Vassilios Letsios

    Letsios Vassilios: Curriculum Vitae
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Vassilis Letsios is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Translation in the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting at the Ionian University (Corfu, Greece). He studied Philology at the University of Ioannina and received his MA and PhD in Modern Greek Studies from King's College London. His research focuses on Modern Greek literature, literary translation and retranslation, translation history, Ionian literary culture, and the reception of classical antiquity in modern Greek letters. He is the author of the monographs The Ghost Behind the Arras: Transformations of the “Political Verse” in Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry (2013) and Retranlating the Ancients in the Ionian Poetic Tradition (2025), and has published more than ninety scholarly studies in journals, edited volumes and conference proceedings. He is Director of the Laboratory for Language, History and Culture in the Ionian Space at the Ionian University.