Anna Tabaki is Professor Emerita at the Department of Theatre Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was born in Piraeus. She graduated from the ''Collège Franco-Hellénique Jeanne D'Arc'' High School. She studied Greek and French Literature at the University of Athens. Holding a postgraduate scholarship of the french government, she specialized in the fields of French, Comparative and Modern Greek Literature (Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand; Paris IV-Sorbonne). A student of C.Th. Dimaras at the Neohellenic Institute (Sorbonne) and ''Alexander S. Onassis'' scholarship recipient, she obtained her Ph.D. in History and Civilization at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris). Formerly a Researcher at the Centre (actually Department) for Neohellenic Research (1980-2000), she is DNR Guest Researcher and she was responsible for the project ''Modern Greek Translations'' (1997-2012).
She has taught History of Modern Greek Theatre (1995-2000) at the Department of Theatre Studies (University of Patras). In 1999 she was elected Associate Professor, and in 2004 Full Professor, at the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens. (2009-2014: Director of the Postgraduate Progamme; 2015-2017: Head of the Department).
Anna Tabaki is interested in Comparative Literature, with special emphasis on History of Ideas, on Translation Studies, on Comparative Dramatology and, finally, on History of the Neohellenic Theatre especially in the 18th-19th centuries. She has authored (or co-authored) 24 books, either monographs or edited volumes, and about 150 articles, essays and book reviews in renowned Greek and international academic journals (Études Balkaniques, Revue des Études Sud-Est Européennes, Synthesis, Neohelicon, Studies on Voltaire and the 18th century, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, etc.). She has also written entries on Neohellenic Enlightenment for the Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London-Chicago, 2000) and the Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment, Alan Charles Kors (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2003.
She has presented numerous papers in international conferences, university lectures and seminars, roundtables and symposia in Greece and abroad. She has participated in the exchange programme between the Athens-based NHRF and the Paris-based CNRS as well as in international academic networks, such as the European Science Foundation and the Association Internationale de Littérature comparée. Finally, she is member of various academic societies: among others, of the ''Society for the study of the Neohellenic Enlightenment'', the ''Greek Committee of South-eastern European Studies'', the ''Société française d'Étude du XVIIIe siecle'', and the ''Société Voltaire'', in the Bulletin of which she remains a correspondent member.