Maria Nikolopoulou is a member of the Laboratory and Teaching Staff in the Department of Modern Greek Philology of the Department of Philology of the National University of Athens, specializing in Modern Greek Philology. She studied Classical Philology at the University of Athens. She obtained a Master’s and Doctoral Degree in Modern Greek Philology from the University of London (King’s College London), as a scholarship holder of the State Scholarships Foundation. She speaks excellent English and French.

She has taught European and Modern Greek literature at the Hellenic Open University (2003-2013 and 2016-2023) at undergraduate and postgraduate levels and at the Department of Philology of the University of Patras (2008-2009). She has research experience in research programs of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia (NEXUS: How to Think about the Balkans: 2002), the School of Fine Arts (The female literary and visual presence in literary and art journals (1900-1940): 2005-2007), the Erasmus+ STEPUP-DC program of the National University of Athens, in collaboration with four European universities (Teacher Students’ Practices for Democratic Culture (STEPUP-DC): 2020-2022) and the program The Stranger, the Other, the Different: Identity and Otherness in Literature of the National University of Athens (ELIDEK, 2021-2023). She was a Research Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Greece, Harvard University (2020-21).

She served as a philologist in public secondary education (2000-2017), with actual teaching service in high schools and lyceums of the regions of 2nd Heraklion, 1st Piraeus, 1st and 2nd Athens and involvement in innovative actions. She was a member of the writing team of the book History of the 5th Primary School in the Byzantine Era (published by the Pedagogical Institute, 2006).
Her research interests concern 20th-century prose, the attributions of historical experience in literary writing, literature as a means of shaping historical memory, women’s literary creation and avant-garde prose in the 1960s and 1970s, and the representation of otherness in literature.

Indicative Publications

• Δώρα Μέντη – Μαρία Νικολοπούλου, «Ο ξένος, ο άλλος, ο διαφορετικός: Ταυτότητα και ετερότητα στα Ανθολόγια Λογοτεχνικών Κειμένων» στα Πρακτικά συνεδρίου: Αναζητώντας τη γνώση: Τα σχολικά εγχειρίδια στο Ελληνικό Κράτος: 17-19 Δεκεμβρίου 2021, Ινστιτούτο Εκπαιδευτικής Πολιτικής και Εθνική Βιβλιοθήκη Ελλάδος, Αθήνα 2023 σ. 192-206 http://iep.edu.gr/images/synedrio/Praktika_TaSxolikaEgxeiridia_c_o.pdf .
• «Από τον Στρατή Μυριβήλη στον Θανάση Βαλτινό: Μια επισκόπηση της σχέσης ιστορίας-μυθοπλασίας στη νεοελληνική πεζογραφία του 20ου αιώνα», Νέα Εστία, τχ. 1894 (Μάρτιος 2023), σ. 30-49.
• «Subversive Literary Representations of 1821 in the Metapolitefsi (1974-1981)», Journal of Greek Media and Culture, τχ. 7/2 (Autumn 2021), σ. 259–279.
• «Γυναικεία σεξουαλικότητα και γραφή στα περιοδικά λόγου και τέχνης (1900-1920)», στο Κ. Α. Δημάδης (επιμ.), Δ΄ Ευρωπαϊκό Συνέδριο Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών: Γρανάδα 9-12 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010: Πρακτικά: Ταυτότητες στον ελληνικό κόσμο: (από το 1204 έως σήμερα), Ευρωπαϊκή Εταιρεία Νεοελληνικών Σπουδών, Αθήνα 2011, τόμος Δ΄, σ. 59-72. ISBN: 978-960-99699-0-1

Email: mnikolopoulo@phil.uoa.gr