Aphrodite is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Literature in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus. Her research interests focus on Greek Romanticism, modern Greek metrics, the relationship between history and literature, and the teaching of literature. She has also worked on narratology and literary topoi, language and cultural studies, and the history of ideas. She is the author of the book History and Literature in Dialogue (Epikentro, 2016). More recently, she published Figures of Speech (Metaichmio, 2022), as well as the Correspondence of Stylianos Alexiou and Lefkios Zafeiriou, which she edited and annotated (To Rodakio, 2022). She has also translated (from Italian) and/or edited studies and volumes that have had significant impact in Modern Greek Studies (on Vitsentzos Kornaros, Andreas Kalvos, C. P. Cavafy, Angelos Sikelianos, literary topoi, and narratology). She is the author of the Literature Curriculum for Cypriot education within the framework of the Educational Reform and serves as Coordinator of the Editorial Team for the lower secondary school textbooks.