Stamatis N. Filippidis

S. N. Filippidis was born in Athens. In 1966, he earned a degree from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He taught in secondary education. In 1984, he obtained a Ph.D. from the Department of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. His dissertation focused on the carpet scene in Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" and is an analysis of ancient text based on semiotic theories. He also attended seminars at the School of Literary Theory and Criticism at Irvine. He taught in the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Crete from 1984 to 1992, and in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Philology from 1992 to 2006. His publications include the books "Places: Studies on the Narrative Discourse of Seven Modern Greek Prose Writers (Papadiamantis, Kondylakis, Theotokis, Chatzopoulos, Kazantzakis, Venezis, Karagatsis)", "Ambiguities: Studies on the Narrative Discourse of Six Modern Greek Writers (Papadiamantis, Vlachogiannis, Myrivilis, Terzakis, Kazantzakis, Palamas)", and "Six Plus One Studies on Kazantzakis", as well as over 90 articles published in collective volumes and journals (Bibliothiki, Diavazo, Thallo, Nea Estia, Porphyra, Palimpsiston, etc.) that address issues of reading literary texts from antiquity to the present, and literary theory (Greimas, Bakhtin, Peter Brooks, Eco, etc.). He has organized and co-organized three conferences on Kazantzakis as the chairman of the scientific committee and served as President of the Center for Cretan Literature since its inception for several years. He is interested in the semiotics of literary texts and psychoanalytic approaches. He uses literary theory as a tool to highlight the complex formal organization of literary texts as a fundamental component of their meaning. In recent years, he has been involved in and published studies on poetry. Since 2008, he has been a permanent resident of Chania.