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Lilia Diamantopoulou
Lilia Diamantopoulou is assistant professor in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her dissertation focuses on Greek visual and concrete poetry presenting an historical overview from the first Hellenistic technopaegnia to Byzantine or neoclassicist examples up to Seferis’s calligrammes or modern hyperpoetry. Diamantopoulou received her MA in Comparative Studies, Modern Greek Studies and Early Christian and Byzantine Art at Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Germany), where she also had a regular teaching position and was a Member of the Mentoring Program LMU-Excellent. During her graduate studies, she participated in the exhibition ‘SchriftBild’ in Munich and attended courses at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Alma Mater in Bologna. In 2011, she received the Panagiotis Moullas price (National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, MIET) for a study on a visual poem for King Otto I written by Neofytos Doukas.