Anastasia Stefanidou is an adjunct faculty member at the School of English Language and Literature, Aristotle University. She has taught courses on poetry, research methodology, and 19th and 20th century American literature. She has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship, a Salzburg Seminar fellowship, a Princeton University library fellowship, and a library research fellowship from the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection, California State University. She has presented her work at conferences in Greece and abroad. Her scholarly work on Greek American literature has appeared in such journals as the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, The Charioteer, the Journal of Modern Hellenism, and in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Her research interests include ethnicity and diaspora, postcolonial studies, modernity and postmodernity.