She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Athens. Awarded a scholarship from the Academy of Athens, she conducted her PhD thesis as a fellow at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice. The thesis (Cretan Comedy and everyday life: The relation between stage image and society in the Venetian ruled Candia, Athens-Venice 2011) was published in 2011 by the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice. Gogo K. Varzelioti has conducted archival research in Greece and Italy and in the period 2004-2009 she worked at the Academy’s of Athens Research Centre for Medieval and Modern Hellenism as a research collaborator. She has participated in national and international conferences in Greece and abroad, she has published papers in scientific journals and volumes, and has edited publications of historical and theatrological interest. Her research interests include the history and archival documentation of theatre in areas of the Greek region under Frankish and Venetian rule (16th-18th century Crete, Ionian Islands, and the Aegean Sea), the reception of theatrical texts in the same era and comparison to their contemporary European drama. She is also interested in the study of the social and cultural aspects of life in the Latin-ruled areas of the Greek region, and their association with the theatrical texts, the theatre in Venice between the 16th and the 18th century, everyday life in Crete under Venetian rule, the publication of historical resources etc.
