She is currently the Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature in the Classics Department of Columbia University in the City of New York.
in Medieval and Modern Languages from Oxford University in 1990 with a dissertation on The Poetics of Censorship in Greek Poetry, 1967-1990, under Peter Mackridge, Terry Eagleton, and external examiner Margaret Alexiou.
Her book Kassandra and the Censors (1998) examined Greek literature under and after the Dictatorship (1967-1974), in particular the crucial role played by women poets in creating a poetics that could escape censorship under the Colonels but could then be used to feminist ends after the regime fell.
[18][19] An anthology of her translations The Rehearsal of Misunderstanding (1998) made available in English the works of three of these women poets (Rhea Galanaki, Jenny Mastoraki, Maria Laina).
Some of her most recent collaborations include The Light that Burns Us (2021), an edited collection of Greek poet Jazra Khaleed, Hers (May 2022), a translation of a collection by Maria Laina, and a forthcoming bilingual edition of her own found poems, Lifted (June 2022), translated into Greek by poet Kyoko Kishida (Eleni Bourou).