Afroditi Kairaki is a researcher and teacher of film studies. She studied Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and Mass Communication at Panteion University. Her doctoral thesis (Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) concerned the comparative study of the short form in literature and cinema (short story and short film).
She has contributed to publications of collected volumes (“Creators and thinkers: George Theotokas-I.M. Panagiotopoulos-Angelos Terzakis”, 2022; I.M. Panagiotopoulos, “Highlighting bridges of communication between teaching and art in modern school”, 2019; Ars Libri, “12 short scripts”, 2012; t-short, among others) and magazines ("Postmodern cinema and the end of grand narratives," Utopia, "I.M. Panagiotopoulos on the small screen: the television adaptation of the novel Starlight," Porfyras, among others). In 2021, she published the book “Postmodernism and New Hollywood” by Egokeros Publications. Currently, an essay on the history of short film in Greece is pending publication.
Her lecture presentations concern postmodern cinema, the interdisciplinarity of cinema and literature, and social representations in cinema and the history of short films. Afroditi Kairaki also participates in film productions (assistant director, production management) and has directed two short films with entries in the Drama Short Film Festival and the Chalkida Documentary Festival.
The aim of her postdoctoral research is the critical reading of Greek films of the period 1955-1970 that contain potentially disturbing content of sexual abuse and categorizing them in an online database. The postdoctoral study aspires to raise a critical reflection on the mechanisms of reproduction of sexist behavior patterns that shape and strengthen rape culture in Greek society and also aims to institutionalize trigger and/or content warnings in the ongoing television screening of these films.
