Costantia Manoli

Costantia Manoli is a PartTime Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire Cyprus, affiliated with the School of Arts, Media & Communication and Department of English Literature. Her teaching portfolio includes modules such as A World of Difference: Literature in Translation, From Romantics to Decadents: Literary Culture 1789-1900, and Reading Texts: Literary Theory.

Research Interests center on Postcolonial literature and diversity in children’s literature, with a focus on how identity—particularly hybrid identities—are inherited, created, and represented in literary works. Her research is informed by her lived experiences as an immigrant and repatriated Cypriot.

Publications include the forthcoming The Fig Tree (2025), Tomatoes in My Lunchbox (2022), and collaborative works like Larnakes' Larnaka The Anthology (2021) and 100 Words of Solitude (2021). Her works span poetry, creative writing, and children’s literature.

Scientific Awards:

• SCBWI – Stephen Fraser Encouragement Award 2023
• Kirkus Best Book 2022 – 'Most Empowering'
• Bookstagang Best Book 'Future Classic' 2022
• Ezra Jack Keats Writer Award 2023 finalist
• Fulbright Scholar (undergraduate) 1998
• FLTA Lecturer in Greek Language and Cypriot Studies, Stanford University 2007-2008

Outreach and Consultancy:

• Advisor for 'Winds of Change' (2023)
• Bi-communal program leadership (USA, 2005-2007)
• CPD training in 'AI in Education' and adaptive learning (2024)