Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature
nkanavou@phil.uoa.gr
Nikoletta Kanavou studied Classics at the Universities of Athens (BA 1999) and Oxford (MSt 2001, DPhil 2005). As a student, she received scholarships from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation (IKY) and from the Foundations A.G. Leventis and Lilian Voudouri. Before moving to the University of Athens, she held a postgraduate scholarship from the Foundation for Education and European Culture (IPEP), an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and a fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg. She has taught ancient Greek language and literature at the Universities of Oxford, Cyprus, Crete, Heidelberg, and at the Cypriot and Hellenic Open Universities. She has also worked as research assistant on the Oxford-based project ‘A Lexicon of Greek Personal Names’. She currently teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at the University of Athens (Department of Classics) and supervises doctoral students on a variety of subjects. She has published three monographs, two co-authored books and ca 50 articles in peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes on topics related to her research interests (see Select publications and further http://scholar.uoa.gr/nkanavou ). She has presented papers at numerous conferences in Greece and abroad.
Research Interests:
Fictitious prose narratives, archaic Greek poetry, comedy, literary theory, papyrology, epigraphy, onomastics.
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