He teaches Literary Translation at the University of Athens (Assistant Professor, Faculty of Letters, Department of French Language and Literature) and History of European Literature at the Hellenic Open University (tutor, European Studies Programme). He was Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University for the period January-May 2011. He has studied Comparative Literature at the Universities of Montreal and Geneva (Ph.D. on "The Persistence of the Homeric Question", University of Geneva, 2002). He has worked and published on the history and theory of literature and translation with emphasis on the relations between literature, philology and history and a particular interest in Walter Benjamin. He is co-editor, with Valeria Wagner, of the issue on Disappearance of the journal Intermédialités (University of Montreal, 2008) and the author of the first volume of the History of European Literature (academic textbook of the Hellenic Open University). He has also translated a variety of texts into Greek: literature (Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Walter Pater) and theory (Fredric Jameson, Paul de Man). He is currently preparing the Greek edition of Gaspard de la Nuit of Aloysius Bertrand.

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