She is an Associate Professor in Literary History and Criticism at the department of Theory and History of Art of Athens School of Fine Arts and Vice-rector of Academic affairs since 2014. She teaches European literature as well as courses in art and literature. She is a graduate from the English department of Athens University (BA, Ph.D.) and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (M.A.). She has published on a wide range of nineteenth-and early twentieth century topics, including the novel and the short-story, fiction in translation, romantic journalism, autobiography, children’s literature as well as women’s writing. Her publications include: Academic Reading Skills, Athens: Hellenic Publishing, 1987; Sir Walter Scott and the Greek Historical Novel 1830-1880, Athens: Kastaniotis Publishing, 1994; Novels and short-stories in translation (1830-1880), Athens: Periplous Publishing, 1995; Seeking Invisible Writing: Women and Writing During the Greek Enlightenment - Romaticism (Nefeli Publishing, 2014) Petros Harris award of the Academy of Letters for 2014. She was the editor of the following publications: Identity and Alterity in Literature, 18th – 20th c. (in collaboration with Eleni Politou-Marmarinou) (2000), Women’s Artistic and Literary Activity in Literary and Art Periodicals:1900-1940, Athens: Gutenberg Publishing, 2008 and The Short-story in Greek and Foreign Literature, (together with Eleni Politou-Marmarinou) Athens: Gutenberg Publishing, 2009. She is also a researcher having collaborated with the National Institute of Research and the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Crete. Her research work has focused on nineteenth-century Greek novel and short fiction, late eighteenth to late nineteenth-century Greek women writers as well as Greek women’s literary and artistic activity in periodicals of the first forty years of the twentieth century.

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