Organization
Academic Supervisor
Karamalengou Eleni
Professor Emerita of Latin Literature
ekaram@phil.uoa.gr
Professor Eleni Karamalengou holds a BA (1975) in Classical Philology from the Faculty of Philology, of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA), a D.E.A.(1976) in Classical Studies (Études Classiques) from Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a PhD (1979) in Latin literature also from the Sorbonne (Paris IV). She has been a member of the Staff of the Faculty Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 1980, rising to the rank of Professor in 2006, while in August 2019 she completed a six-year long tenure as Dean of the School of Philosophy. Her teaching and research interests comprise Roman Rhetoric and Latin Literature of the Augustan Age, and she has taught a variety of courses on the above topics at the Faculty of Philology, both at undergraduate and graduate level, and the Faculty of History and Archaeology at undergraduate level. She has also supervised numerous MA and PhD theses.
Scientific Supervisor
Katsadoros George
Associate Professor of Folklore
Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean
katsadoros@aegean.gr
George Katsadoros is Associate Professor of Folklore at the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean. His main research interests include the diffusion and distribution of folkloric genres, folk literature in particular, through modern media and their appliance in Education. He has taken part and acted as a referee in many congresses and journals and has published articles in Greece and abroad.
Teaching Staff
Cooper Gail
Private scholar in Classics
USA
gail.alan.cooper@gmail.com
Gail Cooper is a private scholar with a background in Classics. Her publication has been in Apuleian studies (Collection Latomus).
In connection with her doctoral work at Brown University she worked with Charles Segal, the preeminent Classics scholar of his generation in the US.
Expanding on her work specializing in ancient literature and mythology, and bringing to it a focus from phenomenology, she further paralleled Segal’s intellectual trajectory by moving on to contextualize these interests within the broader framework of comparative literature, literary theory, and drama.
Her journey through the human-animal matrix crystalized in the figure of the Satyr has further taken her to relevant work in neuroscience; evolutionary psychology; psychology and personality theory; anthropology; folklore; and film criticism.
Hansen William
Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies & Folklore
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA
hansen@indiana.edu
Professor William Hansen earned his doctorate in Classics from the University of California, Berkeley, studying under mythologist Joseph Fontenrose, philologist George Koniaris, and folklorist Alan Dundes. Thereafter he joined the Department of Classical Studies and the Folklore Institute (later: Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology) at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he taught from 1970 until his retirement in 2005. He has authored many articles and around ten books on classical and folkloristic topics, among them The Book of Greek and Roman Folktales, Legends, and Myths (Princeton University Press), Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans (Oxford University Press), Ariadne’s Thread: A Guide to International Tales Found in Classical Literature (Cornell University Press), Anthology of Ancient Greek Popular Literature (Indiana University Press), Phlegon of Tralles’ Book of Marvels (Exeter University Press), and Saxo Grammaticus and the Life of Hamlet (University of Nebraska Press)
Ingemark Asplund Camilla
Senior Lecturer in Ethnology
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Campus Gotland, Sweden
camillaasplundingemark@etnologi.uu.se
Camilla Asplund Ingemark is Senior Lecturer in Ethnology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University/Campus Gotland, Sweden. Her fields of interest include oral narrative, ancient folklore, folklore and literature, the history of emotions (especially in the ancient world), Old Norse Studies and environmental humanities. She has worked with ancient Roman folk narrative, 19th-century Finland-Swedish folktales and legends, and contemporary vernacular conceptions of climate change.
Ingemark Dominic
Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History
Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden
dominic.ingemark@antiken.uu.se
Dominic Ingemark is Senior Lecturer in Classical Archaeology and Ancient History at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research interests include ancient folklore (in particular ancient Roman folk narrative), Roman social history, Roman foodways, Roman horticulture and agriculture, Roman glass and Roman-native relations (focusing on Roman Iron Age Scotland and Scandinavia). His most recent book is Representations of Fear: Verbalizing Emotion in Ancient Roman Folk Narrative (Helsinki, 2020), co-authored with Camilla Asplund Ingemark.
Kaplanoglou Marianthi
Professor of Folklore Studies
Department of Byzantine Philology and Folklore Studies, Faculty of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
mkaplanog@phil.uoa.gr
Professor Marianthi Kaplanoglou made her studies at the University of Athens and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, as a student of Michalis Meraklis, André Guillou, Claude Bremond and Hélène Antoniadis-Bibicou. She joined the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean (1996-2008) and since 2008, the Faculty of Philology of the University of Athens. Her research interests are on the social history of folk culture, folk narrative genres, comparative Folklore and literature of Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, children’s folklore and folklore in education. She is a member of the editing committee for the publication of Georgios Megas’ National Catalogue of the Greek Folktales, edited by the Greek National Research Center and the Academia Scientiarum Fennica. She was among the scientific partners for the edition of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens by the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Göttingen. She is co-director with Michalis Meraklis of the series of translations on international folklore studies (including translations of Hermann Bausinger, Max Lüthi, Pertti J. Anttonen, and Dan Ben-Amos studies). Kaplanoglou is also a member of Greek Folklore Society and of the GRENO (Groupe de Recherche Européen sur la Narrative Orale). She has published books and articles in international journals. She has recently published the book Folktales and every-day life. Theoritical and empirical evidence of a folklore research in Rhodes (in greek, 648 pages, Patakis Publications, 2022).
Katsadoros George
Associate Professor of Folklore
Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean
katsadoros@aegean.gr
George Katsadoros is Associate Professor of Folklore at the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean. His main research interests include the diffusion and distribution of folkloric genres, folk literature in particular, through modern media and their appliance in Education. He has taken part and acted as a referee in many congresses and journals and has published articles in Greece and abroad.
Konstantakos M. Ioannis
Professor of Ancient Greek Literature
Department of Classics, Faculty of Pholosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
iokonstan@phil.uoa.gr
Professor Ioannis M. Konstantakos studied classical philology at the universities of Athens and Cambridge and is now Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His scholarly interests include ancient comedy, ancient narrative, folklore, and the relations between Greek and Near-Eastern literatures and cultures. He has published four books and many articles on these topics. He has received scholarships from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation and the Onassis Foundation. In 2009 his study Akicharos: The Tale of Ahiqar in Ancient Greece, vols. 1 and 2 (Athens 2008) was awarded the prize of the Academy of Athens for the best monograph in classical philology. In 2012 his book Legends and Fairy Tales about the Land of Gold. Archaeology of a Folktale Motif (Athens 2011) was shortlisted for the Greek state prize for critical essay. He recently edited the volume Suspense in Ancient Greek Literature (De Gruyter, Berlin-Boston 2021, in collaboration with V. Liotsakis) and published the small monograph War, Nekyia, Quest: George Seferis and the Archetypical Myths of Hellenism (Benaki Museum, 2021).
Lindahl Carl
Research Professor of English and Folklore
Martha Gano Houston, University of Houston, USA
lindahlcarl1@gmail.com
Professor Carl Lindahl (Martha Gano Houstoun Research Professor of English and Folklore, University of Houston). Lindahl specializes in folktales, legends, festive culture, and the use of oral traditions in promoting personal and social healing. His research has centered on 18th-21st-century North American traditions and communities as well as on medieval traditions of northern Europe. His publications feature American folktales and Legends, Appalachian folktales, French Louisiana Mardi Gras, and narratives shared by survivors of Hurricane Katrina (Louisiana, 2005) and the 2010 Port au Prince Earthquake (2010). His books include We Are All Survivors: Narrative, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery (2022); Second Line Rescue: Improvised Responses to Katrina and Rita (2013); American Folktales from the Library of Congress (2004); Perspectives on the Jack Tales (2001); Encyclopedia of Medieval Folklore (2000); Swapping Stories: Folktales from Louisiana (1997); and Earnest Games: Folkloric Patterns in the Canterbury Tales (1987).
Masoni Licia
Associate Professor of English Language
Department of Education Studies “Giovanni Maria Bertin”, University of Bologna, Italy
licia.masoni@unibo.it
Licia Masoni is Associate Professor in English Language and Applied linguistics in the Department of Education Sciences of the University of Bologna, where she teaches courses on the uses of narrative in the primary EFL classroom. Having gained a PhD in Scottish Ethnology and Oral Narrative from the University of Edinburgh, and conducted extensive fieldwork in the area of traditional oral performance, she focuses her research and academic work on the uses of narrative in society, as well as on the numerous applications of oral narrative studies and children’s literature to language learning and teaching, with specific attention to cultural elements embedded in narrative forms.
Nounanaki Aphrodite-Lidia
PhD on Folklore Studies
Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
nounanaphro@primedu.uoa.gr
Aphrodite-Lidia Nounanaki holds a PhD on Folklore Studies from the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She is a member of the Laboratory of Social Sciences at the same Department and has taken part in several research programs organised by it. She has also participated in various Greek and international conferences and publications. Her research interests revolve mainly around digital folklore. She is interested on the diffusion of modern popular cultural forms through the internet and in the digital world. She is currently researching digital humour (e.g., memes), but mostly issues of the occult (e.g. contemporary legends, conspiracy theories, ghost lore, creepypasta) and their diffusion through the internet. She is conducting post-doctoral research at the University of the Aegean on The function of myth in the conspiratorial reasoning framework.
Papaioannou Sophia
Professor of Latin Literature
Department of Classics, Faculty of Pholosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
spapaioan@phil.uoa.gr
Sophia Papaioannou teaches Latin language and literature at the Faculty of Philology and the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She received her BA in Classical Philology (1992) from the University of Crete, and her MA (1995) and PhD (1998) in Classics from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2007 she taught at the University of Tennessee, the University of Akron and the University of Cyprus. In 2019 she was Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton University, Center for Hellenic Studies, and in summer 2019 as invited expert she taught Greek and Roman mythology at the international summer school of Beijing Foreign Studies University in China. Her research interests include the Latin literature of the Augustan Age, Roman Comedy, Ancient epic, Classical reception, and she has published several books and articles on the above topics.
Zafiropoulos Christos
Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature
University of Patras
czaf@upatras.gr
Professor Christos Zafiropoulos studied classical philology at the Universities of Crete (Rethymnon) and Exeter and earned his doctorate in Classics from the University of Exeter where he studied Greek fable under Richard Seaford and Christopher Gill. He is Associate Professor of Ancient Greek Literature at the University of Patras. His research interests and publication fields include Greek fable and folklore, Greek thought (esp. Socrates and Plato) and the history of ideas, reception of Greek literature and history (esp. in film and comics). His recent work includes Socrates and Aesop. A Comparative Study of the Introduction of Plato’s Phaedo (Academia Verlag) and Contemporary Visualizations of Antiquity (University of Patras Press, forthcoming).
Program Consultants and Administrators
Christopoulou Anastasia
Senior Officer-International Program Coordinator
School of Philosophy – National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (retired)
anchris@phil.uoa.gr
Anastasia Christopoulou is specialized in IT and adult education. Since 2015 she has been responsible for International Programmes management and coordination at the School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University, participating in the School’s and the institution’s internationalization effort. She holds a degree in Mathematics (University of Patras – Greece), a MSc in Computer Science (RMIT – Australia) and a MSc in Basic and Applied Cognitive Science (NKUA – Greece).
She is actively engaged in IT and training activities and she supports the School members’ research and innovation projects with IT solutions, including software management, development/ maintenance of databases, and statistical analysis. As an administrator, her main duties involve project design and planning, conclusion of agreements and contracts, establishment and implementation of budgets, reports and evaluation, and personnel recruitment.
Valasiadis Evangelos
PhD Folklore Studies
Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean
e.valasiadis@aegean.gr
Evangelos Valasiadis is an elementary school teacher and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Aegean. His first bachelor’s degree was in Business Administration from the University of Piraeus (1994-1998) and his second from the Department of Primary Education of the University of Aegean (2004-2008). He then acquired a Master’s degree in Education that was aided by a partial funding university scholarship. In early 2022 he graduated from the University of Aegean with a doctoral degree in folk studies. His current research interests include video games inspired by the Greek civilization and modern perceptions of the mythical Medusa.
Paraschou Vasileios
Business Consultant – PhD candidate
Department of Primary Education, University of the Aegean
bparaschou@aegean.gr
Paraschou Vasileios is a business consultant and a PhD candidate in the Department of Primary Education of the University of Aegean in the field of educational use of new technologies focusing on electronic social media. He holds a BSC on Statistics and Insurance Sciences from the University of Piraeus, Master on Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the O.U.C. and an M.Ed. on Education Sciences – Education with the use of New Technologies from the University of Aegean.
For more than 10 years he has been active as a business consultant specializing in new technology implementation and BPR, research design, development and implementation, quantitative and qualitative data statistical analyses, digital marketing and online systems design and development. He also has extensive experience in the design and development of online educational programs and as a trainer in distance and face to face adult training programs. He is coauthor of two books published under the Hellenic Academic ebooks EU co-funded program and has articles published in national and international scientific conferences and journals.