CV & Résumé

Below you’ll find downloadable PDFs as well as a text‑based overview of Elena’s academic CV and professional résumé. The summaries include education, work and teaching experience, publications, conference presentations, awards, skills and selected writing. If you need further details, please get in touch via the contact page.

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Education

• Columbia University, New York, NY (Aug 2023 – present) — PhD and MA in English & Comparative Literature. MA essay: “I cannot recollect it: Eco‑social Detritus and Forms of Reticence in Keats’s Poems and Letters from Scotland” (runner‑up, Miron Cristo‑Loveanu Prize).
• University of Oxford, Blackfriars Hall, Oxford, UK (Aug 2021 – May 2022) — MSt in English (1700–1830). Dissertation: “Repetition and Clare’s Lyric of Withdrawn Revelation.”
• University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland (Jan – May 2020) — Study abroad (API programme).
• Wagner College, Staten Island, NY (Aug 2017 – May 2021) — BA in English Literature (major) and Philosophy (minor), summa cum laude. Honors thesis: “‘Centre and Circumference’: The Status of the Object and the Formation of Aesthetic Experience in Shelley’s ‘Alastor’ and ‘Mont Blanc’.”

Work Experience

• Global EPR Researcher, Ecoveritas Ltd. (Jun 2022 – Jul 2023) — Researched extended producer responsibility laws worldwide; produced reports and articles; built Excel tracking sheets; delivered PowerPoint presentations and training; and liaised with internal and external stakeholders.
• Examination Support Assistant, Greene’s College Oxford (Apr – May 2022) — Supported administration of A‑Level examinations, prepared rooms and materials, and ensured smooth exam delivery.
• Communications Officer, Students4Students (Feb – Jun 2022) — Promoted the charity’s Oxford branch on social media and co‑organized a panel discussion on educational inequality with Oxford’s Department of Education.
• Peer Reviewer, Oxford Research in English (Oct 2021 – Jun 2022) — Reviewed submissions, produced written reports on content and style, and delivered feedback at board meetings.
• Communications Officer, English Graduates at Oxford (Oct 2021 – Jun 2022) — Managed the English graduate community’s Facebook page and organised events and social gatherings.
• Editorial Assistant, The Quill Project, Pembroke College (Mar 2022) — Proofread and digitally edited transcription work for the 1857 Oregon Constitution project.
• Publishing Trainee, Insight into Publishing (Oxford University Careers Service) (Feb 2022) — Participated in sessions on publishing career pathways and a group strategy exercise led by an Elsevier executive.
• Communication & Promotion Intern, Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (Apr – Oct 2021) — Created weekly social media posts to promote newly published articles and coordinated author outreach; maintained Excel tracking sheets for content workflows.

Teaching & Tutoring

• Teaching Assistant, Columbia University — Children’s Literature (Spring 2025) and Romantic Poetry (Fall 2024).
• Tutor of English, Students4Students, Oxford (Mar – Jun 2022) — Volunteered weekly at St Barnabas Primary School, supporting Year 5 students in small‑group and one‑on‑one sessions.
• English Language Tutor & Conversation Partner, El Centro del Inmigrante (Feb – May 2021) — Led weekly conversation sessions focusing on speaking and listening skills for adult learners.
• Writing Intensive Tutor, Wagner College (Jan 2018 – May 2021) — Met individually with students to strengthen argumentation, structure, grammar and citation practices.

Academic Publications

• “Repetition and Clare’s Lyric of Withdrawn Revelation.” European Romantic Review 36.1 (2025): 119–141.
• “Misreading the Air: Narrative Ambivalence and the Burden of Representation in Dinaw Mengestu’s How to Read the Air.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 55.3–4 (Jul–Oct 2024): 49–75.
• Article forthcoming in Early American Studies.

Conference Presentations

• “‘I cannot recollect it’: Eco‑social Detritus and Forms of Reticence in Keats’s Poems and Letters from Scotland” — Keats Conference 2025, Hampstead, London, UK (16 May 2025).
• “Aching Time, Slow Time: Temporality, Poetry, and Revolution in Keats” — North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. (17 Aug 2024).
• “Repetition and Clare’s Lyric of Withdrawn Revelation: A Twist on Allegorical Doublespeak” — Modern Language Association Convention (virtual, 5 Jan 2023).
• “‘Man, inwardly contemplated’: The Legacy of Enlightenment Universalism in Book VIII of Wordsworth’s 1805 Prelude” — Wordsworth Summer Conference, Cumbria, UK (17 Aug 2022).
• “‘Which goes away/When’: Repetition and the Object’s Resistance to Discourse in John Clare’s Lyric” — MSt in English (1700–1830) Conference: Connections, St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford (24 May 2022, co‑organiser).

Fellowships & Awards

• Columbia University GSAS Matching Conference Travel Grant (Aug 2024).
• Marjorie Hope Nicolson Fellowship (Aug 2023 – May 2029).
• Ena Wordsworth Bursary (Aug 2022).
• English Literature Prize, Wagner College (May 2021).
• Sigma Tau Delta International English Honor Society (Feb 2019 – present).
• Wagner College Honors Program (Jan 2018 – May 2021).
• Wagner College Dean’s List (Fall 2017 – May 2021).
• Wagner Plan Award, Wagner International Award and Wagner Housing Plan Award (Fall 2017 – May 2021).

Skills & Languages

• Documentation & editing (proofreading, transcription review, style consistency, version control); research & communication for multiple audiences.
• Tools: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint; social media publishing.
• Languages: English and Modern Greek (native/bilingual); French (advanced); German (conversational).

Selected Public‑Facing Writing

• Duration against Spectacle: Kristen Stewart’s The Chronology of Water — Film Obsessive (2 March 2026).
• Embracing Change — FMCG CEO Magazine (30 March 2023).
• Europe Takes the Lead in Sustainable Growth: Digital Product Passports — Sustainable Plastics (24 March 2023).
• 2023 and Packaging: What Have We Seen So Far — Manufacturing & Engineering Magazine (31 January 2023).
• What’s in a Name? Buildings and the Politics of Nomenclature — Cherwell (17 February 2022).
• Collective Security and Individual Freedom in the Covid Era — Cherwell (8 February 2022).
• The Life‑Sucking Vampire: Exams and the Logic of Capitalism — Cherwell (10 June 2022).