Vassilis Sabatakakis is an Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Lund (Sweden). He has supervised master’s and doctoral level dissertations at Lund and has participated in scientific committees for doctoral dissertations at the Universities of Crete and Ioannina. Since 2015, he has been the editor-in-chief and publishing manager of the annual Scandinavian Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and since 2018, he has served as the elected president of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies.

He has taught and conducted research on Greek language and literature, as well as on European travel literature and Philhellenism. Additionally, he has been involved in the translation of works of Greek prose and poetry into Swedish and has authored numerous entries in Swedish encyclopedias on the Greek language, literature, and society, as well as the etymology of Greek-derived terms.

His recent publications include the volume “Jacob Jonas Björnståhl i Europa och Constantinopel 1767-1779” (2021) – the result of his collaboration with three other researchers in a research project on the eminent Swedish orientalist and traveler, funded by the Swedish Research Council. In 2022, he co-authored with G. Kalpadakis the publication “A Swedish Philhellenic Pamphlet from 1821”, while in 2023, he contributed a study on Swedish taxi-journeyers in the Eastern Mediterranean to the edited volume “Textualising the Experience – Digitalising the Text: Cyprus through Travel Literature (15th-18th Centuries)”.

He is currently preparing the Greek edition of Björnståhl’s travel narrative, as well as editing the unpublished diary of the Swedish pastor A. F. Sturtzenbecker from his journey to Greece in 1784.