Christoforos Sassaris

Christoforos Panagiotis Sassaris, from Athens, Greece, earned his B.A. in English Literature with a minor

in Computer Science from West Chester University in spring 2020. Christoforos has worked at the Library Company of Philadelphia, West Chester University’s Special Collections Library, College Literature: A Journal of Critical Literary Studies, The Quad student newspaper, the West Chester Film Festival, and as a researcher at West Chester University’s Summer Undergraduate Research Institute. His research interests include the history of the book, reception of Hellenism in anglophone literature, early modern English literature, and more. Christoforos is currently working on a presentation for the East Central / American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, in which he examines the second edition of Yerasimos Vlachos’ 1659 dictionary, Thesauros Tetraglossos (Θησαυρός Τετράγλωσσος). In the past, he has presented at the English Association of Pennsylvania State Universities' professional conference and the Penn State University’s Early Period Studies Group conference. Christoforos is excited to continue his studies as an M.A. student at Villanova University starting this fall!