EFTERPI MITSI

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0965-656X
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http://scholar.uoa.gr/emitsi

Efterpi Mitsi is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in travel writing, Renaissance drama, classical reception in English literature, and word and image relations. She holds a BA from the Department of English Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. 

She is the author of Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596–1682 (Palgrave, 2017), editor of Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader, and co-editor of Victorians and Modern Greece (British School at Athens – Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies series, Routledge, 2025), Hotel Modernisms (Routledge, 2023), Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave, 2019), Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel (Rodopi-Brill, 2008), and other essay collections. She has also co-edited three special issues for the peer-reviewed journals Synthesis (2013), EJES (2019), and Cahiers Élisabéthains (2024). Her recent publications focus on Shakespeare, Marlowe, representations of Greece in Victorian periodicals, and women travellers to Greece. She was a member of the research team for Hotels and the Modern Subject: 1890-1940 and Principal Investigator for the research project Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture, both funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (2019–2023).