Marianthi Yanni is Professor of English Literature and Culture at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens. She has studied in Greece and the USA and has taught at Wayne State University in Detroit, and The University of Crete. Her main area of interest is the English Renaissance and in particular Shakespeare in his global dimension. Her publications include various articles, and the following books: The Faerie Queene and the Greek Romances, Sense of a Self: Subjectivity and Language in John Donne’s Songs and Sonnets, and Shakespeare’s Travels: Greek Representations of Hamlet in the 19th century. Additionally, she has edited the first reprint of the 1889 Greek translation of Hamlet by I. Polylas, and the manuscript of a 1910 Greek version of King Lear by C. Theotokis. She has served as a Greek field editor in the journal World Literature Today and is currently an active member of the International Committee of the World Shakespeare Bibliography.

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