Iris Gioti (she/her)

I am a literature and film studies scholar, having graduated from the PhD programme at the University of Exeter in December 2025.

My thesis title: Unravelling the Matriarch: Gender, Labour, and Ageing in Cultures of the Eastern Mediterranean Diaspora.

My research explores women’s migration and labour in the literature and film of the Eastern Mediterranean and its diasporic communities within the Mediterranean, the USA and the UK. My research interests are women's paid and unpaid labour, craft work, food production, folk medicine, reproductive healthcare, pregnancy and childbirth, and genre studies, particularly romance novels, romantic comedy films, and women's writing.

I have two forthcoming chapters in edited collections, due to be published in 2026 by Lever Press and Edinburgh Unviersity Press.

• «Έφαγα τον κόσμο να σε βρω» “I ate the whole world to find you”: food and intergenerational relationships in the diasporas of Greece, Cyprus, and Armenia
• Maiden's Cheek: Cultural Connotations of the Slap in Greek Cinema

My last published piece: "The Metastasis of Hysteria: Prescription and (Mis)Use of Librium in Literature" is available online from the Postgraduate Journal of Medical Humanities.