THanasis Agathos

Thanasis Agathos was born in 1967 in Athens. He is an Assistant Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Department of Philology at the University of Athens. His research interests focus on 19th and 20th-century Modern Greek literature, issues of reception, and the relationship between literature, cinema, and theater. He has published studies on the works of Emmanouil Roidis, Alexandros Rizos-Rangavis, Spyridon Zampelios, Konstantinos Theotokis, Nikos Kazantzakis, Stratis Myrivilis, George Seferis, Odysseas Elytis, Angelos Terzakis, Vassilis Vassilikos, among others. He graduated from the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens, completed postgraduate studies in European Literature at the University of Oxford, and defended a doctoral dissertation in the Department of Modern Greek Philology at the University of Athens, titled "Female Characters in the Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis." He has worked as a teacher of Modern Greek as a Foreign Language at the Modern Greek Language Teaching Center of the School of Philosophy at the University of Athens.