Tsapanidou Anastasia

Since 2019, she has been working as a Laboratory Teaching Staff Member of Modern Greek Literature at the former Department of Greek Philology/now Department of Humanities of the Democritus University of Thrace, where she teaches Modern Greek Literature and Comparative Literature. She is a member of the Laboratory of Byzantine Vernacular Literature and Post-Byzantine/Early Modern Greek Literature Hans & Niki Eideneier (“Eideneier Lab”) of the same Department, and responsible for the implementation of two of its research programs. She graduated from the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University with a specialization in Medieval and Modern Greek Studies. Subsequently, she prepared a master’s thesis on the 19th century prose writer Konstantinos Ramfos, a doctoral dissertation on the representation of Constantinople in Modern Greek prose of the period 1830-1880, and a postdoctoral research on the literary representations of the Constantinopolitan place of the period 1880 – World War I (in publication). Her main research interests include the literary production of the Greek diaspora in the East from the years of Ottoman rule to the mid-20th century, the reception of early modern Greek literature in Greece and the Balkans during the same period, the history of ideas of modern Hellenism, the popular literature, and specific themes and motifs in literary representation. Her articles and studies have been published in journals, conference proceedings, and collective volumes in Greek, English, French, and Turkish.