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Semele Assinder Editor

Eleni Papargyriou teaches at the University of Vienna, having previously lectured at King’s College London (2009–13). She has held research and teaching positions at Oxford, Princeton and the University of Ioannina, Greece. She has published the monograph Reading Games in the Greek Novel (2011) and co-edited Camera Graeca: Photographs, Narratives Materialities (2015). She has published articles on intertextuality and the novel, the cultural implications of (self)translation, visual modernity and the rapport between literary text and photographic image. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Greek Media and Culture.

Semele Assinderstudied Classics at Oxford before going to Cambridge to work on her doctoral dissertation, Greece in British Women’s Writing, 1866–1915. During her PhD, she worked in Athens while holding an Onassis Foreigner’s Fellowship; upon completion she took up the British School at Athens’ Macmillan Rodewald Studentship.

David Holton is Emeritus Professor of Modern Greek at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of Selwyn College. He is the author of many books and articles on Modern Greek language and literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. He edited Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete (1991) and co-edited Copyists, Collectors, Redactors and Editors: Manuscripts and Editors of Late Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Literature (2005). He has also edited twenty volumes of the journal Kambos: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek (1993–2013). He was Chairman of the Society for Modern Greek Studies (2012–2016).