Maria Nikolopoulou

  • Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2020–21
    • Laboratory and Teaching Staff member of the Department of Philology, National and Κapodistrian University of Athens


Research topic during fellowship: The reception of American literature in Greece in the long 1960s and the perception of Greece in the poetry of the Beats.


Maria Nikolopoulou belongs to the Laboratory and Teaching Staff of the Department of Philology, National and Κapodistrian University of Athens, where she teaches Modern Greek literature. She studied Classics and Modern Greek Philology at the National and Κapodistrian University of Athens. She obtained an MA and a Ph.D. in Modern Greek Literature in the Department of Modern Greek Studies, King's College London (supervisor: Prof. Roderick Beaton), as a scholarship recipient. She was a Regional Associate Fellow of the Nexus Project "How to think about the Balkans" run by the Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia and a Fellow in the research project "Women’s literary and artistic activity in Greek literary and art periodicals: 1900-1940", run by the Athens School of Fine Arts. She has taught European and Modern Greek Literature at the University of Patras and the Greek Open University. Her research interests include the reception of women’ s writing, the role of literature in the construction of memory of historical events, the role of periodicals in history of ideas and the post-war avant-garde. She has participated in international conferences and has contributed to peer-reviewed volumes and journals on her field.