Angeliki Spiropoulou is Professor of Modern European Literature and Theory at the Theatre Studies Department, School of Arts of the University of the Peloponnese and the Director of the MA Programme on 'Creative Writing, Theatre and Culture Industries'.  She is also Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study-University of London, where she convenes the Research Seminar Series on 'Comparative Modernisms'.

Professor Spiropoulou holds a BA in English and Greek Literature from the University of Athens; a Master of Arts in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex; and a PhD in English and Comparative Literature also from the University of Sussex, UK, supervised by Professor Laura Marcus.

She has also taught at the Hellenic Open University the MA course on 'Literary Theory and Creative Writing', and the BA course 'History of European Literature' for which she co-authored the assigned textbook. She previously taught English literature and Cultural Theory at the English Department of Athens University; and 'Theatre Theory' on the MA Programme in Theatre Studies at the Open University of Cyprus.

As invited or visiting professor she has also taught at: Goldsmiths College-University of London; the Instituto del Teatro in Barcelona; the Accademia di Belli Arte di Venezia; the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (DAMU); London Southbank University; and Bogazici University. Additionally, she has delivered invited lectures and graduate research seminars at the Paris College of Art; Université Paris VII- Denis Diderot, Sapienza Univerity of Rome; Goldsmiths College-University of London; Greenwich University, University of Cyprus; and the School of Advanced Study-University of London.
In 2013-14, she was a visiting researcher at Université Paris III- Nouvelle Sorbonne.

Professor Spiropoulou's monograph, Virginia Woolf, Modernity and History: Constellations with Walter Benjamin, was published by Palgrave-Macmillan (London and New York) in 2010. Her new monograph Topoi of the Modern: Modernity and European Literature is due by Alexandreia publications. She recently co-edited with Jean-Michel Rabate the volume Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics (London: Bloomsbury, 2021).
She has co-authored the Open University textbook, History of European Literature: From 18th to 20th Century (Patras: Hellenic Open University, 2008), and has edited or co-edited the volumes: Walter Benjamin: Images and Myths of Modernity (Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2007); Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Rereading Texts (co-editor, Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2002); Contemporary Greek Fiction: International Orientations and Crossings (co-editor, Athens: Alexandreia Publ., 2002); and Representations of Femininity: Feminist Perspectives (Athens: Centre for Research and Documentation, 1994).
She has also co-edited a special issue of the European Journal of English Studies (Routledge) on the topic of 'Gender Resistance' (2012); the inaugural issue of the journal Theatre Polis on 'Contemporary theatre practices and approaches'; and a special issue on 'History and Contemporary Literature' for the journal Synthesis, which includes an interview with philosopher of history, Hayden White. She has contributed to many volumes on modernism, such as, 1922: History, Culture, Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press); Sentencing Orlando (Edinburgh University Press) as well as The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism.

Professor Spiropoulou has organised and contributed to many international conferences and events in Greece and abroad and participates in several professional associations/academic networks. She also publishes book reviews in the Greek press since 2003.  She has served as a Member of the Executive Committee of the European Network of Comparative Literary Studies; and a Regional Managing Editor for Greece for TheTheatreTimes.com. She is a Member of the Scientific Board of the ComLit journal and a Member of the Advisory Committee of ECHIC (Εuropean Consortium of Humanities Institutes and Centres). 

She is Chair of the Theatre Studies Dept and a Deputy Dean of the School of Arts since 2019. She is also member of the Departmental Erasmus Academic Committee. On a university level she is member of the Senate; the Committee of Quality Assessment and Accreditation; and the Research Funds Committee of the University of the Peloponnese. She also served on the Executive Committee of the Hellenic NARIC.

         Professor Angeliki Spiropoulou

            Research Interests:

• Modern European Literature;
• Comparative Literature;
• Critical, Literary and Cultural Theory;
• Philosophical approaches to Literature and art;
• Gender studies;
• History/ historiography;
• Virginia Woolf and Walter Benjamin;
• Modernism/ Modernity;
• Literature, Theatre and the Arts.