Sophia Denissi is Full Professor in Literary History and Criticism at the Department of Theory and History of Art at the Athens School of Fine Arts. She teaches European literature as well as courses in art and literature. She is a graduate of the English Department of Athens University (BA, Ph.D.) and the University of Massachusetts in Amherst (M.A.). She has published on a wide range of nineteenth and early twentieth century topics, including the novel and the short-story, fiction in translation, romantic journalism, autobiography, children’s literature as well as women’s and gender writing.  Her publications include: Sir Walter Scott and the Greek Historical Novel 1830-1880, (1994); Novels and Short-Stories in Translation (1830-1880), (1995); Identity and Alterity in Literature, 18th – 20th c., edt. (2000); Women’s Artistic and Literary Activity in Literary and Art Periodicals:1900-1940, edt. (2008); The Short-Story in Greek and Foreign Literature, edt. (2009); Tracing the “Invisible” Writing, Women and Writing in the years of Greek Enlightenment and Romanticism (1780-1880), Athens: Nefeli Publishing, 2014 (Award of the Academy of Letters); Using the Pen as Sword: 19th Century Greek Women’s Writings for the 1821 War of Greek Independence. (Forthcoming in 2023, Patakis Publishing).

As a researcher she has collaborated with the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Crete and was project coordinator from 2005 to 2008 of the program “Gender-Pythagoras II: Women’s Artistic and Literary Presence in Literary and Art Periodicals: 1900-1940” supported by the Operational Program for Education and Initial Vocational Training. Her research work has focused on the nineteenth-century Greek novel and short fiction, late eighteenth to late nineteenth-century Greek women writers, as well as on Greek periodical press from the nineteenth century to the beginning of twentieth century. She is a member of the Greek and the International Comparative Literature Association, of the Greek and International federation for Research in Women’s History, of the Papadiamantis Literary Society and of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Books. She was Vice-rector of the School of Fine Arts from 2015-2019. From 2020-2022 she was Vice-president at the Committee of Literary Awards of the Ministry of Culture. Currently she is member of the Board of Trustees of the Delphi European Cultural Centre.

Email: sdenissi@asfa.gr