Angeliki Spyropoulou (Spiropoulou) is a Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at the Theatre Studies Department, School of Arts of the University of the Peloponnese, and Founding Director of the M.A. Program Creative Writing, Theatre and Culture Industries. She has been a Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study of the University of London, convenor of the Research Seminar Series Comparative Modernisms; and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Paris III-Nouvelle Sorbonne. She holds a B.A. in English and Greek Literature from the University of Athens, a Master of Arts in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex, and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature also from the University of Sussex. She has taught at Athens University, the Hellenic Open University and the Open University of Cyprus, and has delivered invited lectures and graduate research seminars at many international conferences and institutions such as the Paris College of Art, Université Paris VII- Denis Diderot, Sapienza Univerity of Rome, Greenwich University, the School of Advanced Study-University of London, the Instituto del Teatro Barcelona, the Accademia di Belli Arte di Venezia, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Bogazici University, London Southbank University, Intistut Catholique de Paris, and Goldsmiths College-University of London. Professor Spiropoulou has published in Greek and international refereed journals, volumes and conference proceedings on English and Comparative Literature and Critical/Cultural Theory with an emphasis on literary and artistic modernism and concomitant issues of gender, historiography and ideology in modernity. Her monograph, entitled, Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin was published by Palgrave-Macmillan. Her new monograph Topoi of the Modern: Modernity and European Literature is due by Alexandreia publications. She recently co-edited with Jean-Michel Rabate, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, the volume Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (Bloomsbury), dedicated to the distinguished philosopher of history, Hayden White. She has also co-authored the Hellenic Open University textbook, History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century, and has edited or co-edited the volumes: Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity, Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts, Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Orientations and Crossings, Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives, alongside issues of international academic journals such as the European Journal for the Study of English. She has contributed to the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and the Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism as well as many volumes on modernism, such as Sentencing Orlando (Edinburgh University Press); and 1922: History, Culture, Politics (Cambridge University Press). She has organised and contributed to many international conferences and events in Greece and abroad, participates in several professional associations/academic networks; and publishes in the Greek Press since 2003. Professor Spyropoulou is Member of the Scientific Board of the ComLit refereed journal (ESCLS), and a Member of the Advisory Committee of the European Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres. She has also served on the Executive Committees of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies, the Hellenic Association of American Studies, and the Society of European Cultural and Literary Studies. She was twice elected Chair of the Theatre Studies Department, and served as a Deputy Dean of the School of Arts, a member of the Senate, the Quality Assessment and Accreditation Committee, and the Research Funds Committee of the University of the Peloponnese. She has also served on the Executive Committee of Anargyrios and Corgialenios Educational Foundation at Spetses, and the Hellenic NARIC.

As a Fulbright scholar she will be based at Columbia University, Classics Department, Program in Hellenic Studies where she will conduct interdisciplinary research on her new project entitled, Modernists as Historians: Writing Antiquity and the Past in Modern Times. The project examines the conceptualizations of the past, especially antiquity in history books and drafts by key 20th Century modernist literary writers in order to throw light on the self-definition and understanding of Western modernity. Professor Spyropoulou will also visit and give talks at other U.S. Institutions on her project during her Fulbright fellowship.