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KARAVELI SOFIA

SOFIA KARAVELI

Postdoctoral Researcher

Literary Translation • Department of French Language and Literature • Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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Sofia Karaveli was born in Kavala in 1984. She is a postdoctoral researcher in the field of literary translation at the Department of French Language and Literature of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Professionally, she works in proofreading and book editing, while also teaching French and Greek as a foreign language.

Literary TranslationTheatre TranslationModern Greek TranslationFrancophone DramaAncient DramaLanguage Didactics
Education
  • Undergraduate studies in Greek Philology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001-2006).
  • Undergraduate studies at the Department of French Language and Literature of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2006-2010).
  • Master's degree from Université du Maine, Department of Arts, Letters and Languages, specialising in Didactiques des langues (FLE) (2010).
  • Ph.D. from Université de Lille, in the field of Études grecques (2019).
Master's Research
Her master's thesis focused on the teaching of Ancient Greek in lower secondary education through multilingual and multicultural practices.
Doctoral Research

In 2019, she completed her doctoral dissertation at Université de Lille in the field of Études grecques.

Her research examined contemporary Greek and French rewritings — theatrical works and translations — of Sophocles' tragedies:

  • Antigone
  • Oedipus Rex
  • Oedipus at Colonus
Literary and Theatre Translation
Since 2019, her research has focused on literary translation, resulting in academic publications and conference papers.

Her work addresses, among other topics, theatre translation, the relationship between ancient myth and contemporary drama, Francophone dramaturgy and questions of cultural transfer in translation.

Research Areas
  • Literary and theatre translation
  • Modern Greek translation
  • Contemporary Greek and French drama
  • Reception and rewriting of ancient drama
  • Myth, memory and identity
  • Cultural elements in translation
  • Surtitling and the performing arts
Editing and Proofreading
Professionally, she works in book proofreading and editing, alongside her research activity in literary translation.
Language Teaching
She teaches:
  • French
  • Greek as a foreign language
Language Didactics
Her academic background includes postgraduate study in Didactique des langues and research on multilingual and multicultural approaches to language teaching.
Selected Publications and Conference Papers
  1. “Surtitling at the Greek National Opera: Carving an Original Tradition”, Meta, 71.2, 2026 (forthcoming).
  2. Dimitroulia, T. & Karaveli, S., “Modern Greek Translation in the 20th Century”, International Scientific Conference Culture in the Historical Archive of the Newspapers “To Vima” and “Ta Nea”: Language and Literature , Athens, 5-6 December 2022. Historical Archive
  3. “Religious Swearing: Cultural Markers or Cultural Taboos? Issues and Practice in the Translation of Québécois sacres in Incendies”, Synkrisi, 30, 2021, pp. 172-202.
  4. “Marios Pontikas, Wajdi Mouawad: Sur les traces dʼŒdipe dans la quête dʼune nouvelle identité”, Parabasis, 17-18, 2021-2022, pp. 141-156.
  5. “Ancient Myth and Francophone Drama: Identity as a Product of Memory in the Work of Wajdi Mouawad”, 7th Conference of the Hellenic Society of General and Comparative Literature, Myth and Myths in Literature: In Memory of Zacharias I. Siaflekis , 13-16 May 2021, pp. 329-342.