Vinia Dakari, PhD, is Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her research focuses on the critical turn in the cross-disciplinary field of the Medical Humanities with special emphasis on the aesthetics and reception of cancer-related performance in and beyond Greece. Her scholarly work has been presented in a number of international conferences and published in such academic journals as Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, and GrammaJournal of Theory and Criticism, as well as edited collections. She is co-editor of #17 special topic issue (“Medicine and/in Theatre”) of Critical Stages/Scènes Critiques, the online journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics (IATC).She is also a member of the of the Center for Support, Education and Research in the Psychosocial Oncology Working Group of the Hellenic Cancer Society and Regional Representative of the UK-based Arts Health Early Career Research Network.