Voulgari Sophia

Sophia Voulgari is a graduate of the Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (specialization: Medieval and Modern Greek Literature) (1989) and holds a PhD from the University of London (1996). She completed her doctoral thesis at King’s College London under the supervision of Roderick Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, entitled: “Between and beyond Genres: the Poetic Prose of A. Embirikos, E. Ch. Gonatas and Nanos Valaoritis.” From 1997 to 1999 she taught Modern Greek Language and Literature at the Institute of Greek and Latin Studies of the University of Hamburg as an adjunct lecturer. From 1999 to 2003 she was a Research Associate in a research project on Greek bilingualism and its diachronic imprint on prose (director: Hans Eideneier, Professor of Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature) at the Research Center for the Study of Multilingualism, University of Hamburg. Since 2003 she has been teaching at the Democritus University of Thrace, until 2025 at the Department of Greek Philology. She has taught, at undergraduate and postgraduate level, courses on modern Greek literature of the 19th and 20th centuries, the theory of literature and its uses in the teaching of literature, issues of Comparative Literature, Comparative Poetics and Cultural Theory, as well as issues pertaining to Medical Humanities. She has supervised doctoral dissertations with a theoretical and interdisciplinary orientation (e.g. on contemporary autopathographies, crisis literature, representations of the popular classes in contemporary prose (auto)fiction, manifestations of and resistance to censorship).

Her research interests and publications concern modern Greek poetry and prose of the 20th and 21st centuries, the manifestations of modernism and the revival of avant-garde movements, mixed, liminal and hybrid genres, Comparative Literature, applications of literary theory (genre theory, psychoanalytic approaches, reader response theory, etc.), as well as contemporary trends that reflect concerns about the future of literary theory.