She teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design and has translated works from Greek to English, including books by Menis Koumandareas, Elias Maglinis [el], Tatiana Averoff, M. Karagatsis, and Amanda Michalopoulou.
Barbeito has a BA in English and American and comparative literature from Brandeis University, and an M.A.
In Retelling the Past in Contemporary Greek Literature, Film and Popular Culture, Barbeito and Vangelis Calotychos wrote about the fiction made by Elias Venezis and its connection to the Asia Minor Catastrophe and the 1923 exchange of population.
She has translated works by Menis Koumandareas, Elias Maglinis, Tatiana Averoff, M. Karagatsis and Amanda Michacholopoulou.
[6] Her translations of shorter works, including short stories and poetry, have been published in anthologies of Greek writing published by Penguin Books,[7] in Words Without Borders,[8][9] PEN America, Asymptote Blog, Catapult, InTranslation, and Exchanges.