Eleni Papalexiou is associate professor at the Department of Theatre Studies, School of Fine Arts, University of the Peloponnese (UoP), specialized in Theatre Genetics, Performance Analysis, as well as Digital Humanities and Arts. She holds a Ph.D. from Université Sorbonne-Paris IV. As a Fulbright visiting scholar she conducted research at Stanford University (Department of Classics & Department of Theater and Performance Studies, 2014-2015).

She has worked intensively on cultural documentation and the digital visualization of the performing arts. She is Principal Investigator of three running research projects: a) Genesis. Genetic Research and Digital Visualization in the Performing Arts, funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (2020-2023), b) The Archive of Dimitris Papaioannou, funded by the Greek Ministry of Culture (2021-2023) and c) Scientific Documentation of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival, funded by NSRF (2023-2024). She was also Principal Investigator (on behalf of the UoP) of the European Projects CREARCH: Creative European Archives as Innovative Cultural Hubs and ARGOS: Actes de Création et Dynamiques de Collaborations Croisées – Arts de la Scène (Creative Europe Cooperation Projects 2018-2021).

From 2018 she is the Greek national ambassador in the Time Machine Organisation, a leading international organisation for cooperation in technology, science and cultural heritage.

She was the main researcher of the research project ARCH: Archival Research and Cultural Heritage, concerning the archive of the theatre director Romeo Castellucci and the Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio. Today she is academic consultant and curator of the above-mentioned archive.

She has published widely on contemporary theatre and performance analysis and has given numerous papers and invited lectures in international conferences.

Performing Arts; Theatre; Theatre Studies; Performance Analysis; Theatre Genetics; Contemporary Art; Greek Drama on the Contemporary Stage; Digital Arts and Humanities; Cultural documentation.