Department of German Language and Literature

Olga Laskaridou is Assistant Professor in German Literature of the 20th century. She has studied German Language and Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1974-1980), holds a Magister Artium in Contemporary German Literature, Linguistics and Ancient History from the Freie Universität Berlin (1980-1984) and a Ph. D. from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1990). Her doctoral research was on the reception of “The myth of Prometheus in Eastern German Poetry”. Since 1986, she has been teaching at the Department of German Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, first as a teacher of German in higher education (1986-1993) and lecturer (1993-2001).

From 2005 to 2018 she worked for the National Foreign Language Exam System (KPG).

From 2010 to 2017 she lectured in History of European Literature at the Hellenic Open University (EAP).

Member of the Greek Society for German Studies (GGGS), the Greek Comparative Literature Association and the Internationale de LittératureComparée/ International Comparative Literature Association (AILS/ ICLA)

Her research interests include German Literature of the 18th and 20th centuries, Genre Theory, Literature and other Arts, Literary Fantasy etc.

Publications: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=kqbhFVsAAAAJ&hl=el