Angeliki Koulianou

I’m Angeliki, and I graduated from the Department of Language and Intercultural Studies at the University of Thessaly in November 2024. I grew up on the island of Kalymnos, where I’m originally from, in what was (at least seemingly) a monolingual and monocultural environment. My first encounters with interculturality came through literature. From a very young age, I always had a book in hand—every day, and often all day. That’s how I developed a deep connection to written language and reading.
I speak Greek, English, and French. During my studies, I also attended Arabic classes, although I haven’t yet managed to speak it, even at a basic level.
My first intercultural experience was in the context of the ACTinPRISON research project, where we visited the Youth Detention Center of Kassavetia on a weekly basis, along with Volos Linguistic Landscape Research Group, a group created by our professor Roula Kitsiou, who opened for us new ways of thinking about intercultural communication. This experience in the prison was really transformative for me – it shifted many things for me, offering an experience of intercultural communication. At the same time, I engaged with non-formal education, as well as with language, mathematical, and digital literacies.
I’m incredibly excited about the notion of rhizome and my introduction to the philosophical work of Deleuze and Guattari, and I love the theoretical explorations of philosophical ideas, so the project Rhizo-Εduscapes is also for me a philosophical (cartographic) journey.