Anna Tampaki

Anna Tampaki is a professor of theater studies and theater history at the Department of Theater Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was born in Piraeus. A graduate of the Greek-French School "Jeanne d’Arc" and holder of degrees in Greek and French Philology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Athens, she continued her postgraduate studies in French universities (Université de Clermont II, now Université Blaise Pascal, Université Paris Sorbonne-Paris IV) as a scholar of the French Government, specializing in French, comparative, and Modern Greek philology. She was a student of K. Th. Dimaras at the Modern Greek Institute of the Sorbonne. She also received a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation. She holds a doctorate from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. From 1980 to 2000, she was a researcher at the Center, now the Department of Neohellenic Research of the National Hellenic Research Foundation, where she participated in numerous research programs and international collaborations. Since 2000, she has been a Visiting Researcher, and from 1997 to 2012, she was the Principal Investigator of the research project "Modern Greek Translations." She taught the history of Modern Greek theater (1995-2000) at the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Patras. In 1999, she was elected Associate Professor at the Department of Theater Studies at the University of Athens, and in 2004, she became a Professor in the same department. Since 2007, she has been a member of the Coordinating Committee of the Graduate Program, and from the fall of 2009 to September 2014, she served as its Director. In 2015, she was elected Chair of the Department. She has collaborated with the Hellenic Open University (HOU), initially as a critical reader for the first edition of the History of European Literature (2 volumes), and since the academic year 2010-2011, she has been working as a Professor-Advisor in the thematic unit: Modern Greek Theater (1600-1940) - Cinema. From 2003 to the spring of 2009, she was a member of the Provisional General Assembly of the Department of Theater Studies (School of Fine Arts, Nafplio) at the University of the Peloponnese. Her research interests include comparative literature, with a focus on the history of ideas, the study of translation phenomena, and specifically comparative dramaturgy and the history of Modern Greek theater, with an emphasis on the 18th and 19th centuries. In recent years, her research interests have also embraced the 20th century, focusing on issues of reception and theatrical translation. She has published, alone or in collaboration, twenty-four (24) independent books (monographs and collective works) and about one hundred and fifty (150) papers, book reviews, and essays in reputable Greek and international journals (such as O Eranistis, Hellenika, Syngkrisi / Comparaison, Paravasis / Parabasis, Etudes Balkaniques, Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Europeennes, Synthesis, Neohelicon, Studies on Voltaire and the 18th century, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, etc.), in the daily press, and in cultural supplements (To Vima, Kathimerini, Eleftherotypia).