Rate My Professor Elsa Amanatidou

Amanatidou's research specializations include second language acquisition, foreign language and literature teaching methodology, multiliteracies, engaged and inclusive pedagogies, testing and evaluation, integration of literature and arts in foreign language curricula, critical literacies, technology-mediated language learning, and cultural narratives such as advertising, TV, humor, and graffiti for developing proficiency and interculturality in Modern Greek learners, including heritage speakers. Key publications comprise “TV and Advertising as Authentic Cultural Narratives” in The NECTFL Review (2017), the chapter “Anagnostakis revisited and revised: The politics of Reading and Re-reading” in Manolis Anagnostakis, Poetry and politics, Silence and Agency in Post War Greece (2012), and forthcoming “Dangerous things? Cavafy in the Modern Greek language classroom” in MLA Approaches to Teaching C. P. Cavafy (2023). She received the President’s Service Excellence Award (2020) and numerous grants, including from Mellon Foundation (2022), C.V. Starr Foundation, Onassis Foundation, and Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning. Elected multiple times to the Modern Greek Studies Association Executive Board, she currently chairs its Undergraduate Studies Committee and previously served as Executive Director of the Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (2016–2019). She is Pearson’s chief examiner for Modern Greek in the UK and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Educational Assessors.