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Anna Despotopoulou is Professor in English Literature and Culture and has been teaching in the Department of English Language and Literature since 2002. She holds degrees in English Studies from the University of Athens (BA), the University of Oxford (M.Phil.), and the University of Reading (Ph.D.). Her research interests lie in Victorian, Modernist, and contemporary fiction, Henry James, and feminist theory. She teaches 19th and 20th century English fiction. She is the author of Women and the Railway, 1850-1915 (Edinburgh University Press, 2015). She has co-edited the volumes Reconstructing Pain and Joy: Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Perspectives (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), Henry James and The Supernatural (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), Transforming Henry James (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination (Palgrave Macmillan 2019), Hotel Modernisms (Routledge 2023), Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters(Routledge 2025), and the third issue of the e-journal Synthesis on Realism. She has published many articles on Henry James, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, and Rhoda Broughton, among others, in internationally published books and journals. She is the leader of the research project "Hotels and the Modern Subject, 1890-1940" funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research & Innovation. She is the President of the Henry James Society in 2023.