She majored in French Literature, as well as English and American Literature, at the University of Athens (1983) before specializing in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She earned her Doctorat in 1999 at the Universiti de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, with a dissertation on "Saint-John Perse et la Grhce." She also holds a degree on Political Institutions and Constitutional Law from the University of Paris-IV. May Chehab's research interests focus on new autobiography, the reception of Pre-Socratic philosophy in modern French Literature and the interaction between literature and science. [Last Updated 2005]