Life
Soti Triantafillou finished English-Hellenic Elementary School and graduated from French-Hellenic High School cum laude as special talent. Her further education includes: Diplôme d’Etudes de Lettres et Civilisation Françaises, Université de Nice, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Nice, France (1979), Bachelor of Science; Faculty of Pharmacology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece (1980), Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies (Master of Arts), Faculty of History and Civilizations, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (with professor Marc Ferro), Paris, France (1981), PhD, American History and Civilization, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (thesis on “The Image of the U.S. Through the Hollywood Comedy 1946-1960” with Professor Marc Ferro), Paris, France (1984), PhD, History of American Cities, NYU (Thesis “Los Angeles, California and Athens, Greece: Urban Patterns”) (1989) Soti Triantafillou speaks five languages (English, Greek, French, Italian, German). She worked as professor of History and Film Studies at the Hellenic Film School, (1985-2000) and she has been a visiting lecturer at the Aegean University, Faculty of Geography/ Faculty of History/ Faculty of Urbanism, Mytilene, Greece (20040-2007). Her academic work includes the project “The Image of Los Angeles in the Movies” (with Professor Jean Heffer) for the Centre d’Etudes Nord-Américaines, Paris, France (1984-1985). Also, she is a journalist for the weekly Athens Voice and Eleftheros Typos. She comments on international and American affairs, luralism, and multi-culturalism, State theory, urban planning.
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