Evi Petropoulou is Associate Professor of German Literature (of the 20th Century) and of Comparative Literature in the Department of German Language and Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. She studied German Literature at the University of Athens and Comparative Literature at Saarland University in Germany, where she completed her Ph.D. on a DAAD scholarship. She is the author of a History of Modern Greek Literature,published by Suhrkamp Verlag.

Currently, she holds the position of Max Kade Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages & Literatures at the University of Rhode Island and is also a Visiting Scholar in the Department of Comparative Literature at Harvard University. Her current research focuses on heterotopian experience in urban spaces within early 20th-century modernist literature.

Her areas of teaching and research interests include Comparative, European & World literature, literary theory, modernism, urban modernity, intermediality, literature and the arts, spatial theory and theories of memory.