She studied Modern Greek Literature at the Universities of Athens and Oxford. Her thesis ("Greek short stories in the last quarter of the 20th century: Contributions to the Investigation of the Postmodern") was awarded the Constantine Trypanis Award (2004). She conducted postdoctoral research at the Hellenic Open University (HOU). She has taught Modern Greek Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Patras and at the Hellenic Open University. She has been teaching at the University of Crete since 2008, where she directs the Research Lab of Literary Genres and Literary History.

Her research interests focus on Modern Greek Literature from the late 19th century to the present day, and include literary theory and the use of digital technologies for the study and teaching of literature. Among other publications, she has authored the monograph Nature Faraway, So Close: An Ecocritical Study of Modern Greek Fiction (Kallipos 2023) and has participated as lead author (with A. Kastrinaki, I. Dimitrakakis, K. Daskala) in the writing of a textbook on Modern Greek fiction in the long 1960s (Kallipos 2015). She has also co-edited, with I. Dimitrakakis, the volume Metapolitefsi 1974-1981: Literature and Cultural History (Publications of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete, 2021), and with T. Kayialis a volume on the distance teaching of literature in higher education (Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online, and Blended Learning, Bloomsbury 2010). Lastly, she has translated in Greek P. Barry’s, Beginning Theory (Vivliorama 2013).