Peggy Karpouzou is Associate Professor in Theory of Literature at the Faculty of Philology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She received her B.A. degree in Linguistics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and she holds DEA and Ph.D. in Theory of Literature from Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III. She has earned grants and research fellowships from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), ''Alexander S. Onassis'' Public Benefit Foundation and the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF). She has taught Literary Theory, Modern Greek Literature and European Literature courses at the University of Patras, the University of Ioannina and the Hellenic Open University. She has also participated in many international conferences and research programs of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS-France), Gallica (BNF-National Library of France), the University of Athens, and the Canadian Research Coordination Committee. Her research interests focus on Literary Theories, Metacriticism and Cultural Criticism (Postructuralism, Identity Politics, Postmodernism, Posthumanism, Ecocriticism, Travel Writing, the relationship between literature, scientific discourse and social and philosophical thought) in Greek, French, and Anglophone Literature of the 19th-21st centuries. She has publications in Greek, French and Anglophone journals and edited volumes and she is the author and editor of several works, including La Poétique de l’ironie dans la nouvelle du XIXe siècle (2003), A. Tzouma, P. Karavia and P. Karpouzou, Hellenic and translated in Greek Bibliography of Literary Theory (1940-2007) (2019) [in Greek], P. Karpouzou-N. Zampaki (eds.), Symbiotic Posthumanist Ecologies in Western Literature, Philosophy and Art: Towards Theory and Practice, Berlin: Peter Lang, 2023. She is member of Editorial Boards in international scientific journals, scientific Associations and Networks in her research fields. She is Series Editor of the book series “Posthumanities and Citizenship Futures” at Rowman & Littlefield and “Brill Research Perspectives in Critical Theory”.
