Efimia Karakantza

She is Professor at the University of Patras and the Chair of the Department of Philology since 2022. She is a fellow of Hellenic Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University. She studied at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (BA), the University of Reading (PhD), and was a visiting researcher in Paris and Austin. Her recent publications focus on metafeminist and political readings of ancient Greek literature, mainly Homeric poetry and Greek tragedy, as well as their contemporary reception in literature, the performing arts and on screen. Her recent books include Who Am I? (Mis)Identity and the Polis in Oedipus Tyrannus (Hellenic Studies Series 86, Harvard University Press, 2020), Antigone (Routledge, 2023), and Ancient Necropolitics: Maltreating the Living, Abusing the Dead in Greek Antiquity (Mnemosyne Supplement 492, Brill, 2025).