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Effie Quattrociocchi

Effie Quattrociocchi

2022 Lecturer in Communications

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B.A., Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, 2008
M.A., Aristotle University, 2012

Effie Quattrociocchi teaches intercultural communication, public speaking and English composition. She holds degrees in Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens, Greece and in Culture and Communication from the Department of Journalism and Mass Media at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. Quattrociocchi’s graduate research focused on cultural diplomacy, peace journalism, and the role of mass media in representation and intercultural conflict. She has worked extensively in the non-profit sector serving refugees and asylum seekers in Greece and the United States with organizations such as the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the International Rescue Committee. 

While teaching communications in the United States, Effie Quattrociocchi worked with the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth where she studied art history and produced videos in art analysis through the series Being There: Slow Art. She works as a freelance ghostwriter and a translator from Italian and Modern Greek to English. Currently, she focuses her research on curatorial practices, intercultural representation and identity politics in the visual arts and literature.