Georgia Gotsi

Georgia Gotsi is a Full Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at the Department of Philology, University of Patras, where she has taught since 2004 and served as Associate Chair (2018-2020). An internationally recognized scholar, she holds fellowships from Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies (2010-2011), New York University (2011-2012), University of Cambridge (2023), and will be Princeton University's Seeger Center Fellow in 2025.

Her educational background includes a BA in Classical Literature from the University of Athens (1989), MA in Comparative Literature from UNC Chapel Hill (1992), and PhD in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from King's College London (1996). Prior to returning to Greece, she taught at Brown University as a Visiting Assistant Professor (1996-2004).

Gotsi's research spans Modern Greek and Comparative Literature with emphases on cultural metaphors, urban representations in literature, Jewish-Greek literary interactions, material antiquity in modern contexts, and translation studies. Her work bridges 19th-21st century European literary traditions with particular focus on Greek-British cultural networks and reception phenomena.

Her recent publications reveal a trajectory examining cultural mediation through diverse lenses: from dervish representations in Greek prose to Victorian biographers of Rigas Feraios, demonstrating consistent engagement with cross-cultural transfer mechanisms and memory studies. The scholarship shows increasing methodological sophistication in tracing intellectual networks across Mediterranean and European contexts.

• State Prize for Critical Essay (half-price) for "The Internationalization of Imagination" (2010)
• Olympia Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University, 2010-2011)
• Lewis-Gibson Visiting Fellow, University of Cambridge (2023)
• Upcoming Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Fellowship at Princeton (2025)

Professor Gotsi has supervised 13 doctoral theses, 12 postgraduate theses, and 13 undergraduate theses while directing the Department's postgraduate program in Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Literature since 2022. Her teaching encompasses literary theory, 19th-20th century Greek and European literature, and comparative methodologies. Current research includes a new edition of Andreas Karkavitsas' Lygeri and her Princeton project "Standing Ruins: The Temple of Olympian Zeus in Modern Greek Literature."