Dr. Penny Vlagopoulos

Penny Vlagopoulos specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first century US and global literatures, with an emphasis on multi-ethnic literature written after 1945. Her areas of interest include comparative ethnic studies, Latinx literature, border studies, countercultural movements, and issues of globalization. She has published articles on a range of contemporary diasporic writers and co-edited a collection of essays on food in modern outlaw tales. Her most recent article, "'A World Full of Doors': Post-Apocalyptic Hospitality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West," was published in Modern Fiction Studies (MFS) by Johns Hopkins University Press. Her article “Hospitality and Contemporary Global Fiction” is forthcoming in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Currently, she is working on a book that examines the ethico-political stakes of hospitality in our global refugee crisis. She enjoys teaching a range of contemporary topics that explore the intersection of literature and social justice, including courses at Riverview Correctional Facility in Ogdensburg, NY.