Marianthi Kaplanoglou

Professor of Folklore Studies (Laographia)

mkaplanog@phil.uoa.gr 

Faculty of Philology, Department of Byzantine Philology and Folkloristics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimiopolis, 157 84 Ilissia, Athens, Hellas.
 

 Tel.: +30-210-7277729  (Room 705)

Marianthi Kaplanoglou made her studies at the University of Athens and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, as a student of Michalis Meraklis, André Guillou, Claude Bremond and Hélène Antoniadis-Bibicou. She joined the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean (1996-2008) and since 2008, the Department of Philology of the University of Athens. Her research interests are on folk narrative, the social history of folk culture, comparative folklore and literature of Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, children’s folklore and folklore in education.   She is a member of the editing committee for the publication of Georgios Megas’ National Catalogue of the Greek Folktales, edited by the Greek National Research Center and the Academia Scientiarum Fennica. She was among the scientific partners for the edition of the Enzyklopädie des Märchens by the Akademie der Wissenschaften of Göttingen. She was also member of the organizational committees of the international conferences "The Brothers Grimm and the folktale: narrations, readings, transformations” and of the conference “From Homer to Hatzi-Yavrouda: Aspects of Oral Narration in the Greek Tradition”.  She is co-director with Michalis Meraklis of the series of translations on international folklore studies (including translations of Hermann Bausinger’s, Volkskultur in der technischen Welt, Max Lüthi’s, Das Volksmärchen als Dichtung, Pertti J. Anttonen’s, Tradition through modernity. Postmodernism and the nation-state in Folklore scholarship).  Kaplanoglou is also a member of Greek Folklore Society and of the GRENO (Groupe de Recherche Européen sur la Narrative Orale). She has published books and articles in international journals, like Folklore, Fabula, Estudis Estudis de Literatura Oral Popular, Archivio Anthropologico Mediterraneo,Folklore Fellows Network and others. She has recently published the book Folktales and every-day life. Theoritical and empirical evidence of a folklore research in Rhodes (in greek, 648 pages, Patakis Publications, 2022).

Zoe Zoupa
Special Technical and Laboratory Staff (ETEP) of the Department of Philology

Zoe Zoupa studied Library Science at the School of Administration and Economics of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She is a member of the Special Technical and Laboratory Staff (ETEP) of the Department of Philology.

Since 1990 she has worked as a librarian at the Specialized Folklore Library (Spoudasterion) with a Folklore Collection of Objects and Manuscripts now known as the Folklore Museum and Archives of the Department of Philology of the School, of Philosophy of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Additionally, she was involved in archiving and managing the Primary Folklore Material Archive and the Museum Collection, which have always been an integral part of the Folklore Library. In this context, she assisted in the practical training of postgraduate students of the Master’s Program in "Folklore Studies - Theory and Applications of Folk Culture," focusing on the organization, documentation, transcription, and digitization of manuscript collections and museum objects of the Folklore Library, as well as the collection of primary folklore material by undergraduate and postgraduate students.

She has made a significant contribution to the integration of the Manuscript Archive and the Museum Collection of the Folklore Library into the Digitization and Documentation Program of "Pergamos," the Unified Institutional Repository / Digital Library of the University of Athens.

Through training programs and collaborations with specialized individuals and organizations, she has acquired knowledge and practical experience in the organization, management, and preventive conservation of archives and museum collections.

After the establishment of the Folklore Museum and Archives in 2017 and the incorporation of the Specialized Libraries (Spoudasteria) into the Central Library of the School of Philosophy, she was elected as a member of the Special Technical and Laboratory Staff (ETEP) of the Department of Philology in May 2019. In this position, she provides laboratory, technical, and archival services within the framework of the organization, operation, use, and public presentation of the Folklore Museum and Archives of the Department of Philology at the University of Athens. She also continues to assist in the practical training of postgraduate students in Folklore Studies and the collection of primary folklore material by undergraduate and postgraduate students.