Degrees earned

• 1969 B.A. French, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 1971 M.A. Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 1975 Ph.D. Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, Boulder
• 1980 Diploma, English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Courses taught

• Introduction to poetry, Medieval literature, Renaissance literature, 20th cent. literary theory, Spenser and Milton, Courtly literature, Chaucer, Early English drama, Middle English lyrics.

Main publications

• Myth, Code, Order: Transformations in the Narrative Structure of Courtly Romance. Doctoral dissertation, Comparative Literature, University of Colorado, 1975. Available from University Microfilms.
• Meaning and Geography: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece. Co-authored with A. Ph. Lagopoulos. Mouton, 1992.

Edited volumes:

• Σημειωτική και Κοινωνία. Διεθνές Συμπόσιο της Ελληνικής Σημειωτικής Εταιρείας (Semiotics and Society: International Symposium of the Hellenic Semiotic Society). Edited, with introduction. Athens: Odysseas, 1980.
• Signs of the Past: Semiotics and History, special issue of the journal Semiotica, 59:3/4, 1986. Co-edited, with introduction, together with A. Ph. Lagopoulos.
• Η Δυναμική των Σημείων. Συνέδριο της Ελληνικής Σημειωτικής Εταιρίας (The Dynamics of Signs: 2nd Congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society). Co-edited with A. Ph. Lagopoulos, P. Martinidis and K. V. Spyridonidis. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 1986.
• Θεωρία της Ποίησης / Ποίηση της Θεωρίας. Συμπόσιο για τη Θεωρία της Λογοτεχνίας στον Ευρωπαϊκό Χώρο (Theory of Poetry--Poetry of Theory: Symposium on European Literary Theory). Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 1995.

Chapters, articles and papers:

•  “On the spatial and cultural characteristics of courtly romance”, Semiotica 20:1/2, 1977, 1-37. Reprinted in Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text, ed. Peter V. Zima, series Linguistics and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 5. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1981.
• “Socio-semiotique du roman courtois”, Semiotica 21:3/4, 1977, 227-256.
• “Οι σύγχρονες μέθοδοι ανάλυσης λογοτεχνικών κειμένων” (Contemporary methods for the analysis of literary texts), Filologos 29, 1982, 145-162.
• “The Life of Saint Alexius: structure and function of a medieval popular narrative”, Semiotica 49:3/4, 1984, 243-281.
• “Η ανάλυση κειμένων. Θεωρία και εφαρμογή” (Text analysis: Theory and application), in Γλώσσα και Εκπαίδευση (Language and Education). Athens: Hellenic Association of Philologists, 1985, pp. 99-116.
• “Semiotics in Greece”, with A. Ph. Lagopoulos, in The Semiotic Sphere, ed.Thomas A. and Jean Umiker Sebeok. Plenum, 1986, pp. 253-278.
• “Folk in their degree: class and text in medieval England”, in Signs of the Past: Semiotics and History, Semiotica 59:3/4, 1986, 261-280.
• “Talking about space”, in Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on the Description and/or Comparison of English and Greek, School of English. Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, April 10-12, 1989, pp. 395-421.
• “Materialism and semiotics in contemporary critical theory”, Yearbook of English Studies (University of Thessaloniki) 1, 1989, pp. 277-296.
• “Actantial structure in the medieval English ballad”, Yearbook of English  Studies (University of Thessaloniki) 2, 1990, pp. 33-50.
• “Visionary discourse: Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe”, in Yearbook  of of English Studies (University of Thessaloniki) 3, 1991-92, pp. 27-43.
• “‘This Creature’: Discourse on women and discourse by women in the Mid-  le dle Ages”. Gramma 1, 1993, pp. 15-39.
• “‘Judas’: The first English ballad?” Medium Aevum 62, 1993, pp. 20-34.
• “Hero and villain in the medieval historical ballads”,in Logomachia: Forms of Opposition in English Language/Literature, ed. E. Douka-Kabitoglou. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Association for the Study of English, 1994, pp. 47-60.
• “Πολυπλοκότητα και μεταφορά. Ανάλυση του λόγου για τον χώρο” (Complexity and metaphor: Analysing discourse on space), in Η Ζωή των Σημείων. Τρίτο Πανελλήνιο Συνέδριο Σημειωτικής (The Life of Signs: 3rd congress of the Hellenic Semiotic Society), E. Kapsomenos and G. Pashalidis, eds. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 1996, pp. 121-132.