Elizabeth Arseniou

Elisavet Arseniou is a Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University and Principal Researcher – Head of the Host Foundation. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, on Greek modernism and literary avant-gardes. Her research focuses on Modern Greek poetry, Surrealism, literary criticism, the periodical press, as well as literature in digital environments. Some of her monographs: 2025: Elisavet Arseniou (ed., intro., addendum) Nikos Engonopoulos, À Revoir Theophilos. 2021: Nikos Engonopoulos and the Revolution of 1821. 2018: Seven studies on C.P. Cavafy (ed. and intro.), Cultural Poetry: the Glocal Writing of Demosthenes Agrafiotis. 2016: C.P Cavafy: The Value of Poetry.  2012: Practical Introduction to the Study of Modern Greek Literature: Terms, Methods, Theory. 2009: The Rhetoric of Utopia: Studies for the Transition to a New Avant-garde (five essays on the work of Andreas Empeirikos). 2008: Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons: Objects, Foods, Rooms, Translation and introduction. 2003: Aspirants and Makers: Journals, Texts and Movements in Postwar Greek Literature.. Her international publications include The Emergence of a Hybrid Avant-Garde: the Response of the Magazine Pali to Greek Modernism (1997), Between Modernism and the Avant-Garde: Greek Literary Experimentation in the early 1960s (1995), Radical postmodernist literature: a case study of "Equarrent" classicism in Nanos Valaoritis' work (2022), as well as other academic articles on Nanos Valaoritis, Odysseas Elytis and Greek Surrealism. Her constant research interest in Nikos Engonopoulos constitutes the academic background for the management and promotion of his archive.