Professional Service:

  Reviewer for

• Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier Science)
• Intercultural Pragmatics (Walter de Gruyter)
  
• Pragmatics (Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association)
• Language in Society (Cambridge University Press)
• Journal of Politeness Research (Walter de Gruyter)
• Pragmatics and Cognition (John Benjamins)
• Applied Linguistics (Oxford University Press)
• Journal of Greek Linguistics (John Benjamins)
• Language Sciences (Elsevier)
  
• Contrastive Pragmatics: Interlanguage and Cross-Cultural Perspectives (edited volume, Mouton de Gruyter) 
• Pragmatics and Language Learning (edited volume, University of Hawai’i Press)
• Constraints in Discourse (edited volume, John Benjamins)
  
• Third Cambridge Postgraduate Conference in Language Research (CamLing 2005)
• 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL 38)    

Workshop organisation       

• “Toward realistic models of language change: mapping psycholinguistics and sociolinguistic factors” Workshop at the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL XVIII), Université du Québec à Montréal (co-convenor with Ioanna Sitaridou), 10-11 August 2007
• “Language and hip-hop culture in a globalizing world” University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 10 November 2007
• “Hip-hop across the globe: what exactly is going global?” Thematic panel at Sociolinguistics Symposium 17 (SS17), Amsterdam, 3-5 April 2008
  

Conference organizing committees

• 21st Biennial Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association  (Vancouver, Canada, 17-19 October 2009)
• 9th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (Chicago, 29-31 October 2009)
  

Reading group  organisation

• Pragmatics Reading Group (co-convenor, University of Cambridge, January 1998 – June 2002)
• ‘Emergence in Language’ (British School at Athens, October 2002 – June 2003)
  
• ‘From classical eloquence to medieval courtliness to 21st century discursive politeness: perspectives on linguistic appropriateness over the centuries’: IPRH reading group, co-convenor with Rakesh Bhatt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2007 – May 2008)
  

Other events           

• A.G. Leventis Lecture: “The curse of Oedipus: language conflict and autonomy in Sophoclean tragedy” by Dr. M.M. Leezenberg (University of Amsterdam): organiser in liaison with the Netherlands Institute at Athens, British School at Athens, 18 February 2003
• HSA Film screening: “The Network” (directed by A. Apostolidis, Greece, 2005) followed by a roundtable discussion with UIUC experts: organiser on behalf of the Hellenic Students' Association, UIUC, 23 February 2007
  

Other Professional Experience:

Music

• I hold the Piano Performance Diploma (equivalent to B.Mus.;  "Excellent Unanimously - First Prize") from the Philippos Nakas Conservatory, Athens (1996) and the Piano Teaching Diploma ("Excellent Unanimously") from the AR Musical Academy, Heraklion, Crete (1992). From September 1994 till June 1996, I taught piano at The Philippos Nakas Conservatory, Athens, Greece.

Language teaching

• I taught conversational Greek to advanced foreign learners at the British School at Athens (2002-2003, 2005), and intermediate English to Greek learners (1992-1993).

Translation              

• I have undertaken freelance work specialising in legal correspondence (Greek- English).

Editing                    

• I had editorial responsibility for Principles and Parameters in a VSO Language by Ian Roberts (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Librarianship          

• I worked as a library invigilator at the Modern and Medieval Languages Faculty Library, University of Cambridge (2001-2002).

LANGUAGES:

Greek (native), English (near native), French (fluent in writing and speaking), Italian (fluent in writing and speaking)

Extra-curricular ActivitieS:

Voluntary service    

• Representative for Cyprus at the Campus Middle School/European Union Center Language, 21 February 2007
  
• Trinity Hall year representative for graduate students who enrolled in 1998
  
• Organiser: Grad Reunion for 1996-1999, 9-11 September 2005 (right-click on link to save a .pdf index of photos on your computer)
  
• Year Representative on the Trinity Hall Association for college alumni (2004-2008)
  
• Founding member of the Scholars’ Association of the A.G. Leventis Foundation in Greece
• During spring 1999, I acted and played the piano in a performance of “Libra”, a Cambridge-based theatrical company for able and disabled people.

Rowing

• I represented Trinity Hall in the Women’s III Boat in the May Bumps (University-wide races taking place termly) in 1999 and 2000.

Student representation

• Officer for Women’s issues on the Graduate Students’ Committee (MCR, 1997-8)

College journalism

• I have contributed articles to Trinity Hall’s news publication “Front Court”, which is published twice yearly.