Professor Dimitris Papanikolaou

Dimitris’s research focuses on the ways Modern Greek literature opens a dialogue with other cultural forms (especially Greek popular culture) as well as other literatures and cultures; the other important strand of his research focuses on queer theory and Greek queer cultures. He is committed to literary and cultural theory and the new perspectives they offer for the study of literature.

He has written the monographs:  Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (Legenda, 2007), “Those people made like me”: C.P.Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality (Patakis, 2014, in Greek) and There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship in a time of crisis (Patakis, 2018, in Greek) and edited New Queer Greece: Performance, Politics, Identity, a special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture (Volume 4, Number 2, 1 October 2018). He is currently in the process of writing Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of  Biopolitics for Edinburgh University Press.