Vassilis Letsios (Lefkada, 1971) is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Translation into Greek at the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting, Ionian University. He holds an MA in Modern Greek Studies (1997) and a PhD in Modern Greek Literature (2003) from the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s College London.

He is the author of The Ghost Behind the Arras: Transformations of the “Political Verse” in Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry (Scholars’ Press, 2013), and co-editor of A Ship Gleaming on the Horizon: Finnish Traveller Oskar Emil Tudeer in Greece and Hisarlik (1881–1882) [in Greek] (Asini Publishing, 2017). His research focuses on modern Greek poetry, translation history, and cultural reception. He has published a number of articles in Greek and English on 19th- and 20th-century Greek literature in academic journals and edited volumes. He is the director of the Laboratory "Language, History, and Culture in the Ionian Region".