Curriculum Vitae
Ekaterini Maragkoudaki is a PhD candidate in Slavic Studies with an academic background in Russian Philology. Her research focuses on Bulgarian representations of Byzantium in modern historiography, literature, and school education.
She holds a BA in Philosophy and Social Studies from the School of Philosophy at the University of Crete (2003), as well as a BA in Russian Philology and Slavic Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2022). In 2026, she completed an MA in Byzantine Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, graduating with distinction. Her MA dissertation examined the use of Byzantine sources in Bulgarian literature. Since 2023, she has been a PhD candidate in the Department of Russian Philology and Slavic Studies at the same university, under the supervision of Professor Panos Sophoulis. Her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Bulgarian Representations of Byzantium in the Context of Twentieth-Century Social Transformations: Their Reflection in Bulgarian School Textbooks of history”, examines the changing representations of Byzantium in Bulgarian history textbooks.
Since September 2026, she has worked as a researcher in Byz-GOVAG at the Academy of Athens. Her responsibilities include the systematic recording of bibliographical and archival material, field research in public and private collections, data entry in standardised Excel files, and the regular updating of the TAKTIKON database. She also prepares quarterly progress reports on the completion of the assigned research tasks.
Research interests: Byzantine palaeography; Byzantine literature; Old Church Slavonic manuscripts; medieval and modern Bulgarian history; medieval and modern Russian history; Bulgarian literature.