Afroditi Athanasopoulou was born in Thebes and lives in Rhodes. She has been a distinguished graduate of the University of Crete (1989, classification: 9,40/10) and holds a M.Sc. (1992) and a Ph.D. (1999) in Modern Greek Literature. She has taught Modern Greek Literature at the Universities of Padova (1992-1997), Patras (2000-2002) and at the Hellenic Open University (2005-06). She also worked for five years (2003-2008) as a specialised collaborator at the “Laboratory of History and Social Sciences” of the Department of Primary Education (P.T.D.E.) at the University of the Aegean. She has partecipated in research programmes and projects regarding Modern Greek Literature and the Public Instruction as a coordinator or a researcher scholar. Since 2003 she collaborates with various educational institutions (such as the Pedagogical Institute of the Hellenic and the Cypriot Ministry of Education) in training employed teachers on the Didactics of Language, Literature and History according to the new “inter-disciplinary” Curriculum for the compulsory education.

She has attended many congresses and workshops held in Greece and abroad and she has published several essays on various subjects and authors of Modern Greek Literature: Solomos, Kavafis, Seferis, Viziinos, Kazantzakis, Montis; Greek Romanticism, the modern Greek “Language Question”; Theory of Letterature: Narratology, Metrics ecc. Her actual scientific interests are oriented in the cross-disciplinary approach of Literature and History.

She has translated from italian the inter-disciplinary based monograph of Massimo Peri, "Malato d’amore: La poesia dei medici e la medicina dei poeti" (greek edition: 1999) and she is the co-author (with Giorgos Kokkinos and Gavrilis Lampatos) of the recent book "Mataiomeni Outopia: Giannis Gavriilidis, Nikos Karaghiannis kai alloi sintrofoi" (2008). She is preparing a book on Kazantzakis and an essay on Applied theory and Teaching of Literature. She also collaborates as a curator and translator with reputable greek editors such as the University of Crete Press (P.E.K.) and the Benaki Museum.

She is interested in all kinds of human creativity with a special preference in belles arts: literature, cinema, theatre, sculpture and painting, as well as applied arts: architecture, decoration, industrial design ecc. She occasionally publishes her own writings in literary periodicals.