Dimitris Papanikolaou

Dimitris Papanikolaou is Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Cultural Studies and Fellow of St. Cross College, University of Oxford. He studied Classics, Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at the University of Athens and University College London (London). He was Andrew G. Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Humanities (UCL, 2002-2004), and has also held fellowships at Princeton (Seeger Visiting Fellowship in Hellenic Studies, Dec. 2006- Feb.2007), Columbia (ICLS teaching fellowship, 2014) and NYU (Remarque Institute visiting fellowship, 2012). He has also worked for long spells as a journalist (Greek newspaper "Ependytis" and "BBC World Service") and as a literary critic or columnist with Greek national newspapers and magazines, among which "Ta Nea" and "Unfollow".

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). His book "Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics" was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021.