Department of German Language and Literature

Sofia Koukouvinou, born in Athens; studied German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Literary and Linguistic Studies; completed her doctoral dissertation entitled “German and Modern Greek Enlightenment: Intellectual Interactions in the Formation of Modern Greek Education”; since 2021 worked as academic fellow and lecturer at the Universities of Thessaly, Patras, and Athens; since 2026 she has been serving as Assistant Professor at the Department of German Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (German Literature).

Since 2024, she has been a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Folklore Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, conducting research on Comparative Folklore, the European Enlightenment, and the relationship between children’s literature, aesthetics/art, and media, under the academic supervision of Associate Professor Dr. Giorgos Kouzas. She has published studies on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, contemporary literature, migration literature and intercultural issues, comparative and theoretical literary studies, as well as on the relationship between education, philosophy, and literature in the German and Modern Greek Enlightenment. Her research interests include eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature, contemporary literature, children’s and young adult literature, literature and media, and Greek-German cultural relations.