Paraskeyi Posantzi

Paraskevi Posantzi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Modern Greek Philology at the University of Athens. Her academic focus is "The Literature of the Greek Diaspora in the 19th and 20th centuries." Key publications include: 1. "The Prose of Spyros Plaskovitis: An Approach," Presence magazine, 6 (1987). 2. "The National School of Languages and Commerce of Constantinople (1909-1925)," Akti magazine (Nicosia), issue 36 (1998). 3. "The Poet of the City" Homer Bekes. Volume A. Constantinople 1886-1922. Published by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens 2006. [Book]. 4. "The Literary Production of the Greater Hellenism and the Greek Diaspora in the First Half of the 20th Century. The Minor Cases," Proceedings of the biennial Conference of Greek Studies, Adelaide 2003. 5. "Two Unpublished Letters from Kypros Chrysanthis to the Constantinopolitan Poet Homer Bekes," EEFSPA, vol. LE (2003-2004). 6. "Minor Greek Poets in the Ethnic Press of Constantinople (1880-1922). Representative Samples of Poetic Writing," Presence magazine, vol. IE'- IST', 2001-2003. 7. "Contribution to the Correspondence between Grigorios Xenopoulos and Alexandros Pallis with an Unpublished Letter from Xenopoulos to Pallis." Nulla dies sine linea. Approaches to the Work of Grigorios Xenopoulos. Edited by Introduction-Bibliography Giorgos P. Pefanis. [Tribute]. "Kostas and Eleni Ourani Foundation," Athens 2005. 8. "Benevolence in the East and its Contribution to the Dissemination of Greek Education (1861-1922). The Example of Efstathios Evgenidis." Published in the forthcoming volume titled EUEGESII [to Panagiotis Kontos]. 9. "Melis Nikolaidis and the Intellectual Life," microphilological magazine Nicosia, (issue 19, spring 2006). 10. "The Modern Greek Short Story in Constantinople (1880-1922). From Phanariot Folk Ethography to Urban Prose." (To be published in the Proceedings of the Conference of the Greek Society of General and Comparative Literature on "The Short Story in Greek and Foreign Literatures: Theory - Writing - Reception." (Athens, December 8-11, 2005).