Anastasia Giannakidou focuses on linguistic meaning, the relationship between meaning and form, and the relation between meaningfulness and truth. She is the author and editor of many books and articles, including Polarity Sensitivity as Nonveridical Dependency (John Benjamins Publishing Co., 1998), Quantification, Definiteness, and Nominalization (Oxford University Press, 2009), and Mood, Aspect, and Modality Revisited (University of Chicago Press, 2016). Giannakidou is working on a book “Truth and Veridicality in Grammar and Thought,” where she looks at the category of mood (indicative, subjunctive) in Greek and Italian as a window to the relation between language, truth, and our perception and understanding of reality. She is Professor in the Department of Linguistics and the College, Director of the newly established Hellenic Studies Center, and Co-Director of the Center for Gesture, Sign and Language at the University of Chicago. She also serves as a collaborator with the Bilingualism Research Lab at the University of Illinois at Chicago.