Eleni Papargyriou

Eleni Papargyriou serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of Philology at the University of Patras, specializing in Modern Greek Philology. Appointed per Government Gazette 1593 (June 3, 2024), she maintains office hours in room K9 and teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses including Literature and the City: Cultural Aspects of Modernity.

Her academic foundation includes undergraduate studies in Modern Greek Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a DPhil from the University of Oxford with the thesis Reading Games in twentieth-century Greek Fiction. She completed postdoctoral research at Princeton University's Hellenic Studies Program (2007-2008) and has held teaching positions at Oxford, King's College London, University of Vienna, and Hellenic Open University.

Dr. Papargyriou's research explores Modern Greek literary traditions through interdisciplinary lenses, with particular focus on narrative theory, cultural reception, and media intersections. Her work bridges literary analysis with visual culture studies and transnational perspectives on Greek identity, evidenced by her editorial role for the Journal of Greek Media and Culture.

Her publication trajectory demonstrates an evolution from close textual analysis of 20th-century Greek fiction toward broader cultural studies, incorporating photography, popular culture, and international reception frameworks. Key thematic threads include the materiality of cultural artifacts, gendered literary engagements with Greece, and the adaptation of canonical works like Cavafy's poetry into contemporary media.

She actively contributes to academic discourse through co-edited volumes addressing photography's narrative dimensions, British women's literary constructions of Greece, and Cavafy's popular cultural legacy, establishing herself as a significant voice in modern Greek cultural studies.