Academic Staff
Teaching responsibilities are assigned to staff members of the Department of French Language and Literature,
as well as to other scholars.
specialisation: Literature-culture
Professor of the History of French Culture, specializing in intercultural relations between Greece and France. Holding a PhD in General and Comparative Literature from Paris IV-Sorbonne, she is the scientific director of a research project focusing on Victor Hugo's influence in Greece. She has contributed to numerous research projects. As a guest researcher, she has participated in the DEA-FMSH project in 2022. She is also the President of SIHFLES (Société Internationale pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde) and the director of the journal Documents pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde. Her publications include monographs, edited volumes, book chapters, and articles, particularly on cultural exchanges between France and Greece, the history of translation, the spread of the French language in Greece, and the French-speaking press in Greece.
Teaching: Cultural transfers and mediations
between Greece and France
(1st Semester)
Helen Tatsopoulou is an Associate Professor of French Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, within the Department of French Language and Literature of the School of Philosophy. She earned her BA in 1982 from the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Athens and her D.E.A. (Diploma of Advanced Studies) in 1984 from the University of Paris-Sorbonne/Paris IV. In 2000, she completed her doctoral thesis on “French influences in some Greek Bildungsromane from the interwar period” at INALCO (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris). Her research focuses on French and Francophone literature. At the undergraduate level, she teaches French literature from the eighteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, and at the postgraduate level, she specializes in Greek Francophone Literature. She has participated in several international conferences in Greece and abroad. She is the author of three monographs and numerous articles published in scholarly journals and collective volumes.
Teaching: Francophone Literature
(3rd Semester)
Sotirios Paraschas is Assistant Professor of French and Comparative Literature. He has studied at the universities of Thessaloniki (BA, MA) and Oxford (D. Phil) and has taught at the universities of Warwick, Reading and at King’s College, London. His research interests include literary theory, nineteenth-century literature, the history and theory of the novel, adaptation studies, the history of the book and of the literary market, the history of literary property, medical humanities.
Teaching: Special Topics in Literature
(3rd Semester)
A Professor of European Literature and Culture at the University of the Peloponnese, she has been active in international conferences and has published articles in international journals such as French Forum, Women in French Studies, Francofonia, Neohelicon, and Dalhousie French Studies. Her selected publications include Voyages de femmes en Orient (Roes, 2007), Espace méditerranéen : Écritures de l'exil, migrances et discours postcolonial (Rodopi, 2014, co-edited with J.-M. Moura), and Voyage et Idéologie: Les politiques de la mobilité (Montrouge, 2022, co-edited with M. Alfaro and O. Polycakndrioti). She was elected as a member of the Board of Administration of the Conseil International d'Études Francophones (CIEF) for the terms 2004-2007 and 2024-2027. Her research areas include literatures of migration, travel literature, and francophone literatures and cultures.
Teaching: Migration, exile and diaspora in the Greek-French area. Historical and literary approaches (3rd Semester)
Maria Spiridopoulou is an Assistant Professor of French Literature at the Department of French Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has participated in conferences both in Greece and internationally, and has published articles on a wide range of authors, including Zola, Mme Dufrénoy, Assia Djebar, Gisèle Prassinos, Breton, Baudelaire, Eluard, Nikos Engonopoulos, Mme de Villeneuve, Mme de Beaumont, Balzac, De Musset, and Maupassant. She was awarded a research fellowship by the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme under the Programme “Directeurs d’Études Associés” (DEA) for 2023. She has also translated works from French and Italian into modern Greek, including those by B. Constant, Balzac, and Assia Djebar. Her research interests encompass women's writing and gender studies, comparative literature, surrealism, travel writing, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century French, Francophone, and Italian literature.
Teaching: History and Trends
in European Literature
(1st Semester)
specialisation: translation
A professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Athens, she has served as President of the Department of French Language and Literature from 2014 to 2018 and was the Director of the Master in Translation and Translation Studies from 2013 to 2015. Currently, she is the Director of the Master programme in “Greek-French Studies in Literature, Culture, and Translation.” She has published numerous theoretical texts on translation, both in Greece and internationally. Her translations include a significant portion of F. Pessoa's work, as well as works by Machado de Assis, Lobo Antunes, Romain Gary, Boris Vian, Octavio Paz, and others. She published Τα πολλαπλά κάτοπτρα της μετάφρασης [The Multiple Mirrors of Translation] (Nefeli, 2012) and edited the volume Πολίτες της Βαβυλωνίας [Citizens of Babylonia] (Nisos, 2021). She represents Greece in the European project TranslAtWar.
Teaching: Workshop 1: Literary Translation - Prose (2nd Semester)
Associate professor at the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). She is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Master’s Programme “Greek-French studies in Literature, Culture, and Translation”. She is a graduate in Philology with a major in Linguistics (NKUA), and she holds a BA, an MA and a PhD in Sciences of Language (University of Paris 8, France). Her main research interests and publications focus on the contrastive study of French-Greek, computational linguistics, lexicography, terminology, and translation. She is a member and the ex-vice-president of the Board of the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies, the vice president of the Hellenic Society for Terminology, as well as the head of the ISO/TC 37 standardization committee “Language and terminology” for Greece.
Teaching: Translation of Essay and Academic Discourse (3rd Semester)
An Associate Professor in the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Athens, Greece, she earned her degree from the Department of Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and her PhD from the university's Interdepartmental Postgraduate Programme in Translation and Interpretation. With many years of experience as a professional translator, interpreter, editor, and subtitler, she has participated in various research projects both in Greece and internationally. Her translations include the book Found in Translation by Nataly Kelly & Jost Zetzsche and the novel A Pedigree by Patrick Modiano. Her research interests are centered around translation, computational linguistics, and language technology. Additionally, she is a member of the Board of the Hellenic Society for Translation Studies.
Teaching: Research Methodology (1st Semester) & Workshop 2: Digital Humanities (3rd Semester)
Fanny Sofronidou is a graduate of the Department of French Language and Literature at the University of Athens and holds a doctorate in Translation Studies from Paul-Valéry University, specializing in the history of Greek translations of French literature. She has taught literary translation in the Departments of Language and Literature at both the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). In 2022, she completed her post-doctoral research at EKPA, focusing on the history of translations and translators of French literature in Greece from the 20th century to the present.
Teaching: History of Translation
(2nd Semester)
An Assistant Professor of Literary Translation in the Department of French Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she completed her PhD there in 2009, funded by a scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). She also completed her postdoctoral research in 2021 at the Department of Theatre Studies (NKUA), focusing on the interlinguistic and intercultural dimensions of theatre translation. She has taught courses in Literary Translation, Theatre Semiotics, and Creative Playwriting in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. Her recent research focuses on the theory and practice of literary translation, the history and criticism of translation, and the intercultural role of the translator as a recreator. She has published translations from French into Greek, as well as monographs and research articles, both in Greece and internationally.
Teaching: Literary Translation - Theatre and/or Poetry (2nd Semester)
