Kristina is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests fall within the fields of cultural memory, migration, comics and graphic novels. Kristina holds a DPhil from the University of Oxford, and has held positions as a Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam and Mary Seeger O'Boyle Postdoctoral Fellow at Princeton University. Kristina's first monograph Memories of Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture: An Itinerary, published by the Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series, examines the memories that shaped Asia Minor refugee identity, focusing on the ways in which these memories continue to reverberate in present-day Greece. Her current project examines Greek comics and graphic novels as a site of artistic innovation and social critique

Monograph

Gedgaudaitė, K. (2021). Memories of Asia Minor in Contemporary Greek Culture: An Itinerary. Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies Series. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Journal special issue

Gedgaudaitė, K. and Stroebel, W. (2022), eds. 1922–2022: A Century of Border-Making and Refugeehood, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 40:2

Book chapters and journal articles

Gedgaudaitė, K. (forthcoming, 2023). ‘Restorying the Greco-Turkish Population Exchange, the Partition of India and Palestine through Graphic Narrative: Hand-drawn Lines, Embroided Histories, and Portable Homelands, in Corina Stan and Charlotte Sussman (eds.) The Palgrave Handbook of European Migration in Literature and Culture, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Stroebel, W. and Gedgaudaitė, K. (2022). ‘Borders, Belonging, and Refugee Memory since the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange’, in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 40:2, pp. vii-xxxvii, doi:10.1353/mgs.2022.0021.

Robbe, K., Gedgaudaitė, K., Stuit, H., Thomas, K. and Timofeeva, O. (2021). In and Out of Crisis: Chronotopes of Memory, in Maria Boletsi, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Kasia Mika and Ksenia Robbe (eds.) (Un)timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique, pp. 51-76, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan

Gedgaudaitė, K. (2020). 'Comics, Memory and Migration: Through the Mirror Maze of Soloup’s Aivali', in Journal of Greek Media and Culture 6:1, pp. 91-116, https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00005_1

Gedgaudaitė, K. (2017). Blurring Boundaries? Negotiating Identity in Maro Douka’s The Innocent and the Guilty, in Liana Giannakopoulou and E. Kostas Skordyles (eds.) Culture and Society in Crete: From Kornaros to Kazanzakis, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 123-136

Kristina is one of the coordinators of the cultural analysis network Greek Studies Now that situates Greek culture, history and society within ongoing global theoretical, cultural and political debates. She also regularly contributes to media outlets aimed at broader audiences across different geographical contexts. Most recently:

Podcast as part of the Lausanne Project (interviewed by Julia Secklehner).

‘Van toneel naar witte doek: Mijn geliefde Smyrna, het mobiele geheugen en de vele hedens’ (‘From stage to screen: My Beloved Smyrna, portable memory and its multiple presents’), in Lychnari 36:3, pp. 14-17. Also published in Greek in the special issue of the cultural periodical Χάρτης and available here

'Memorias del Asia menor a través del cómic griego' (‘Memories of Asia Minor through Greek comics’), in Oriente Medio News, available online

'Atspindžiai, mitai ir performansai graikiškų komiksų puslapiuose' (‘Reflections, myths and performances in Greek comics’), in Literatūra ir menas 3722, 19 March. Also available online