Persa Apostoli
She is a graduate of Modern Greek Studies at the Universities of Athens (B.A., Ph. D) and King’s College, University of London (M.A.). Her thesis focused on the European Picaresque Novel and its Traces in 19th Century Greek Fiction. She works as an Associate Lecturer at the Hellenic Open University (Department of European Studies: 2003-2010, Department of Hellenic Studies, 2010-). She has also taught Modern Greek and Comparative Literature for the Universities of Peloponnese and Patras and has participated in the following Research Programmes: “Modern Greek Literary Journals (1974-today)” (Centre for Hellenic Language, 2005) and “Women’s artistic and literary activity in Greek Periodicals 1900-1940” (Athens School of Fine Arts, 2005-2007). Principal research interests: 19th and 20th century Greek prose-writing, the press, comparative literature and women’s writing. Major publications: “The European Itinerary of the Picaresque Novel and its Traces in 19th Century Greek Literature (Transformation and Continuity)”, Neohelicon, xxxi/2 (2004): 53-61· “The Second Acknowledged Model of Gr. Palaiolugue’s O Polypathis (1839): F. Bulgarin’s Ivan Vyzhigin (1829), Comparaison 17 (2006): 53-61· “Women’s publishing activity (arts’ and literary periodicals 1900-1940), Women’s artistic and literary activity in Greek Periodicals 1900-1940, Gutenberg, Athens 2008: 205-250· Marietta Giannopoulou-Minotou, The authentic story of Pope Joan (ed.), Periplous: Athens 2011. She is a member of the Greek General and Comparative Literature Association.
Sophia Alexiadou
Born in Piraeus, Greece. BA in Italian Language and Literature. MA in Theatre Studies and currently a Ph.D. candidate in the same field. From 2009-2011 she worked as an assistant lighting designer with Lefteris Pavlopoulos. She has designed lights for more than 70 shows across different genres. Steady collaborator of Accademia della Luce in Rome. She is a Lecturer in Lighting at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts.
Sophia Gkinko
She is a PhD candidate at the department of Philology of the University of Patras. The title of her dissertation is: "The periodical Hevdomas (1884-1892) and its contribution to the intellectual movement of the period". In the same University she completed her undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The title of her undergraduate thesis was "The Issue of Suicide in Modern Greek Prose (1830-1940)" and her postgraduate thesis "Sculpting Poiese (1993-2007): Analytical Indexes and Presentation of the Journal". At the workshop of new researchers with subject "The Greek Periodicals of the 19th century; Research Issues-Conclusions of the Research" she participated with an announcement entitled "The translated literature through the paratexts in the periodical Hevdomas: 1st period of circulation (1884-1886)". In October of 2014, within the Program of Postgraduate Studies of the department of Philology at the University of Patras, she gave a seminar course entitled "Methodological Issues: Bulletins, footnotes, references and bibliographic systems". In June of 2013, for the course Relations of Intertextuality of the Program of Postgraduate Studies (Instructor: Stessi Athini), she gave a presentation with the title "The translation of literature in the periodical Hevdomas (1884-1892)". She has attended a course of specialisation in Translation at the French Institute of Patras, the program "Routes in teaching Modern Greek to foreign language speakers in Greece" by the Centre for the Greek Language and also the Book Workshop e-learning: Editing by National Book Center Of Greece. She has cooperated with the Hellenic Foundation for Culture in Tirana for the Organisation of the exhibition "Translated Book (in Greek and Albanian)" which took place in the National Museum of Tirana (20-31 March 2012), the bibliographic research and edition of the catalogue of translated books. Her research interests focus on Modern Greek Studies, Translation Studies and periodicals.
Sophia Denissi
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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Stella Kourmpana
She was born in Athens on November 1976. Very young she started to take ballet classes and later piano lessons. In 1999 she graduated from the Department of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens, where she studied History and Theory of Theatre. During her studies she worked at the Archives of the Greek National Opera (1998-9) and collaborated with the dance periodical En choro. In 2002 she obtained an M.A. of Theatrology and Musicology (Athens University-Ionian University) and started her research on the 19th century musical life in Greece. She is a PhD candidate at the Music Department of the Ionian University. The title of her thesis is "Aspects of Wagnerism in 19th Century Greece". She has published several articles on music, opera and theatre in modern Greece and she is a member of the editorial board of Mousikos Hellenomnemon, the quadrimestrial journal of the Hellenic Music Research Lab of the Ionian University. Since September 2013 she is in charge of the Athens Conservatory Archives.