Antigoni Vlavianou

Antigoni Vlavianou holds a degree in French & Greek Philology from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a Ph.D. in General & Comparative Literature from the Sorbonne University (Paris III). Specializing in distance education, she taught Modern Greek Literature with comparative perspectives for several years at the Distance Education Center of the University of Burgundy (Dijon, France). She is an Associate Professor of European Literature History at the Hellenic Open University and the General Secretary of the Board of the Hellenic Society for General & Comparative Literature. Her main body of writing and research focuses on the comparative study of European Literature (19th-21st centuries), urban space in prose, genre variations of the short story, and transformations of autobiographical discourse. In 2017, she was honored by the French Ministry of Education with the distinction of Knight of the Order of Academic Palms. Among other contributions, she edited the following tributes in the magazine Nea Estia: 1. "Nasos Detsortzis," issue 1863, September 2014, pp. 48-120. 2. "Menis Koumandareas," issue 1867, Christmas 2015, pp. 1010-1150. 3. "Dimitris Analis," issue 1869, June 2016, pp. 357-413. 4. "Jean Cocteau - A Heretical Charioteer of European Art," standalone issue 1879, December 2018, pp. 715-873.