Tzina Kalogirou is Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literature Teaching in the School of Education/ Department of Primary Education at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece, and Director of the Postgraduate Programme of “Rhetoric, Humanities, and Education”. She is the author, editor or co-editor of 16 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 (with Xavier Minguez Lopez) of the international academic Journal of Literary Education. She is also an official partner of the international research project TALIS, 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».