I am Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the School of German Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. I studied Medieval and Modern German Philology as well as Spanish Philology at Heinrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, where I completed my PhD in 1999 with a dissertation on Gnosticism in twentieth-century literature.

My teaching and research engage with German Literature, Comparative Literature, Cultural Studies and Literary Translation.

I am the author of the monographs On Melancholy: In Theory, Literature, and Art (Kichli, 2012) and Through a Romantic Lens: German Romanticism and Georgios Vizyinos (Agra, 2019).  I am particularly interested in the intersections between history of ideas (mentalities), literarature and the arts, with recent publications focusing on dystopian fiction and the literature of the fantastic.

Alongside my research, I have been active in literary translation, translating works from and into German, including texts by Reiner Maria Rilke, Ilse Aichinger and Franz Kafka.