Peter Mackridge

Peter Mackridge was born in England in 1946. He attended St. John's College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Modern Greek and French philology. With a scholarship from Queen's College of the same university, he lived in Athens from 1969 to 1972, conducting research for his doctoral thesis on the Greek novel of the interwar period. From 1973 to 1980, he was a Lecturer in Modern Greek Philology at King's College, University of London, and from 1981 until his retirement in 2004, he taught at the University of Oxford, where he was also a fellow of St. Cross College. Throughout these years, he focused on teaching Modern Greek language and literature and published articles on Solomos, Karyotakis, pre-war and post-war Greek novels, and the Pontic dialect. He also edited the publication of the novels "Eroica" and "In Chatzifrangou's" by Kosmas Politis in the "New Greek Library" series by Hermes Publishers, initially, and later by the Bookstore of Estia. Peter Mackridge has traveled to many parts of Greece, which he considers his second homeland.