International Health Humanities Network Membership

Vinia Dakari is Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her doctoral dissertation, “Performing Cancer: Toward an Aesthetic of the Unpresentable,” explores the aesthetic aspects of the unpresentability of cancer in performance and its impact on spectators. 
She is the Greek Representative for the Arts Health Early Career Research Network (ECRN) and Working Group member of the Greek Cancer Society’s Centre for Support, Education and Research in Psychosocial Oncology, Athens. 
She is co-editor of the “Medicine and/in Theatre” issue of Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics. 
Her current research and teaching focuses on the intersection of art and health, Anglophone theatre, and American literature and culture.