Chrisoula Lionis Read Bio Collapse
Chrisoula Lionis is a writer and cultural producer based between Athens and Manchester. Working at the intersection of visual culture, cultural politics, and resilience studies, Lionis holds a PhD in Visual Culture from the University of New South Wales and is the author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film (Bloomsbury 2016/2021). She has published widely including in the journals Social Text, Third Text, Cultural Politics, and the Cambridge Journal of Anthropology. Lionis is the codirector of the pedagogical platform Artists for Artists and is Research Fellow on the AHRC project “Understanding Displacement Aesthetics” at the University of Manchester.