1989 and highlighted the importance of studying “introvert” television cultures. It was nominated for the award of best dissertation within Media and Communication Studies by the Swedish Association for Media and Communication Research (FSMK).</p>

<p>I also serve as Managing Editor for <a href="https://www.viewjournal.eu/"><em>VIEW: Journal of European Television History &amp; Culture</em></a> and as a substitute member of the management team of the <a href="https://www.kau.se/en/geomedia">Centre for Geomedia Studies</a> at Karlstad University.</p>

<p>Originally from Greece, I moved to Sweden in 2013 to start my PhD at the University of Gothenburg. Before that, I completed a MA in Film &amp; Television Studies at the University of Glasgow and an MLitt in Literary &amp; Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen. After I defended my PhD thesis, I worked as a Lecturer at Gothenburg University, Örebro University, Stockholm University and Jönköping University. I got a position as Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University in February 2022.</p>

<p><strong>PhD Thesis</strong></p>

<p><strong>2018</strong><em>&nbsp;The private life of a nation in crisis: A study on the politics in/of Greek television fiction</em>, Doctoral dissertation, Department of Journalism, Media and Communication, University of Gothenburg, ISBN: 978-91-88212-75-7</p>

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<p><strong>Recent peer-reviewed articles</strong></p>

<p><strong>2021&nbsp;</strong>Aitaki, G. &amp; Carlsson, N. ‘Farmer Wants a (Swedish) Wife: White mobilities in the reality romance show <em>Bonde söker fru</em> – <em>Jorden runt</em>’, <em>VIEW: Journal of European Television History and Culture</em>, 10 (20), pp. 64–82, <a href="http://doi.org/10.18146/view.270">http://doi.org/10.18146/view.270</a><…;

<p><strong>2020&nbsp;</strong>‘In search of the Greek television author: The social dramas of Manousos Manousakis’, <em>Screen</em>, 61 (3), pp. 403–422, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/hjaa040">https://doi.org/10.1093/screen/…;

<p><strong>2020&nbsp;‘</strong>Making television fiction in a commercial context: Commercialization, ideology and entertainment in a production study of Greek private television’, <em>Journal of Greek Media &amp; Culture</em>, 6 (2), pp. 219–240, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00014_1">https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_0001…;

<p><strong>2019&nbsp;‘</strong>Laughing with / at the national self: Greek television satire and the politics of self-disparagement’, <em>Social Semiotics</em>, 29 (1), pp. 68–82 [Online First, 2017], DOI: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10350330.2017.1408893">10.1080/10350330.2017.14…;

<p><strong>2018</strong>&nbsp;‘Domesticating pathogenies, evaluating change: The Eurozone crisis as a ‘hot moment’ in Greek television fiction’, <em>Media, Culture &amp; Society</em>, 40 (7), pp. 957–972 [Online First, 2017], DOI: <a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0163443717734403">10.1177/0163…;

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<p><strong>Recent book chapters</strong></p>

<p><strong>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>‘Hormone Monsters and Animal Antagonists: Animating Teen Horrors and Promoting Eudaimonia in&nbsp;<em>Big Mouth</em>&nbsp;(Netflix, 2017-)’, in Karin Beeler and Stan Beeler (eds.) <em>Animal Heroes, Villains and Others: The Narrative Functions of Strange and Familiar Creatures in Film and Television</em>, Lanham, MA: Lexington Books</p>

<p><strong>2022&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong>Aitaki, G. &amp; Chairetis, S., ‘Greek Sleuths and Tough Cops: Noir Masculinities in Television Crime Shows (1992-2020)’, in Anna Poupou, Nikitas Fessas, and Maria Chalkou (eds.), <em>A Darker Greece: Film Noir and Greek Cinema</em>, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press</p>

<p><strong>2021</strong>&nbsp;Aitaki, G., Papadimitriou, L., and Tzioumakis, Y., ‘Locating and Localizing Media Industry Studies: The Case of Greece’, in Paul McDonald (ed.), <a name="_Hlk55021494"><em>Routledge Companion to Media Industries</em>, London &amp; New York: Routledge, pp. 107-116</a>.</p>

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<p><strong>Recent conference papers</strong></p>

<p><strong>2022 &nbsp;</strong><em>Everybody Hurts? Race, Class and Mediated Suffering in Reality TV Show</em> <em>Sweatshop: Dead Cheap Fashion</em> (with Vladimir Cotal San Martin). ECREA – 9^th European Communication Conference ‘Rethink&nbsp;Impact’, Aarhus, October 2022.</p>

<p><strong>2019</strong><em> Television revivals: On recycling and reusing television fiction in Europe</em>. ECREA Television Studies Section Conference ‘The Youthification of Television in the age of Screen Culture’, Groningen, 24-25 October, 2019.</p>

<p><strong>2017</strong><em> Private television through the eyes of its storytellers: Production logic and ideologies in Greek television fiction</em>. 67th International Communication Association (ICA) conference. San Diego, 20-25 May 2017.</p>