Dr Angie Voela
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Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences. Co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society
Department of Social Sciences , School Of Education And Communities
Angie Voela is senior lecturer in Psychosocial Theory and Practice. She is the Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences and co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society.
Qualifications
- BA, MA, MSC, PhD
Areas Of Interest
- Psychoanalysis and feminism
- Psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender
- Psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, families, space and contemporary politics
- Myth in contemporary culture
OVERVIEW
Angie Voela (BA, MA, MSC, PhD) is a senior lecturer in Psychosocial Theory and Practice. She is the Research Degrees Leader for Social Sciences and the co-convenor of the Feminist Research Group (UEL). She is also the co-editor of the international journal Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Her research interests include psychoanalysis and feminism; psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender; psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, families, space and contemporary politics; and myth in contemporary culture.
Angie has published several book chapters and articles, in journals like Psychotherapy and Politics International, The European Journal of Women's Studies; Subjectivity; Somatechnics; The Journal for Cultural Research; Gender and Education and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, Studies in the Maternal, etc.
Her monograph Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture: After Oedipus, was published by Palgrave in 2017.
CURRENT RESEARCH
- Lacanian psychoanalysis.
- Feminism and psychoanalysis.
- Psychoanalytic and philosophical approaches to identity and gender with emphasis on the works of Jacques Lacan, Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler.
- Psychoanalytic and psycho-social approaches to culture, education, families, spaces and contemporary politics.
- Psychoanalysis, philosophy and myth in contemporary culture.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles and book chapters
- Voela, A. (2017) Loneliness: A Pharmacological Approach, in Sagan, O. & Miller, E. (Eds) (2017). Narratives of Loneliness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the 21st Century, London: Routledge.
- Voela, A. (2017), 'Family, Gender and the Emotional Economy in Tsemberopoulos' 'The Enemy Within', in Kazakopoulou, T et al (eds), Contemporary Greek Film Cultures from 1990 to the Present, Peter Lang.
- Voela, A. and Guaraldo O. (2016) 'If Not Now When: Feminism, activism, and Social Movements in the European South and beyond', in Guaraldo, O. and Voela A. (2016) (eds) If Not Now When?, Special Issue: Gender and Education, vol 28(3)
- Voela, A. (2016), 'It's time: generation and temporality in psychoanalytic feminism', Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, vol 21(3), pp. 242-258.
- Voela, A. (2016), Reflexivity, Austerity, and the Value of the Useless, in Psychotherapy and Politics International, vol 14 (1) pp. 25-37.
- Voela. A (2016) Radical, ethical spaces, in Shaw, B. and M. Humm (eds) Radical Spaces, Exploring Politics and Practice, Rowman and Littlefield, pp 129-144.
- Voela, A. (2016), 'Western Civilization Must be Defended: Neoliberal Values in Teenage' Literature, in Garrett, R., Jensen, T., Voela, A. (2016), We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 333-354.
- Voela, A. (2015), Wit(h)nessing the other's trauma: an exploration of Barbara Loftus's painting through the work of Bracha Ettinger, in O'Loughlin, M. (ed), The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting: Essays on Trauma, History, Memory.
- Voela, A. (2014), The Enjoyment of Space: The University in Students' Narratives and Photography, in Bibby, T. and C. Lapping (eds), Pedagogy, Culture and Society: Special Issue on Psychosocial Approaches to Education, vol 22(1), pp. 61-78.
Monograph
- Voela, A. (2017) After Oedipus: Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Myth in Contemporary Culture, Palgrave MacMillan.
Edited volume
- Garrett, R., Jensen, T., Voela, A. (2016), We Need to Talk About Family: Essays on Neoliberalism, the Family and Popular Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars.
Special issue
- Guaraldo, O. and Voela A (2016) (eds) If Not Now When? Feminism, Activism, and Social Movements in the European South and Beyond, Special Issue: Gender and Education, vol 28(3), pp. 315-329.
Older publications
- Tsilimpounidi, Myrto, Sampson, Alice and Voela, Angie (2014) Food Banks in East London: Growth by Stealth and Marginalisation by the State.
- Project Report. University of East London, Centre for Social Justice and Change, London.
- Voela, A. (2013) From Oedipus to Ahab (and back): Myth, Psychoanalysis and Science Fiction, in Burnett, L, Bahun, S and R Main (eds), Myth, Literature and the Unconscious, London: Karnac Books, pp. 81-100.
- Voela, A. (2013), Catastrophe Survived? The Failure of the Tragic in Moira Buffini's 'Welcome to Thebes', in Somatechnics, vol 3(1), pp. 133-148.
- Voela, A. (2013) In Search of Higgs Boson, in Bennett, P and J McDougal (eds), Barthes' Mythologies Today, Readings in Contemporary Culture, London: Routledge, pp. 57-61.
- Voela, A. (2012) Antigone and her Double: Lacan and Baudrillard, Journal for Cultural Research, vol 17(3), pp. 219-233.
- Voela A (2011) In the Name of the Father- or Not: Individual and Society in Popular Culture, Deleuzian Theory and Lacanian Psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, DOI 10.1057/pcs.2010.46
- Voela A (2011) Heterotopia Revisited: Foucault and Lacan on Feminine Subjectivity, Subjectivity, vol 4, pp. 168-182.
- Voela A (2010) Patterns and Scripts: The Revision of Feminine Heterosexuality in Feminist Theory and Literature. European Journal of Women's Studies, vol 18(1), pp. 7-18.
- Voela A (2010) Locating the Mother. Studies in the Maternal, vol 2(1). Mamsie.bbk.ac.uk
- Voela A & Stathi I (2008) 'Images of Femininity in Greek Cimena 1970-1990', Ulrich Meurer, Marilisa Mitsou, Maria Oikonomou (eds.): Mythos – Stereotyp - Ikone. Griechische Frauenbilder im Film. Muenchener Schriften zur Neogräzistik, Vol. 4, Ars Una Verlag, Neuried.
- Book Chapters Voela A (2008) 'Experimental Cinema: the Case of Prometheus Retrogressing', Ulrich Meurer, Marilisa Mitsou, Maria Oikonomou (eds.): Mythos - Stereotyp - Ikone. Griechische Frauenbilder im Film. Muenchener Schriften zur Neogräzistik, Vol. 4, Ars Una Verlag, Neuried.
- Voela A (2006) 'Masculinity as Moments of Becoming'. Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. Volume 1(2).
- Voela A (2005) 'The Construction of the Woman in Karkavitsas' I Ligeri', Vol 13, Modern Greek Studies Australia and New Zealand
- Voela A & Tamboukou M (2004) 'Enjoy their Symptom: of Women, Men and Other Interesting Figures in Greek Literary Texts', Vol 15(1), Women, A Cultural Review
- Voela A (2003) 'Death and the Real in Karkavitsas' Logia tis Ploris', Vol 9(1), Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora
FUNDING
Academic Grant Holder for Leverhulme Artist in Residence Barbara Loftus. Project title: Visualisation from Memory.
TEACHING
MODULES
- SC 3010 Who are you? Reading the Body Psychosocially
- PS 4004 Constructions of Identity
- PS 5002 Self, Culture and Society
- PS 6010 Psychoanalysis, Culture and Religion
Publications
The last four years of publications can be viewed below.
Full publications list
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- Killing Eve: Inflections of Rebirth and Pathogenesis in: Datema, J. and Voela, A. (ed.) Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s). Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp.19-57
- Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s) Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
- Running with Thieves: Baby Driver and The Beat My Heart Skipped in: Datema, J. and Voela, A. (ed.) Movement, Velocity, and Rhythm from a Psychoanalytic Perspective: Variable Speed(s). Taylor & Francis (Routledge), pp.98-120
- Lockdown, Conspiracy Theories: Inaction, Transmission, Stupidity in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.271-291
- Conceptualising the Lockdown from the Point of View of Chronic Illness in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.91-110
- Introduction: For a Psychosocial Approach to the Lockdown in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.3-27
- Addressing the Safety and Criminal Exploitation of Vulnerable Young People: Before, During and After COVID-19 and Lockdown in: Ellis, D. and Voela, A. (ed.) After Lockdown, Opening Up: Psychosocial Transformation in the Wake of COVID-19. Palgrave Macmillan, pp.151-171
- Seduction, Sharing Stories, and Borderlinking in Co-Constructed Narratives Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations & Interventions. 10, pp. 39-49
- On Not Being Able to Build: Thinking Space, Boundaries and the Other with Lacan’s Discourse of the Capitalist Architecture and Culture. 8 (3-4), pp. 420-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/20507828.2020.1789832
- Movement, Embrace: Adriana Cavarero with Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger (and the Death Drive) Hypatia. 36 (1), pp. 101-119. https://doi.org/10.1017/hyp.2020.49
- Care for the Other: Lessons from the streets of Athens European Journal of Women's Studies. 28 (1), pp. 42-55. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506820923705
- Creative failure: Stiegler, psychoanalysis and the promise of a life worth living New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics. 95, pp. 54-69. https://doi.org/10.3898/NewF:95.04.2018
- History, Fidelity and Time in Rhea Galanki's Novels The Journal of Modern Hellenism. 34, pp. 107-128