Nikoletta Korka

nikkorka@upatras.gr
Tel. : (+30) 2610 962 426

Sector : Division of Social Theory and Analysis

Nikoletta Korka is a graduate of the Department of Primary Education at the Democritus University of Thrace (2010–2014). She holds a joint Greek-French Master’s degree entitled “Didactics of Multilingualism and Language Policies: Dissemination of Languages and Cultures in Multilingual Environments” from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Le Mans Université (2014–2016), as well as a Master’s degree in Technical Translation from the Department of ITIRI, Université de Strasbourg (2015–2017). In 2021, she received her PhD by the Department of Early Childhood Education at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For her doctoral dissertation, entitled “Translational Interventions and Adaptations in the Short Stories of Alexandros Papadiamantis in Their Transfer into Modern Greek for Children and Young Readers,” she received a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). In 2024, she presented her postdoctoral research titled “Translations and Retranslations of the Works of Charles Dickens into Greek for Children and Young Readers: The Case of David Copperfield.” During the academic year 2022–2023, she taught as an adjunct lecturer at the Department of French Language and Literature of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has worked as an in-house translator and translation project manager, while from 2019 to 2025 she served as a permanent primary school teacher. Her research interests focus on Children’s Literature, Translation—both intralingual and interlingual—for children and young readers, and Comparative Literature. Since December 2025, she has been appointed (Government Gazette 4700/09.12.2025, Issue C, p. 26414) as a member of the Laboratory Teaching Staff (EDIP) at the Department of Educational Sciences and Early Childhood Education, University of Patras.

Children’s Literature, Translation, intralingual and interlingual, for children and young readers, Theory of Literature, Comparative Literature