Dr. Georgia (Tzina) Kalogirou is a Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literature Teaching in the School of Education/Department of Pedagogy and Primary Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, and Director of two Postgraduate Programmes: of Rhetoric, Humanities, and Education (Interinstitutional-interdepartmental, NKUOA/UWM) and of Social Sciences and Humanities in Education (DPPE/NKUOA).  She is the author, editor or co-editor of academic books (in Greek and English) and numerous chapters/papers (in Greek, English French and Italian) in edited volumes, international and national refereed journals, and conference proceedings. She is a member of the steering committee of The Child and the Book International Conference and the co-editor in-chief (with Xavier Minguez Lopez) of the international academic Journal of Literary Education. She is also an official partner of the international research project TALIS, of the International Network Memità: Memory, Identity, Integration to Identify Analysis Models in Media Communication, composed by members of other 20 Universities around the World. She is also member of the Scientific Committees of the editorial series Laboratorio Children’s Books, for Anicia Edizioni–Rome, Niata for the University of Palermo, and of the international scientific committee Tρισκελής. Collana mediterranea di storia, letteratura e varia umanistica .    She is also the supervisor in chief  of the new Middle School  National Literature Curriculum.  Her latest academic books as an editor is The Silver School Bag. Creative teaching approaches for the Literary Classroom (2024) and  Aspects of Time and Memory in Literature for Children and Young Adults: Mnemosyne for Children. Edited and with an introduction by Tzina Kalogirou and Dorota Michulka. Foreword by Pat Pinsent (2024).