
ANNA KARAKATSOULI
Professor
History and Culture of Europe and Greece in the Modern Era
Graduate of the Department of History, School of Philosophy, University of Athens (1989). She pursued postgraduate studies specialising in European History and Culture at the University of Strasbourg and completed her doctoral dissertation at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, entitled “La Revue des Deux Mondes de 1920 à 1940: Une revue française devant l’étranger” (1995). Alongside her doctoral studies, she completed the first cycle of studies in Russian Language and Culture at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris (INALCO) and worked as an Expert in the Culture Sector of UNESCO, responsible for the historical and iconographic documentation of the new revised edition of the History of Humanity. She served as Deputy Director of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation and Project Manager for Design and Planning in the General Directorate of International Relations of the “Athens 2004” Organisation.
In 2022 she was elected Professor in the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens (where she has served since 2003) in the field of “History and Culture of Europe and Greece in the Modern Era”. She is Director of the Laboratory for the History of the Book, and has taught as Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of NKUA, and at the National School of Public Administration. She has been a member of the Governing Board of the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY), of the Committee for the State Literary Awards and State Translation Awards, and of the Scientific Committee of NKUA for the Official Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821.
Her main field of interest concerns issues in the history of intellectual life and the circulation of ideas in Europe during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Research Interests
- History of intellectual life and ideologies in modern Europe
- History of the book and publishing activity
- Cultural and political history of modern Greece
- Transnational approaches to Greek history
- History of the Greek Revolution and its reception in the international sphere
Participation in Programmes
- Scientific Coordinator of the programme BIBLIOGEOGRAPHY, co-funded by the Ministry of Culture and Sports and NKUA (Project Code 17912)
- Member of the Scientific Team of the research programme “1821 in Print: The Greek Revolution, Philhellenism, and the European Public Sphere”, Scientific Coordinator Aristides Hatzis (HFRI)
Publications (selected)
- Anna Karakatsouli, “The Far Right’s Quest for Cultural Dominance: Radical Publishing in Greece since 1974”, Journal of Right-Wing Studies 3, no 1 (June 2025): 160-193, http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/RW3.7205
- Anna Karakatsouli, “Conflicting Claims over the Legacy of 1821: The Case of Far Right in Greece”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies 39, no 1 (May 2021): 71-91, https://muse.jhu.edu/article/788939
- Anna Karakatsouli, “The French Involvement in the Greek War of Independence”, Historein 20, no 1 (2021), “1821: What Made it Greek? What Made it Revolutionary?”, https://doi.org/10.12681/historein.25062
- Anna Karakatsouli, “University and Diplomacy: The German Honorary Doctors of the University of Athens from the Balkan Wars to the Second World War”, Online Compendium of Greek-German Intersections, CeMoG, Free University of Berlin, 2021, https://comdeg.eu/essay/105008/?oes-language-switch=language1, https://comdeg.eu/essay/105062/
- Anna Karakatsouli, “Could the Digital Option Work for a Book Market under Stress? The Case of Greek Publishers”, The International Journal of the Book 16, no 1-2 (2018): https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9516/CGP/v16i01/1-11
Books / Monographs
- “The Sword of the Spirit”: Book, Cultural Hegemony and the Far Right in Greece after 1974 (Gutenberg Publications, 2024)
- “Freedom Fighters” and 1821: The Greek Revolution in its Transnational Dimension (Pedio, 2016)
- In the Country of Books: The Publishing History of the Estia Bookstore, 1885–2010 (Ekdoseis ton Synadelfon, 2011)
Current Topics
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Conferences / Talks
- 2025 — Title, Institution, City.
- 2024 — Title, Institution, City.
Undergraduate Courses
- History and Culture of Modern Europe (1492–1815)
- History and Culture of Contemporary Europe (1815–1945)
- Modern and Contemporary History of the Book
- History of Colonialism, 19th–20th centuries
Postgraduate Courses / Supervision
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