Christos Dermentzopoulos studied Sociology in Greece and History, Anthropology and Cinema in France (MA in History and Civilisation, University of Paris 1, Pantheon – Sorbonne and Anthropology / Cinema, Ecole des Hautes Études en Science Sociales, Paris). Ph.D in Sociology, Section: Aspects of the new Greek social life, Panteion University of Athens. Post-Doc in Film Studies in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture (1999-2021). He used to teach Anthropology of Art, Cultural Studies and Politics and History/Theory of Cinema in the Department of Fine Arts and Sciences of Art of the School of Fine Arts at the University of Ioannina from 2001 until 2022. He was the Director of the History of Art Laboratory in the same faculty for five years. Since November of 2022 he is a faculty member of the Department of Communication, Media and Culture of Panteion University of Athens.
He was a Tutor at the Hellenic Open University in the MA in Cultural Management from 2006 until 2018 and he was a Tutor at the Open University of Cyprus in the undergraduate Programme Studies in Hellenic Culture (2010-2013). He was an Academic Coordinator in the MA Programme Cultural Policy and Development at the Open University of Cyprus (2015-2017). Today he is a coordinator and Tutor at the Hellenic Open University in the MA Programme in Public History in the unity History and Cinema.
He was part (2017-2022) of the research team of the acclaimed multi-stakeholder Horizon 2020 Programme DETECt -Detecting Transcultural Identity in European Popular Crime Narrative. In addition, he is the Co-founder and Director of the arts and cultural organization Biennale of Western Balkans and has coordinated the educational modules in Secondary Education for Digital Scholarship.
He is the writer of the books The popular novel (pulp fiction) on banditry in Greece. Myths, Representations, Ideology (Plethron Editions, 1997) and The Invention of Place. Nostalgia and Memory in the Film A touch of spice (Opportuna Editions, 2013 and 2015) and co-editor of the volumes: Anthropology, Culture and Policy (with M. Spyridakis, Metaihmio Editions, 2004), Aspects of Popular Culture (with V. Nitsiakos, Plethron Editions, 2007), Ordinary People. Studies on Popular Culture (with G. Papatheodorou, Opportuna Editions, 2019) and European Crime Narratives (with N. Filippaios and L. Flitouris, Metaihmio Editions, 2022). He is a guest editor (with Rania Kosmidou), of the Special issue Studies in cultural memory (volume 12, Issue, 1 March 2016) of the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics and the Special issue (with Kostoula Kaloudi) Cinema and history: a country’s memory and the countries of memory (volume 5-7, 2019-2021) of the Interdisciplinary Journal for Theatre and the Arts, Theater Polis.
He is the editor of the series Alterities and Film Studies (Metaihmio Editions). He is also a reviewer and member of the editorial board in Journal Utopia.
His research interests concern visual and popular culture, anthropology of art, cultural politics and popular cinema. He is a member of Media Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) and L' Association internationale des chercheurs en Littératures Populaires et Cultures Médiatiques (LPCM) / International Research Association in Popular Literature and Media Culture (PLMC).
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