Markomichelaki Anastasia
Anastasia Markomichelaki is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Section of Modern Greek and Comparative Studies (Department of Philology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), where she has taught since 2013, offering both graduate and post-graduate courses. She did her first degree at the University of Crete, and her PhD at the University of Cambridge, under the supervision of Professor David Holton. In the past, she taught for five years at the University of Crete and for 14 years at Secondary Education. Her research interests include vernacular Greek Literature of the 12th-18th centuries, textual criticism and theory, Post-second WW poetry, and Greek Folk Song. She has edited the 16th-century Cretan Poem Της Κρήτης ο χαλασμός, by Manolis Sklavos (Institute of Modern Greek Studies, Thessaloniki 2014); and has also published a monograph on the literary depiction of Crete’s capital, Chandax, during the Venetian era (University Studio Press, Thessaloniki 2015). Her latest book is the edition of preacher Elias Miniatis’s sermons (1716) (Artos Zois, Athens 2020). She is co-editor (with David Holton) of The Story of Susanna, by the 16th-century poet Markos Defaranas (Crete University Pres, forthcoming).
