Dr. Roupakia’s research-interests centre on approaches to individuality and social identity developed in the disciplines of political theory, cultural criticism, postcolonial theory and moral philosophy. She has taught undergraduate tutorial courses at Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2007) and has conducted undergraduate entrance exams for Oxford University. Dr. Roupakia has also taught undergraduate courses for the Stanford-Oxford exchange Programme (“The Stanford Programme”) at the University of Oxford (2008). Recently, Dr. Roupakia was appointed temporary lecturer at the University of Patras, Greece (2010).

Dr. Roupakia is an active member of MESEA (Multi-Ethnic Studies in Europe and America), HASE, and ESSE. Her written work has focused on questions of cultural translation and multicultural belonging. She has researched the ethics and politics of novels as important counter-narratives to texts that narrate national time with the aim of producing a static, juridical view of citizenship and ‘the nation’. Dr. Roupakia’s latest research examines the ethics of literary reading in relation to the current globalization of social identities. Cultural mixings and crossovers are facilitating the distribution of the institutional features of modernity across cultures. The call today is for an understanding of difference as dynamic and transformative, with a renewed emphasis on dialogue and reciprocity within the practice of democratic institutions.