Vasiliki Petsa

PETSA Vasiliki

Research Fellow (RCF)

Affiliated Teaching Staff (Open University of Cyprus)

Research interests:

Comparative Literature
Cultural Studies
Modern Greek Studies
Italian Studies
Diaspora Studies

Vasiliki Petsa holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature (University of the Peloponnese, 2014). She was a member of a research team working on the project ‘Greek Working-Class Literature from the Interwar Years to the Present’ (University of Crete, ‘Support of Researchers with a focus on Young Researchers – B’ Cycle’, in the framework of NSRF 2014-2020). She was P.I. of the Postdoctoral Research Project ‘Gender and Ethnicity in Greek Working-Class Literature’ (University of Thessaly, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, 3rd Call for HFRI Projects to support Postdoctoral Researchers, GEWOCL, 7520. Duration: 29 months), focusing on working-class narratives of the Greek-Australian diaspora. She is also a fiction writer.

Main publications:

Petsa, V. & Sifaki, E. (eds.) (2025) Λογοτεχνικές αφηγήσεις (περί) της εργατικής τάξης στη Μεσόγειο/ Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures (Volos: University of Thessaly Press).
Petsa, V. (2025) ‘Performing Gender and Ethnicity in Greek-Australian Working-Class Poetry’, Λογοτεχνικές αφηγήσεις (περί) της εργατικής τάξης στη Μεσόγειο»/ Conference Proceedings, Mediterranean Working-Class Literatures, edited by Vasiliki Petsa & Evgenia Sifaki (Volos: University of Thessaly Press), 141-152.
Petsa, V. & Natsina, A. (2025) ‘The Erasure of Class from Working-Class Fiction in the Modern Greek Literary Canon (1922-1989)’, Transnational Working-Class Literatures. Canons and Connections in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, edited by Magnus Nilsson, Mike Sanders & Wiktor Marzec (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan), 73-96.
Petsa, V. (2024) ‘“A washed pig returns to the mud”: The Working Class in Greek Literature in the Interwar Years and the 1980s’, Waste and Discard in Italy and the Mediterranean: Theories, Practices, Literature and Film, edited by Graziella Parati, Marta Cariello, Damiano Benvegnù, and Matteo Gilebbi (Oxford: Peter Lang), 209-229.
Petsa, V., Zissimopoulou, S., Natsina, A. & Dimitrakakis, Y. (2021) ‘The Transformations of Greek Working-Class Fiction from the Interwar Period to the Present’, Journal of Working-Class Studies, 6(2): 5-20.