EFTERPI MITSI
Efterpi Mitsi is Professor in English Literature and Culture at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in travel writing, Renaissance drama, classical receptions in English literature, and word and image relations. She is a graduate of the Department of English Literature and Culture, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from New York University. She is currently teaching courses on English poetry, Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Greece in Victorian literature. She is the author of Greece in Early English Travel Writing, 1596-1682 (Palgrave, 2017), editor of Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader (Bloomsbury, 2019), and co-editor of 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 four collections of essays. She is co-editor of three special issues for the peer-reviewed journals Synthesis (2013), EJES (2019) and Cahiers Elisabéthains (2024). Recent publications include articles on Shakespeare, Marlowe, representations of Greece and Greek women in Victorian periodicals, and on women travellers. She has just published a volume entitled Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters (ed. by Efterpi Mitsi, Anna Despotopoulou) στη σειρά British School at Athens - Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies, Routledge 2025. She was a member of the research team in “Hotels and the Modern Subject: 1890-1940” hotems.enl.uoa.gr and Principal Investigator of the research project “Representations of Modern Greece in Victorian Popular Culture” revictoproject.com, both funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation (2019-2023.
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