Theodora Tsimpouki is Professor at the Faculty of English Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Sorbonne and at New York University from where she received her M.A. and Ph.D. Her essays have appeared in English and Greek in a number of journals and edited collections, including The Henry James Review (“The Aspern Papers: Between the Narrative of an Archive and the Archive of Narrative,” 2018), Post-Exceptionalist American Studies (2014) and  States of Emergency/States of Crisis (2011) (REAL-Yearbook of Research in English and American Literature), Philip Roth and World Literature (Cambria Press, 2014), East-Central European Traumas and a Millennial Condition (distributed by Columbia UP), Women in Dialogue: (M)uses of Culture (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), On the Road to Baghdad or, Travelling Biculturalism (New Academia Publishing, 2005), Revisiting Crisis/Reflecting on Conflict: American Literary Interpretations from WWWII to Ground Zero (Gramma, 2008). Her published works also include Culture Agonistes: Debating Culture, Re-reading Texts (co-editor) (Peter Lang, 2002), Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the US (co-editor) (Verlag 2008) and Our America: American Culture in Greece (2010, in Greek). She is the Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of the European Association for American Studies (EJAS) since 2000. She teaches courses on 20th and 21st century American literature and culture. Her research interests are in Modern and Contemporary American Literature, Posthumanism and Urban Studies.