Dr. Zacharoula Christopoulou is a cultural historian primarily concerned with the processes through which collective memory is constituted, sustained, and transformed through ritualized acts of remembrance and a multiplicity of cultural, political, and narrative sources. Her approach is fundamentally interdisciplinary, grounded in the conviction that only through methodological synthesis can we apprehend the past as a fluid and continuously reconfigured construct, one that exerts enduring political and social reverberations in the present.

Her doctoral research interrogated the construction of British and European memory cultures of the First World War, incorporating in particular the Balkan interpretative framework and its entanglements with broader continental narratives.  She has published ‘World War I Fictions as Counter-Narratives’ in Deborah Phillips and Katy Shaw (eds.), Literary Politics: The Politics of Literature and the Literature of Politics, exploring the dynamic interplay between official discourse and personal testimony, and examining how this interaction shapes and contests the production of historical memory. She holds an MA in European and Comparative Literary Studies from the University of Kent, where her research focused on the cultural memory of fascism in women’s writing. She also earned a BA in History from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with a specialization in 20^th century European history and diplomacy.