ELISAVET ARSENIOU

Elizabeth Arseniou is a Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University of Athens, Greece. She received her M.Phil and Ph.D. in Modern Greek Studies at the Centre for Ottoman, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Studies at The University of Birmingham, UK. She has taught Modern Greek Literature and Culture in Greece (University of Crete and Thrace), England and the U.S.A. Publications on modernist, avant-garde, postmodernist poetry and poetics: Books 2025: Elisavet Arseniou (ed., intro., addendum) Nikos Engonopoulos, À Revoir Theophilos; 2021: Nikos Engonopoulos and the Revolution of 1821; 2018: Seven studies on C.P. Cavafy (ed. and intro.), Cultural Poetry: the Glocal Writing of Demosthenes Agrafiotis; 2016: C.P Cavafy: The Value of Poetry; 2012: Practical Introduction to the Study of Modern Greek Literature: Terms, Methods, Theory; 2009: The Rhetoric of Utopia: Studies for the Transition to a New Avant-garde (five essays on the work of Andreas Empeirikos); 2008: Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: Objects, Foods, Rooms, Translation and introduction; 2003: Aspirants and Makers: Journals, Texts and Movements in Postwar Greek Literature; 1995: Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde: Greek Literary Experimentation in the early 1960s (the Case of the Journal Pali), the University of Birmingham. Poetry 2025: My Daughter Writes Directly in English; 2011: A Poem on Iliad (Miliad); 2005: A Poem on Odyssey, (Odysshe, text of a siege).