Panagiotis Roilos

Classicist

Contact Information
Phone: (617) 495-7783
E-Mail: roilos@fas.harvard.edu


Biographical Statement

Roilos is a professor of modern Greek studies and of comparative literature, and director of the modern Greek studies program at Harvard. He specializes in the cultural history and politics of Greece—from the twelfth century to postmodernism—within its broader Mediterranean contexts and in its interactions with other Southeastern and Western European cultures. His research interests include literature and politics, ritual theory and semantics, comparative poetics, and cultural constructions of the past. Roilos is the author of C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Desire (2007), Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel (2005), and Towards a Ritual Poetics (2003; co-author with D. Yatromanolakis). His major publications also include Greek Ritual Poetics (co-editor; 2005). He is chair of the Humanities Center seminar on modern Greek literature and culture at Harvard.