Anastasia Giannakidou studied Classical Philology and Linguistics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, and received her PhD in Linguistics from University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She is one of the founders and the director of the Hellenic Studies Center at the University of Chicago. She is also a co-director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language, and a collaborator in the Bilingualism Matters initiative in Chicago. Giannakidou's main interests are on linguistic meaning, the relation between meaning and form, and how language is used to convey subjectivity, including ideology. She is particularly interested in studying variation and diversity across languages. Her main language of study is Modern Greek. She has done comparative work on German, Dutch, Spanish, Basque, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese, and has worked on diachronic syntax and semantics. She is the author of numerous articles and books and is presently working on a book entitled Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought, forthcoming with University of Chicago Press.