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Effie Yiannopoulou

Effie Yiannopoulou

Effie Yiannopoulou teaches English and Anglophone literature and cultural theory at the School of English at Aristotle University, Greece. She has an interest in twentieth-century women’s writings, Black-British and British-Asian literature, postcolonial and cultural theory. She is especially interested in questions of mobility (including migration), embodiment, race, national identity and community-building especially in relation to gender structures. She is currently Director of The Laboratory of Narrative Research (www.enl.auth.gr/lnr) which is based at the School of English at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and has co-ordinated its academic activities and events for the past three years. For a fuller CV see http://www.enl.auth.gr/staff/yiannopoulou.htm.
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plodge

The Scottish and English word plodging has been wading through the lexical muck and mire since the late 1700s, and it refers to icky, slow, molasses-type walking. Plodge is probably a variation of plod. This word isn’t totally out of use, as a 1995 use from British magazine The Countryman illustrates: “Northbound Pennine Wayfarers, plodging through the interminable peat-bogs of the North Pennines.” Even if you have a spring in your step, it’s tough to skip merrily through the peat-bogs. Credits to Mark Peters.

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