Panagiotis Roilos

Panagiotis Roilos ( Greek Παναγιώτης Ροϊλός ; * 1969 ) is a Greek Neo-Grecist and since 2000 George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard University .

Life

Roilos completed his studies in Classical Philology , Byzantine Studies and Neo-Greek Studies at the University of Athens in 1991 with a diploma (Ptychion) and received his doctorate in 1999 from Harvard University . Shortly before, in 1998, he had already taken up the position of Assistant Professor of Byzantine Literature at Ohio State University . In 2000 he was appointed George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies at Harvard University . In 2009 he was a fellow at Dumbarton Oaks . In 2018 the Pantion University of Athens awarded him an honorary doctorate.

Research priorities

Roilos works on post-classical, medieval and modern Greek literature (especially on Byzantine romance , Erotokritos and Kavafis and Kazantzakis ), on premodern and modern literary theory , on European aestheticism , on the relationship between German Romanticism and Classical Philology and on the Enlightenment . Other topics include orality and literacy and comparative poetics as well as ritual theory and literary anthropology. He has also carried out extensive field research on traditional oral literature in southern Italy , Crete and the Peloponnese . Current research projects concern the reception of antiquity in the Enlightenment in particular with regard to the Greek diaspora in Hungary and Romania , rhetoric ( Johannes Sikeliotes ), the interaction of philosophy and rhetoric in Byzantine literature of the 11th and 12th centuries as well as the interdiscursiveness of the Rituals in Greek Literature and Society.

Roilos is the co-founder and co-editor of the Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings series and the Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library . He serves on the editorial board of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library .

Fonts

Monographs

• CP Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy . University of Illinois Press, 2009.
• Amphoteroglossia. A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel . Harvard University Press, 2005. Reviews: Foteini Kolovou . In: Byzantinische Zeitschrift , 100.2, 2007, pp. 894–897; Martin Hinterberger . In: International Journal of the Classical Tradition 15.1, 2008, pp. 163–166
• (with Dimitrios Yatromanolakis ): Towards a Ritual Poetics , 2003; Greek edition, trans. by Manos Skoura, with a foreword by Marcel Detienne under the title For an Anthropological Approach , 2005.

Editorships

• (Ed.): Imagination and Logos: Essays on CP Cavafy . Harvard University Press, 2010.
• (Ed., With Dimitrios Yatromanolakis): Greek Ritual Poetics . Harvard University Press, 2005
• Margaret Alexiou : Ritual Lament in Greek Tradition (Cambridge University Press, 1974). Revised by Dimitrios Yatromanolakis and Panagiotis Roilos. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002, ISBN 0-7425-0757-2 , books.google.de ; Greek edition: 2002

items

• Ancient Greek Rhetorical Theory and Christian Discursive Politics: The Defense of Rhetoric in the Work of Ioannes Sikeliotes (11th c.) . In: Festschrift in honor of Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys (forthcoming).
• Orality, Ritual, and the Dialectics of Performance . In: K. Reichl (Ed.): Medieval Oral Literature . Berlin 2009.
• Ekphrasis and Ritual Poetics: From the Ancient Greek Novel to the Late Medieval Greek Romance . In: Anton Bierl et al. (Ed.): Literature and religion: Mythical-ritual structures in the text . Munich 2008, pp. 335–358.
• The Novels of Nikos Kazantzakis: Heteroglossic Narratives and Ideological Misinterpretations (in Greek). In: Nikos Kazantzakis: His Work and His Reception , Herakleion 2006, pp. 271-293.
• The Politics of Writing: Greek Historiographic Metafiction . In: Journal of Modern Greek Studies 21.2, 2004, pp. 1–23.
• Orality and Performativity in Erotokritos . In: Cretan Studies , 7, 2002, pp. 213-230.

Web links

• Personal page in the Department of Classics at Harvard University
• Personal page in the Center for European Studies at Harvard University
• Fellowship Report Dumbarton Oaks 2009
• Anna Grimani: Interview on: kathimerini.gr, November 23, 2008

Individual evidence

1. ^ Honorary Doctorate Awarded to Panagiotis Roilos. Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, January 23, 2018, accessed January 26, 2018 .