Dr Elena Violaris
Junior Research Fellow in English
Dr Elena Violaris is a Junior Research Fellow in English at St Edmund Hall and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow. She joined the Hall on 1 October 2023.
Elena’s next research project is a comparative study of contemporary British postmigrant literatures. Her previous work has explored media and migration, chaos theory, games, play, tragedy and semiotics.
Violaris, Elena, ‘One More Spiral in the Simulacrum: Jean Baudrillard’s Games with Reality’, Baudrillard Now, 5.1 (2024), 48–64.
Violaris, Elena, ‘Induction, Deduction and Visual-Spatial Perception: The Finnegans Wake Intelligence Test’, James Joyce Quarterly, 60.4 (2023), 550-566.
Violaris, Elena, ‘The Sweet Shop and the Toy Shop: Consumption, Sign and Play in the Confectionery Industry’, Critical Quarterly, 64.3 (2022), 107–126.
Violaris, Elena, ‘The Crown: an Immigrant that Made all Immigrants Natives’, CRASSH: Global Conversations, 192–203.
Violaris, Elena, ‘An Undoing of Pattern or a Pattern of Undoing? Sin, Folly and Chaos in Shakespeare’s King Lear’, Shakespeare, 17.2 (2021), 165–183.
Violaris, Elena, ‘The Semiotics of Emoji: Infinite Jest and the Yellow Smiley Face’, Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, 61.2 (2019), 193–205.
Violaris, Elena, ‘Imagining Imagination in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, Shirley and Villette’, Durham English Review, 5.1 (2018), 1–36.
Where next?
English Language and Literature
Melting Pots, Salad Bowls and Kaleidoscopes: Unpacking Metaphors for Multiculturalism
20 Feb 2024
Dr Elena Violaris
BA, MPhil, PhD
- Junior Research Fellow in English
- Leverhulme Early Career Fellow