Georgia Farinou - Malamatari

Georgia Farinou-Malamatari was born in Athens in 1952. She graduated with honors from the Department of Philology at the School of Philosophy of the University of Athens in 1974 and from the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the same university in 1976. She completed her Ph.D. at King's College, University of London, between 1980-1983. In 1984, she began teaching as a specialist scientist at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, where she was appointed as a lecturer (1986), assistant professor (1990), associate professor (1995), and full professor of Modern Greek Philology in the Department of Philology (2004 onwards). In 2001, she served on the Organizing Committee of the National Book Centre of Greece/Ministry of Culture for the anniversary celebrations of Gr. Xenopoulos, Al. Papadiamantis, and Agg. Sikelianos, and participated as a speaker/coordinator at the 2nd International Conference on Papadiamantis. In 2004, she was the president of the Organizing Committee of the 11th Scientific Meeting of the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies (MNES), "Psycharis and His Era: Issues of Language, Literature, and Culture." In 2007, she was elected director of the Department of Medieval and Modern Greek Studies (MNES) at Aristotle University. In 2010, she was elected vice president of the Papadiamantis Studies Society and a member of the Organizing Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Papadiamantis.