Maria Dimitropoulou holds a BA Honours degree cum laude in English language and Literature from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an M.Phil. with Distinction in Applied Linguistics from Trinity College Dublin. She is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences focusing on bilingual and multilingual parenting in Europe. Maria has extensive experience teaching English at different levels and in a variety of contexts in Greece and in the UK. She has also worked as a teacher of modern Greek at the Department of Classics at Trinity College Dublin.