Stavroula Tsouprou

Τsouprou Stavroula (Athens, 1968) is a Modern Greek philologist, essayist and literary critic. She studied in the Faculty of Letters of the University of Athens, from which she holds a PhD summa cum laude (2005). She worked initially in private education as a language teacher of Greek, English and French (she holds certificates of proficiency also in German, Italian and Spanish). In the academic years 2006-2009, as adjunct lecturer (P.D. 407/80) at the University of the Peloponnese (Kalamata), she taught courses in ‘Modern Greek Literature’, ‘Modern Greek Philology’ and ‘Comparative Grammatology’. Concurrently, over the academic years 2007-2011, she delivered postgraduate seminars on ‘Literary Theory’, in the Paedagogical Department of Primary Education / Section of Humanities at the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, in the Department of Black Sea Studies at the Democritus University of Thrace (Komotini), and in the Department of Philology / Section of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. In the academic years 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 she taught ‘History of Modern Greek and European Literature’ at the “Central Stage/ Mimi Denissi” School of Dramatic Art. In the academic year 2014-2015 she is scheduled to teach the course ‘Modern Greek Philology: 19th and 20th century’ as member of the Collaborating Educational Personnel of the Hellenic Open University. Her research is focused mainly on Literary Theory and its application to the analysis of literature. She has presented papers at over 30 International Conferences and Interdisciplinary Colloquia in Greece and abroad. Her publications include studies on a series of earlier and contemporary prose-writers, mainly, but also poets, while she collaborates regularly with the periodical and the daily Press, both printed and electronic. studies by her are included in collective volumes and periodicals. She is a member of the Hellenic Society of General and Comparative Literature, and the National Society of Greek Authors. She has published three collections of essays: Tasos Athanasiadis. Me ta matia tis genias mas [Tasos Athanasiadis. Through the eyes of our generation] and Oi “paidiastikes” istories tou Kosma Politi. Neraides, phreska koukia kai akousioi phonoi [The ‘childish’ stories of Cosmas Politis. Fairies, broad beans and involuntary killings] and Dokimes Anagnosis [Rehearsals in Reading]. The revised version of her doctoral dissertation (2009), entitled To Parakeimeno kai i …–(Dia)keimenikotita os Scholio sto pezographiko ergo tou Tasou Athanasiadi (kai ta 21 enkivotismena poiimata tou pezographou) [The Paratext and the …– (Inter)textuality as Commentary in the prose oeuvre of Tasos Athanasiadis (and in the 21 enclosed poems by the prose-writer)] was published by the Costas and Eleni Ouranis Foundation. Her first collection of Short Stories, They’re looking at you, circulated in spring 2013. Her book William Shakespeare, Hamlet. To keimeno tis parastasis tou “Peiramatikou Theatrou” tis Mariettas Rialdi, 1971-1972 [William Shakespeare, Hamlet. The text of the performance by Marietta Rialdi’s “Experimental Theatre”, 1971-1972)], Translation: Kosmas Politis, Editing – Notes – Postface: Stavroula G. Tsouprou, Athens, Nefeli Publications, 2014, was awarded the Commendation for a theatrological text, of the Theatre and Music Critics Guild, for the Year 2014.