Georgios Pelidis is an assistant professor in the Department of Italian Language and Literature (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens). He studied Classics at the University of Calabria, Greek Philology at the University of Athens and Pedagogy (Communication Technologies) at the University of Bari. He was a fellow researcher at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies of Venice. He received scholarships from the National Hellenic Foundation (I.K.Y.) and from the Sicilian Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. He submitted his doctoral dissertation titled “From Candia to Venice: the historian scholar Giovanni Antonio Muazzo (1621-1703)” in the Department of Italian Language and Philology at the University of Thessaloniki.
At the University of Padua he taught Modern Greek Language and Literature (2011-2019).
He currently teaches the following courses:
- Literature of Modern Hellenism under Latin Rule;
- Special Topics in Italian Literature of Modern Hellenism under Latin Rule;
- Italian Literature of Modern Hellenism under Latin Rule;
- Introduction to Archival Research.
His research interests focus on Greek-Venetian culture and literature (16th-18th centuries), with an emphasis on the transmission and circulation of literary texts and ideas. He participated in scientific projects of the Hellenic National Research Foundation, the Hellenic Institute of Venice, the University of Padua, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation and the University of Cyprus.
He has presented papers at over 15 international scientific conferences and published studies in international scientific journals focusing on the Greek-Italian literature and culture (16-18th century).