Lia Gyioka

Lia Gyioka is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Art and Culture at the AUTh School of Architecture. She studied History at AUTh and Art History at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She has held scholarships from IKY (for study abroad), the Sarah Adeane Foundation (UEA 1998), the University of Chicago (2000) and the DAAD (SABK, Stuttgart – Freie Universität, Berlin 2016). She has taught at the University of East Anglia, the Norwich School of Art and Design, the University of Thessaly and the Hellenic Open University (until 2004), and has been invited to give lectures and seminars at the City University of New York, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Aalborg Universitet, Universitat de Barcelona, Lunds universitet, Tartu Ülikool, New Bulgarian University, Université de Liège, the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol and elsewhere.

She worked in translation and interpreting and at the BBC World Service radio before her election to the School of Architecture (2004). For twenty years she coordinated the module “theories of culture” in the inter-university postgraduate programme in Museology, AUTh and University of Western Macedonia (2002-2022). She is responsible for the cooperation agreement between the postgraduate programme Art in the Public Sphere and the Second Chance School at Diavata Prison. Her publications (in English, German and Greek) deal with European and modern Greek art of the 19th and 20th centuries, cultural history and theory, and semiotic approaches to art history. She is part of the editorial team of ekdoseis ton xenon, on the editorial board of the international journal of semiotics punctum, and Vice-President of the Association of Greek Art Historians