Kostis is a researcher, external associate of the Institute of Modern Texts and Manuscripts (ITEM, CNRS/ENS, Paris) and. He holds a PhD in Modern Greek Language and Literature from the University of Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and postgraduate degrees in Modern Greek Studies (King’s College London) and in Semiotics (Université Denis Diderot–Paris VII). He has been teaching Modern Greek Literature as adjunct faculty at the Open University of Cyprus, Program of Studies “Hellenistic Culture” since 2012. Previously he taught Modern Greek Language at the European University of Cyprus, and he has collaborated as a Postgraduate Researcher with the University of Padua, Italy. He has also taught as invited academic at the University of Lisbon and Jagellonian University Krakow. His research interests encompass Modern Greek and comparative literature, genetic criticism (critique génétique), literary multilingualism, and Modern Greek and comparative metrics. He has published widely in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes and he is the co-editor (with George Pilides) of the volume Autografi letterari romanzi e neogreci (SARGON, Padova 2015). He has been serving as Director of the Centre for Literary and Cultural Studies since its establishment in 2021.