Xenia Georgopoulou was born in Athens in 1973. She graduated with distinction from the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, holds a Master of Arts in Contemporary Practice of Shakespearean Theatre (University of Essex), a Master of Philosophy in English Literature (The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham), and a PhD in English Literature (Department of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). She also conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Theatre Studies of NKUA under the supervision of Spyros Evanghelatos, with a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation.

She has published four books, as well as dozens of articles and reviews of books and theatre in collective volumes (with publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Peter Lang, John Benjamins, among others) and scholarly journals, mainly abroad (such as Cahiers Élisabéthains, Multicultural Shakespeare, Gramma, among others), while she has participated in dozens of academic conferences, mostly abroad (such as those of ESRA [European Shakespeare Research Association], SAA [Shakespeare Association of America], and others).

She mainly teaches courses related to Renaissance theatre in general and William Shakespeare in particular. She has also taught in the Department of English Language and Literature of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Patras, as well as in public and private drama schools and theatre workshops. She has also participated in educational programmes both in Greece and abroad, and has collaborated with organisations such as the BBC, the General Secretariat for Youth, the Pedagogical Institute, and the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation.

Her main field of work is Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, especially issues such as gender and otherness, Shakespeare in theatre and cinema, Shakespearean adaptations, and Shakespearean references in contemporary popular culture.