Erasmia-Louisa Stavropoulou

Erasmia-Louisa Stavropoulou is Professor Emerita of Modern Greek Literature and former Head (2014-2016) of the Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The main fields of her research include 19th - 20th c. Greek poetry, prose and criticism with a special focus on the poetry of the Ionian Islands and interwar and postwar prose. Her research also revolves around the publication of Modern Greek prose and poetry texts accompanied by commentaries, the comparative study of Greek and foreign literature, the study of 19th - 20th c. Greek Press and the documentation of translations of Modern Greek Literature. She is a Member of the Hellenic Authors’ Society, the Greek Comparative Literature Association and the Society of Papadiamantis Studies. She is the author of A Bibliography of Translated Modern Greek Literature (1986); Panayiotis Panas (1832 - 1896). A Radical Romantic (1987) (PhD thesis) and A Reading Proposal on the Prose of an Era (M. Alexandropoulos, S. Plaskovitis, A. Frangias, M. Hakkas, D. Hatzis) (2001). She is also the editor of K. Hatzopoulos, The Short Stories, 1989; John Beratis, A Double. The Remainings of a Lost Book (2001); Dido Sotiriou, A Random Encounter and Other Stories (2004); John Polemis, An Anthology of His Poems (2005); Dido Sotiriou, Spartacus’ Children (2011) and John Beratis, The Black File (2015). She has published more than 130 articles, mostly papers delivered in conferences or published in scientific journals and collective volumes.