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Takis Kayalis

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Takis Kayalis is a Professor of Modern Greek Literature at the Hellenic Open University. He studied English and Greek Literature at the University of Athens, the University of Essex, and New York University, from which he received his Ph.D., supported by fellowships from the Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson foundations. He has previously taught Modern Greek and Comparative Literature at Queens College, CUNY, the University of Crete, the University of Cyprus, and the University of Ioannina. He also designed and implemented a large number of research projects at the Center for the Greek Language in Thessaloniki, where he served as a member of the Executive Board and Academic Director of the Language and Literature Department for 17 years (1994–2011). His research focuses on 19th- and 20th-century literature and criticism, as well as digital humanities and literary pedagogy.

He has written the following book titles:

  • “Cavafy as World Literature” (co-edited with Vicente Fernández González, forthcoming, Bloomsbury, 2024);
  • “Cavafy in his Time. Conference Proceedings (in Greek)” (editor, forthcoming, 2024);
  • “Cavafy's Hellenistic Antiquities: History, Archaeology, Empire” (Palgrave/Springer, 2023);
  • “George Seferis’s Poetics and Its Critical Reception. Shaping Greek Modernism” (in Greek). (Athens: Kallipos, 2023);
  • Teaching Literature at a Distance: Open, Online and Blended Learning. Ed., with Anastasia Natsina (Bloomsbury, 2010);
  • Seferis for younger/new readers (in Greek). Ed., with Evripidis Garantoudis. ((karos, 2008);
  • The desire for the Modern. Limitations and claims of the literary intelligentsia in Greece during the 1930s (in Greek). (Vivliorama, 2007).