Villy Tsakona

Villy Tsakona
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Villy Tsakona is Associate Professor of Social and Educational Approaches to Language at the Department of Early Childhood Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She has published articles on various topics on humor research, narrative, political, and media discourse analysis as well as on critical literacy theory and applications. She has co-authored The Narrative Construction of Identities in Critical Education with Argiris Archakis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) and authored Recontextualizing Humor: Rethinking the Analysis and Teaching of Humor (De Gruyter Mouton, 2020); she has also co-edited Studies in Political Humor with Diana Popa (John Benjamins, 2011) and The Dynamics of Interactional Humor with Jan Chovanec (John Benjamins, 2018). She is co-editor of the European Journal of Humor Research. Personal webpage: http://www.concept-pl.us/villy.tsakona