Natasha (Anastasia Aglaia) Lemos was brought up in Athens where her first degree was in law. Latterly she obtained a PhD at SOAS for a thesis on the literatures of Greece and Turkey inspired by the war of 1919-1922 and the subsequent exchange of populations. She is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King’s College, London, a member of the Executive Board of the Hellenic Centre in London and of the Board of Overseers of the Gennadius Library in Athens.