Alkisti Kallinikou (PhD student)
Thesis title: Oddballs and prodigies: The representation and reception of gifted characters in children’s and young adult literature (working title)
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Moray House School of Education and Sport, IECS
- City
- University of Edinburgh (Holyrood Campus)
- Post code
- EH8 8AQ
Qualifications
- MA Creative Writing, Hellenic Open University
- BA English, University of London
Current research interests
My PhD research investigates representations of giftedness in children's and young adult literature, using critical content analysis and reader-response approaches. My main interests lie in the ways literature can influence readers in understanding themselves and how stories and narratives can cultivate empathy, compassion and belongingness towards different forms of diversity.Participant
- Roundtable participant, Conjuring Creatures (and Worlds) in YA Fantastika, GIFCon 2024: Conjuring creatures and worlds, University of Glasgow, May 17, 2024.
Papers delivered
- Kallinikou, A. (2024, November). “Gifted minds: Rethinking Neurodiversity in Young Adult Literature and Culture”. Paper presented at the 121st Annual PAMLA Conference (panel presiding officer: Dr Kenneth Kidd), Palm Springs, USA. (Received Margaret H. Sedenquist Scholarship Award)
- Kallinikou, A. (2024, June). "'All I need is me, right?': Cultivating empathy through Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe". Poster presented at the Care, Community, and Hope: Hybrid Children's and Young Adult Literature Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
- Kallinikou, A. (2024, May). "'I don’t want to be an oddball': Marginalized Gifted Children in Madeleine L’Engle’s Wrinkle in Time". Paper presented at the Inklings-Gesellschaft Symposium, Schloss Malberg, Malberg, DE.