Maria is Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek Language and Literature at the Theological School of the Church of Cyprus. She read Classics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and received her PhD from the University of Bristol, UK. She also holds an MA in Classics and an MSc in Digital Education. Before her current employment, she has worked as a Teaching Fellow/Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Bristol, the University of Cyprus, and the Open University of Cyprus. She has also been involved in a number of research projects at the University of Cyprus and the Open University of Cyprus. She has been awarded several scholarships: Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Μargo Tytus Summer Fellow (University of Cincinnati), National Scholarship Foundation of Greece (IKY), A. G. Leventis Foundation, Αrts and Humanities Research Council (U.K.), Fondation Hardt (Geneva), J. Costopoulos Foundation. She has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes and is the co-editor (with Prof. Vayos Liapis and Prof. Antonis Petrides) of Debating with the Eumenides (Cambridge Scholars 2018) and of the collective volume Framing the Dialogues: How to Read Openings and Closures in Plato, published by Brill in 2020 (co-edited with Prof. Antonis Tsakmakis and Dr Eleni Kaklamanou). She currently coordinates the Project AUGE (Αdvancing Utterly Green Environments), which is funded by Erasmus+.