Ioanna Karamanou
Vice-Dean of the School of Philosophy of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Ioanna Karamanou graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the University of Athens with grade ‘excellent’ (9.48/10.00). She read for the MPhil and PhD in Classics at the University of Cambridge (St John’s College) and University College London respectively, with research grants by the Cambridge European Trust, the A.S. Onassis and the Ο. Stathatou Foundations. Her doctoral dissertation was shortlisted for the Hellenic Foundation Award in 2005. Her research interests include Greek drama and its reception, Greek tragic and comic fragments, literary papyrology and ancient literary theory (especially Aristotle) on tragedy. She has authored: 1. Euripides: Danae and Dictys, Leipzig/Munich 2006, 2. Euripides: Alexandros, Berlin/Boston 2017, 3. Refiguring Tragedy: Studies in Plays preserved in Fragments and their Reception, Berlin/Boston 2019, 4. Fragmenta Comica 25.2: Diphilus (frr. 59-85: Paralyomenos-Chrysochoos), Göttingen 2024, 5. Fragmenta Comica 25.3: Diphilus (Incertarum Fabularum Fragmenta), Göttingen (forthcoming). She has edited four volumes (currently editing two more collective volumes) and has published more than 70 articles and chapters in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. Her published work enumerates more than 1,600 citations. She has participated in six international research projects and has organized six international conferences. In 2018 she was granted the Academy of Athens Award for Classical Philology for her book Euripides: Alexandros (De Gruyter 2017) and since 2002 she has been fellow of the Cambridge European Society. She is a reviewer of books for Oxford University Press, and of articles for highly-rated journals, including Transactions of the American Philological Association, Mnemosyne, Classical Philology, and Trends in Classics. She is Associate Editor of Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes and Main Editor for Drama in De Gruyter’s Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH). She has given more than 80 conference lectures and has been an Invited speaker at Harvard (CHS), Princeton, Columbia, Brown, and Oxford Universities. Since 2023 she is co-organiser of the Graduate Student Summer Workshop on Greek Tragedy of Princeton University. Since 2022 she is Head of the Faculty of Philology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (previously Head of the Classics Department, 2019-20, 2021-22) and since 2025 Vice-Dean of the School of Philosophy.