Nikos Mayrelos

Nikos Mavrelos is an Associate Professor of Modern Greek Philology in the Department of Greek Philology at the Democritus University of Thrace. His doctoral dissertation focuses on the critical work of N. Episkopopoulos ("The Cosmopolitans and the Fustanella Wearers: The Greek-Language Critical Work of Nikolaos Episkopopoulos," 2001). He has published an anthology of N. Episkopopoulos's short stories with an introduction (2002), an annotated translation of E. Poe's satirical short stories with an extensive introduction ("The Satirical Poe: Short Stories," 2005), a monograph on the work of Emmanouil Roidis ("The Tangible Palimpsest of Roidis' Writing: Issues of Literary and Cultural Theory," 2008), and the studies "The Province of the Nonexistent: Genres, Intertexts, Language, and Modern Ideology in 'A True Story' ('Anonymous of 1789')" (2016) and "Roidis' Tangible Images and Baudelaire's Paintings of Modern Life: Aspects of Modernity in Emmanouil Roidis' Works," LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, (2018). His studies have also been published in academic journals, collective volumes, and conference proceedings. His research interests include Modern Greek and Comparative Philology; Theories of Literary Genres, Aesthetics, Cultural Theory, Theory of Ideas, Theories of Intertextuality, Theories related to Prose (narratology, thematic, morphological approach, etc.), Theories of Modernity (17th - 19th centuries); 18th and 19th-century Prose and Criticism; Literature and Painting; Literature and Philosophy.