Zoe Detsi is Professor of early American Literature and Culture at the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She holds a Ph.D. in Early American Theatre from Aristotle University. She has been teaching and researching in the fields of 18th- and 19th-century American culture and ideology. Her publications include articles on American drama and American political ideology, 18th- and 19th- century American theatre and gender, race and ethnic concerns.