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Research
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, the history of Greek queer cultures, and the difference they can make in people's lives and social movements. He is committed to literary, cultural and gender theory and the new perspectives they offer for the study of literature, culture and society. He is, therefore, equally committed to their wide dissemination and the inclusive social conversation that research in these areas can provoke.
He has written highly acclaimed monographs on literature and popular music in France and Greece, on Cavafy and the poetics of homosexuality, on the representation of Greek family in recent film, theatre and literature, and on the recent new wave of Greek cinema, also referred to as the 'Weird Wave'.
His next major writing projects include: a book-length essay on homophobia, racism and performative citizenship in Greece; a monograph titled After the Weird Wave: Greek Cinema and Biopolitical Realism (EUP).
His recent and current research projects include 'HIV/AIDS in Greece: A Political Archive', a Knowledge Exchange Fellowship funded by TORCH and run in partnership with Thetiki Foni (Positive Voice), the Athens-based Association of People Living with HIV; 'Queer Politics/ Public Memory', a public engagement project co-run with Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University), funded by Rosa Luxembug Stiftung Greece; Motherland, I See You, a year-long public screening, preservation and publication project on Greek cinema, organized by the Hellenic Film Academy, co-curated with Elina Psykou, Afroditi Nikolaidou and Syllas Tsoumerkas; and Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st Century: A Cultural Analysis Network, a collaboration with the University of Amsterdam co-run with Maria Boletsi, part of the TORCH International Partnership Scheme. The last project has now resulted in Greek Studies Now, a new, prize-winning platform for Modern Greek interdisciplinary studies.
His latest public engagement includes a collaboration with the Athens Epidaurus Festival, for which he has curated the series of events and roundtables Future Perfect? (2024) and Formidable Persistence (2025). For the 2026 edition of the festival he has curated a Lecture-Performance programme entitled Fireflies.
Teaching
Modern Greek Literature and Culture, 19th and 20th century (convenor and main tutor for all the Modern papers). Greek cinema. Queer theory and Gender Studies (in the MSt course). European Cinema. Cultural Studies (co-convenor of the MSt special subject).
Primary supervisor of fifteen finished DPhil theses on Greek and European literature, culture and cinema; most recent graduates Victoria Reuter, Foteini Dimirouli, Valia Tsaita Tsilimeni, Jessica Kourniakti, Tom Cuthbertson, Alex Pappas, Kristina Gedgaudaite, Spyridon Chairetis, Claudio Rusello, Trisevgeni Bilia, Alice Parrinello, and Billie Mitsikakos. Currently supervises: Orestis Tzirtzilakis, Elliot Koubis and Ioanna Chrysovitsioti.
Publications
Books
Greek Weird Wave: A Cinema of Biopolitics (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021 (hardback and e-book); 2023 (paperback)); read the introduction here; read a review here and a popular review article here; watch an online presentation here
Κ?τι τρ?χει με την οικογ?νεια: ?θνος, π?θος και συγγ?νεια την εποχ? της κρ?σης [There is something about the family: Nation, desire and kinship at a time of crisis] (Athens: Patakis, 2018; second edition 2020; third edition 2026); read the front matter and part of the introduction here; a review in English here and an indicative list of links to reviews in Greek here
«Σαν κ’ εμ?να καμωμ?νοι »: Ο ομοφυλ?φιλος Καβ?φης και η ποιητικ? της σεξουαλικ?τητας ["Those people made like me": Queer Cavafy and the poetics of sexuality] (Athens:Patakis, 2014 (paperback and e-book)); read the front matter and introduction here (e-book version); reviews in English here and here and an indicative list of links to reviews in Greek here
Singing Poets: Literature and Popular Music in France and Greece (Oxford: Legenda, 2007 (hardback); Routledge edition, 2018 (ebook); 2020 (paperback)) See excerpts on Googlebooks
Edited Books and Special Issues
Greece and the South: Grammars of Comparison, Protest and Futurity, special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 8:2 (2022) [co-edited with Maria Boletsi]
Motherland, I See You: The 20th Century of Greek Cinema / Χ?ρα σε βλ?πω: Ο εικοστ?ς αι?νας του ελληνικο? σινεμ? (Athens: Hellenic Film Academy and Nefeli publications, Greek and English versions, open access, 2022) [co-edited with Afroditi Nikolaidou]; read the contents and an extract from the introduction here [Greek; English]; watch a presentation in the Thessaloniki Film Festival here
Κ?στας Ταχτσ?ς: Η γιαγι? μου η Αθ?να και αλλα κε?μενα [Costas Taktsis: Essays and other texts, edited with notes and afterword] (Athens: Psichogios, 2021)
Κ?στας Ταχτσ?ς: Τα ρ?στα [Costas Taktsis: Short Stories, edited with notes and afterword] (Athens: Psichogios, 2021)
Κου?ρ πολιτικ?, δημ?σια μν?μη: 30 κε?μενα για τον Ζακ [Queer Politics, Public Memory; essays for Zak Kostopoulos, co-edited with Athena Athanasiou and Grigoris Gougousis] (Athens: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2020) [paperback and electronic open access]
New Queer Greece, special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4:2 (2018) [co-edited with Vassiliki Kolocotroni]
Κ?στας Ταχτσ?ς: Ποι?ματα [Costas Taktsis: Collected Poems, edited with notes and afterword] (Athens: Gavrielides, 2018; third edition Psichogios, 2021); reviews focusing on the editorial work here and here
Cavafy Pop, special issue of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 1:2 (2015) [co-edited with Eleni Papargyriou]
Contemporary Greek Cultures, special issue of Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 3:2 (2012) [co-edited with Lydia Papadimitriou and Dimitris Eleftheriotis]
Queering Migration on European Screen, special issue of New Cinemas, 6:3 (2008) [co-edited with Derek Duncan]
Articles in journals
(with Maria Boletsi) 'Greece and the Global South: Gestures of Spatial Disobedience', Journal of Greek Media and Culture 8:2 (2022), 129-141
(with Giorgos Sampatakakis) 'Η λογοκρισ?α ως πολιτισμικ? ιστορ?α: Το HIV/AIDS στην Ελλ?δα (1982-2000)' [Censorship as Cultural History: HIV/AIDS in Greece (1982-2000)], Αρχειοτ?ξιο 22 (2020), 163-182
"Θα πενθο?με π?ντα σαν παιδι?: Ρατσισμ?ς, ομοφοβ?α και θανατοπολιτικ?. Π?λι" [Like kids, we will keep mourning: Racism, homophobia, thanatopolitics; again], Feministiqa 2 (2019)
‘Critically queer and haunted: Greek identity, crisiscapes and doing queer history in the present’, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 4:2 (2018), 167-186
(with Vassiliki Kolocotroni) 'New Queer Greece: Performance, Politics, Identity', introduction to special issue, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 4:2 (2018), 143-150
(with Vassiliki Kolocotroni) ‘On the politics of queer resistance and survival: Athena Athanasiou in conversation with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Dimitris Papanikolaou’, Journal of Greek Media and Culture 4:2 (2018), 269-280
«Εικοσιδ?ο θ?σεις για την αναταραχ? αρχε?ου» [Twenty two points on Archive Trouble], in Χ?ρις Κανελλοπο?λου (ed.), Σ?γχρονη τ?χνη και αρχε?ο: Αρχειακ?ς συλλογ?ς, καλλιτεχνικ?ς πρακτικ?ς, προβληματισμο?, special issue of Κριτικ? + Τ?χνη v. 6, AICA, Αθ?να, 2016, 229-238; republished (abridged) in Penelope Petsine (ed.), Capitalist Realism, (Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press), 162-172
‘The pensive spectator, the possessive reader and the archive of queer feelings: A Reading of Constantine Giannaris’s Trojans’, Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 1:2 (2015), 279-297
(with Eleni Papargyriou) ‘Cavafy pop: Popular reception, cultural productivity and the many lives of poems’, introduction to 'Cavafy Pop', special issue of the Journal of Greek media and culture, 1: 2 (2015), 183-190
'Days of those made like me: retrospective pleasure, sexual knowledge, and C. P. Cavafy’s homobiographics', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 37:2 (2013), 261-277
'Modern Greek Studies at a Crossroads', Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture, 3:2 (2012), 117-122
«Η ν?α φ?σις του ?ρωτος»: Ο νεοτερικ?ς λ?γος της σεξολογ?ας και ο Καβ?φης’ [C.P.Cavafy and the modern discourses of sexology, ca.1900], Epistemonike Epeterida tes Philosophikes Scholes Thessalonikes, v.12 (2010), 195-211
'New Queer Greece? : Thinking Identity through Constantine Giannaris’s From the Edge of the City and Ana Kokkinos’s Head On', New Cinemas , 6:3 (2008), 183-196
(with Derek Duncan) 'Introduction: Queering Migration on European Screen', New Cinemas, 6:3 (2008), 163-166
'Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet (coming out) in England', Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 30:2 (2006), 213-235
'"Words that tell and hide": Revisiting C.P.Cavafy's Closets', Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 23 (2005), 235-260
'Greece as a Postmodern Example: Boundary 2 and its Special Issue on Greece', KAMPOS: Cambridge Papers in Modern Greek, 13 (2005), 127-145
‘Η τ?χνη της χειρονομ?ας: Ξαναδιαβ?ζοντας τα 18 Κειμενα’ [The art of gesturing: A new reading of the anti-dictatorship collection 18 Texts], Nea Estia, 1743 (March) (2002), 444 - 460
Chapters in books
(with Afroditi Nikolaidou), ‘Cinema Heritage as Archive of Feelings: Reflecting on Intangibility in Two Greek Cinema Projects’, in Eleftheria Kosmidou and Leslie McMurthy (eds), Intangible Cultural Heritage and New Methodological Frameworks (London: Routledge, 2025), 190-208
'Ghosting, Imagery, and Reconstruction: Or, What We Do Not Talk About When We Do Not Talk About Class in Greece', in Yiannis Mylonas and Elena Psyllakou (eds), Class, Culture and the Media in Greece (London: Palgrave Macmillian, 2024), vol.2, 255-265
«Εγκλεισμ?ς, βιοπολιτικ?ς ρεαλισμ?ς και ετεροτοπ?α» [Internment, biopolitical realism and heterotopia], in Dimitris Trikas et al. (eds), Εγκλεισμο?: Κε?μενα [Texts on interment] (Thessaloniki: Ropi, 2024), 355-381
'Literature and Greek Cinema', in Motherland, I See You: The 20th Century Greek Cinema / Χ?ρα σε βλ?πω: Ο εικοστ?ς αι?νας του ελληνικο? σινεμ? (Athens: Hellenic Film Academy and Nefeli publications, Greek and English versions, open access, 2022), 195-202 (en), 211-220 (gr)
(with Afroditi Nikolaidou) 'Re-Examining 20th c. Greek Cinema', in Motherland, I See You: The 20th Century Greek Cinema / Χ?ρα σε βλ?πω: Ο εικοστ?ς αι?νας του ελληνικο? σινεμ? (Athens: Hellenic Film Academy and Nefeli publications, Greek and English versions, open access, 2022), 11-28 (eng), 11-30 (gr)
«Χρ?νος, αορατ?τητα και αναταραχ? αρχε?ου: ?νας δι?λογος με τον Δημ?τρη Παπανικολ?ου» ["Time, invisibility, archive trouble; a dialogue with Dimitris Papanikolaou"; a conversation with therapists Ilias Gotsis and Anna Kiapoka, in Κρ?ση και μετασχηματισμο?: Δι?λογοι για το ν?ημα, την ψυχοθεραπε?α και τη ζω? [Crisis and transformation: Dialogues on meaning, therapy and life] (Athens: Armos, 2022)
'Queer Poetics, Citizenship and Hospitality in Panos H. Koutras's Xenia (2014)', in James S. Williams (ed.), Queering the Migrant in European Cinema (London: Routledge, 2020), 141-155 [open access]
‘Greek Weird Wave, or on How to Do a Cinema of Biopolitics’, in Maria Boletsi, Janna Houwen, Liesbeth Minnaard (eds), Languages of Resistance, Transformation, and Futurity in Mediterranean Crisis-Scapes: From Crisis to Critique (London: Macmillan, 2020), 209-230
(with Athena Athanasiou) «’ ‘Πες το ?νομ? της’: Η κου?ρ πολιτικ? ως κριτικ? του παρ?ντος» [‘“Say her name: Queer memory as a critique of the present’], in Κου?ρ πολιτικ?, δημ?σια μν?μη: 30 κε?μενα για τον Ζακ [Queer Politics, Public Memory; essays for Zak Kostopoulos] (Athens: Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, 2020), 9-27
«Η λογοκρισ?α της ομοφυλοφιλ?ας στον μακρ? εικοστ? αι?να» [‘Censorship and homosexuality in the long 20th century], in Penelope Petsinis and Dimitris Christopoulos (eds), Λεξικ? λογοκρισ?ας στην Ελλ?δα [Dictionary of Censorship in Greece] (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2018), 206-220
«Πεθα?νει ρε ο Συγγραφ?ας; Μεταμοντερνισμ?ς, πολιτισμικ? πολιτικ? και ελληνικ?ς κριτικ?ς αγκυλ?σεις» [Does the Author die, mate? Postmodernism, cultural politics and Greek critical fixations], in Ourania Kaiafa (ed.), Η πρ?σληψη των μετανεωτερικ?ν ιδε?ν στην Ελλ?δα [The reception of postmodern ideas in Greece] Moraitis Educational Institute, Athens, 2018, 29-50
«Πεθα?νω σα χ?ρα. Τ?σα χρ?νια μετ?» [I die as a country: a reappraisal], in Ourania Kaiafa (ed.), Τομ?ς, ρ?ξεις και αδρ?νειες στην μεταπολεμικ? Ελλ?δα [Continuity and change in postwar Greece], (Athens: Moraitis Educational Institute, 2016), 205-226
«Λογοδοτ?ντας για τον εαυτ? στον καιρ? του ?ντερνετ» [Giving an account of oneself in the era of social networks], in Ourania Kaiafa (ed.), Προς ?ναν ν?ο τ?πο κοινωνικο? ανθρ?που; [Towards new types of social relations?] (Athens: Moraitis Educational Institute, 2015), 29-50
'Mapping/Unmapping: The Making of Queer Athens’, in Jennifer V. Evans and Matt Cook (eds), Queer Cities, Queer Cultures: Europe post 1945, (London: Continuum, 2014), 151-170
«?ταν χ?θηκε η ?νω τελε?α· Η μελοποιημ?νη πο?ηση στη δεκαετ?α του '60» [Greek poetry set to music in the 1960s], in Angela Kastrinake et al. (eds), Για μια ιστορ?α της ελληνικ?ς λογοτεχν?ας του εικοστο? αι?να [Towards a history of Greek literature of the 20th century] (Heracleion: Crete University Press, 2012), 305-325
"Κ?νοντας κ?τι παρ?δοξες κιν?σεις": Ο πολιτισμ?ς στα χρ?νια της Δικτατορ?ας' [Culture under the Greek Dictatorship, 1967-1974], in Vangelis Karamanolakis (ed.), I stratiotiki diktatoria 1967-1974 (Athens: Ta Nea, 2010), 175-196. A shorter version published in the newspaper Ta Nea, see here and here; republished in the programme notes for the theatre performance of Pericles Korovesis's The Method, Art Theatre Athens, dir. Manos Vavadakis, 2019
'Στρ?λλα: Μια ταιν?α για ?λη την οικογ?νεια' [Introductory essay on the film Strella: A Woman's Way, published with the screenplay and an interview with the director and writer], Strella (Athens: Polychromos Planetes, 2010), 9-24. Review
‘«Αφεντικ?, ?νθρωπο δεν αγ?πησα σαν κι εσ?να»: Ο Αλ?ξης Ζορμπ?ς και η ποιητικ? της ομοκοινωνικ?τητας’ [Zorba the Greek and the poetics of homosociality], in S. Philippides (ed.), Ho Kazantzakes ston 21o aiona (Heracleion: Crete University Press, 2010), 435-475
'Repatriation on Screen: Cinema, National Culture and the Immigrant Other since the 1990s', in Dimitris Tziovas (ed.)', Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 (Ashgate: Aldershot, 2009), 257-272
'Δ?κα χρ?νια κομμ?τια: Τα ρ?στα, ο Ταχτσ?ς και η εποχ? τους' [essay on K.Taktsis's short story cycle Small Change, published with the new edition of the book], in Costas Taktsis, Ta Resta (Athens: Gavrielides, 2009), 172-189; a shorter version published in newspaper Ta Nea, see here and here; translated in Italian as the afterword to Kostas Tachtsis, Il resto, a cura di Francesca Zaccone (Nardo: besa muci, 2019), 143-158
‘Εθνικ? κουλτο?ρα, πολιτισμικ? ιδιαιτερ?τητα και πεζ? μοναδικ?τητα’ [National culture, cultural specificity and banal exceptionalism], in Dimitris Plantzos (ed.), Pagkosmiopoiese kai ethnike koultoura [Globalization and National Culture] (Athens: Alexandreia, 2009), 138-158; a shorter version in English published here
'Between Philhellenism and Greek Eros: Reading Christopher Isherwood's and William Plomer's "Greece"', in Evangelos Konstantinou (ed.), Das Bild Griechenlands im Spiegel der Völker (17. bis 20. Jahrhundert) (Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008), 421-432
'Οι μεταμορφ?σεις του Ζορμπ?' [Zorba and popular music], in N. Psychogios (ed.), Nikos Kazantzakis: To ergo kai he proslepse tou (Herakleion: Centre for Cretan Literature, 2006), 91-108
Ξαναδιαβ?ζοντας τον ελληνικ? κ?σμο του Διον?ση Σαββ?πουλου' [Dionysis Savvopoulos's "Hellenic world"], Third European Conference on Modern Greek Studies, print version in The Greek World From Enlightenment to the 20th century, ed. K. Dimadis (Athens: Ellenika Grammata, 2006), v. III, 647-656
‘Το νησ? ως ουτοπ?α, δυστοπ?α, μ?θος και γραφ? στον Λοιμ? του Αντρ?α Φραγκι?’ [Utopia, dystopia, myth and writing in A. Fragias's Loimos], in Asterios Argyriou (ed.), Greece of the Islands: Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of the European Society of Modern Greek Studies (Athens: Ellenika Grammata, 2004), vol. I, 629-639
Shorter articles and review essays (selected)
'ArcHIVing: Scenes in Process', Octopus, the EMST Magazine, issue 1, special issue on the Cultural Memory of HIV-AIDS, ed. by Juliet Jacques (Greek National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, December 2024); version transl. into Greek: 'ΑρχεΙΟ-πο?ηση'
'Η πα?λα που ουρλι?ζει. ? αλλι?ς: η Οικογ?νεια-Θ?ατρο' [A howling dash; The family-theatre], Vlavi 6 (December 2024), 44-49
'Inflatable digs, Mouldable Materials, Malleable Bodies. René Habermacher’s un-mutilating of the Herms', in René Habermacher, New Digs (exhibition catalogue; Athens, 2024), 49-61
'National Troubadour, Guru and Soulmate', Introduction in Dionysis Savvopoulos, The Rock Song of Our Tomorrow (Athens: Aiora Press, 2024), 11-16
'Aligning with Archetypes: The Universe of Dimitris Papaioannou', Dimitris Papaioannou in conversation with Dimitris Papanikolaou, DUST 24 (January 2024); translated into Greek and published in Lifo, 1/2/2024
'Queer/ Archive/ Cinema', in Citizen Queer (Non Catalog, 26th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, 2024), 52-61 (gr), 62-71 (eng)
"Ο Δημ?τρης στην ακτ?" ['Dimitris on the beach'; essay on choreographer/director Dimitris Papaioannou], special issue of Proto Plano, n. 313, March 2024, 52-63; republ. as a blogpost
'"?να ε?δος μυστικο? Θεο?"', αν?κδοτο χειρ?γραφο του Κ?στα Ταχτσ? παρουσιασμ?νο απ? τον Δημ?τρη Παπανικολαου' ['Like a hidden god; an unpublished manuscript by Kostas Taktsis, presented and with a commentary by D.P.], Vlavi 3 (December 2023), 25-28 (T's text), 29-33 (commentary)
(with Kristina Gedgaudaite and Theophilos Tramboulis), 'Acts of Citizenship in Present Day Greece', Journal of Greek Media and Culture 9:2 (2023), 211-228; an extract published as a blogpost
'In the World of Double Haunting: Watching Mati Diop's Atlantiques', in Fantasmes (Thessaloniki International Film Festival, 2023), 52-61 (eng) and 54-65 (gr)
'Αναπαρ?σταση, επαν?ρθωση, παρρησ?α: Στα κουκλ?σπιτα του Μ?ριο Μπανο?σι'/ 'Re-enactment, reparation and parrhesia: In the Dollhouses of Mario Banushi', essay on Banushi's autobiographical performances, commissioned by the Greek National Theatre to accompany the Greek and world tour of his Goodbye Lindita; published as the opening essay in the programme notes, 8-11 (gr), 12-15 (eng)
'Π?ς φα?νονται τ?ρα' ['How they look now']; essay on Mihalis Paraskakis's opera Strella (world premiere February 2023); commissioned by the Greek National Opera, published in the programme notes, 33-37
'An Ongoing Performance, an Unfinishing Revolution: Archive Trouble, 1821-2021', essay commissioned by the Athens/Epidaurus Festival for their 2021 Catalogue, 102-113 (English edition) and 92-103 (Greek edition)
'Entre Brassens et Théodorakis: Résonances musicales, identité culturelle et chansons des années 1960', in Vassiliki Mavroeidakou-Castellana, Christophe Corbier and Panagiota Anagnostou (eds), Le Voyage des musiciens: Un siècle d'échanges franco-grecs en musique (1917-2021), Paris: In Fine, 2021, 138-145
'Cinema as a Collective and Political Art: Crossing "The Lost Highway of Greek Cinema"', Journal of Greek Media and Culture 7:1 (2021), 105-112
(with Maria Boletsi, Joost de Bloois, Cornelia Gräbner, Janna Houwen, and Georgios Tsagdis) 'Grammars of Crisis', in Maria Boletsi, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Kasia Mika and Ksenia Robbe (eds), (Un)Timely Crises: Chronotopes and Critique, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, 23-49
(with Maria Boletsi) 'Why rethink Modern Greek Studies today: Notes from the front of cultural analysis', position blogpost on the rationale for the Oxford/Amsterdam project Rethinking Modern Greek Studies in the 21st century. All content has now been move to Greek Studies Now, see here and here
'Un Overdose d' amore' (essay on Greek cinema and the financial crisis), in Grecia, special issue of The Passenger, Milan: Iperborea, 2019, 110-124; English translation published in The Passenger: Greece, New York: Europa, 2020; Spanish translation forthcoming
"There is something about the family" (programme notes), in Maria Komnninos and Ioulia Mermigka (eds), 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival Catalogue, Athens: Greek Film Archive, 2019, 80-87
‘How metonymical are you? Notes on biopolitical realism’, in Orestis Andreadakis and Geli Mademli (eds) Non Catalog, Thessaloniki: Documentary Film Festival, 2019, 104-125
'Η οικογ?νεια-θ?ατρο' [The family-theatre], In Eleni Koutsilaiou (ed.), Η δυναμικ? του ελληνικο? λ?γου στο θ?ατρο [The dynamics of Greek discourse in theatre], Piraeus Theatre Festival Anniversary Edition, 2019, 83-91
‘C. P. Cavafy’, in Howard Chiang, et al. (eds), Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History, New York: Macmillan, 2018, 305-310
"Δ?κα λ?ξεις για τον Κ?στα Ταχτσ?" [Ten words on Kostas Taktsis], Kathimerini, 20/8/2018; republished widely, most creatively in bibliotheque, 8/10/2018
'Γυρ?ζοντας (απ?) π?σω: Ο Ιω?ννου και ο Λαπαθι?της στο αρχε?ο των συναισθημ?των' [Ioannou and Lapathiotis in the archive of feelings], first published in the programme notes for the performance Lapathiotis by avantgarde group Bijoux de Kant and republished in Chronos, v. 56-57 (January 2018)
‘Archive Trouble, 2017’, in Kateryna Botanova, Christos Chryssopoulos and Jurriaan Cooiman (eds) Culturescapes: Archaeology of the Future (Basel: Cristoph Merian Verlag, 2017), 38-52; republished (abridged) in Penelope Petsine (ed.), Capitalist Realism, (Thessaloniki: University of Macedonia Press), 2018, 163-173
«Καθ?ς τους βλ?πω να κοιμο?νται»/ ‘As I watch them sleep’, in Theofilos Tramboulis and Yorgos Tzirtzilakis (eds), Sleep (exhibition catalogue), (Athens: Onassis Cultural Foundation, 2016), 58-63 (engl) and 66-71 (greek)
‘Athens is Burning’, in Anna Poupou, Afroditi Nikolaidou and Eirini Sifaki (eds), World Film Locations: Athens, (London: Intellect, 2014), 28-29
‘H απ?φαση της λησμονι?ς: το ΑΚΟΕ, τα μεταδικτατορικ? κιν?ματα και η αφασ?α της δημ?σιας σφα?ρας’, in Αρχειοτ?ξιο, v. 15 (2013), 84-87
'Archive Trouble: Cultural Responses to the Greek Crisis', in Penelope Papailias (ed.), Beyond the Greek Crisis: Histories, Rhetorics, Politics; Web Hotspot published by the journal Cultural Anthropology, October 2011
'Ο Κακογι?ννης, ο Ζορμπ?ς κι ο ?λληνας' [Cacoyannis, Zorba and the Greek], The Books' Journal, v. 11 (September 2011), 58-61; a version in English presented here; an updated version published in Yannis Voulgaris et al. (eds), "Σαν παλι? σινεμ?": Το σεν?ριο του ελληνικο? κινηματογρ?φου [The script of Greek cinema], To Vima, special supplement (4/2/24), 87-102
'Ηλ?ας Πετρ?πουλος: Ομιλε?τε την Καλιαρντ?ν;'[Do you speak Kaliarda? Elias Petropoulos and the the study of Greek subcultures], The Books' Journal, v. 7 (May 2011), 62-69
'Ο Καβ?φης στον 21ο αι?να' [Cavafy in the 21st century; position article on the implications of new research on Cavafy], The Books' Journal, v. 4 (February 2011), 41-49
'Κ?τι τρ?χει με την Οικογ?νεια' [Greek family, representation and the new crisis archive], The Books' Journal, v. 1 (November 2010), 96-98
‘Γι?ννης Τσαρο?χης: Το μυστικ? της ελληνικ?τητας’ [Yannis Tsarouchis and the poetics of homosociality], The Athens Review of Books, v. 5 (March 2010), 3-6
'Για τη Θεωρ?α, που μας μεγ?λωσε' [Literary Theory: A personal narrative], in Kostas Voulgaris (ed.), Logotechnia, Theoria, Aristera (Perasma: Athens, 2008), 160-165
(with Derek Duncan) ‘Popular Culture’ [covering books published in 2005 and 2006], in Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory v. 16, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 302-324
'‘From the Darkrooms of Philology’, Position article on Cavafy and Sexuality; part of the 'University of Michigan C.P.Cavafy Forum', (2006)
(with Derek Duncan), 'Popular Culture’ [covering books published in 2004] ', Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory v. 14, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 152-172
'Cinema as a Political Act: The art of Costa-Gavras and Theo Angelopoulos ', The Anglo-Hellenic Review, 29 (Spring 2004), 11
'Setting Seferis' poetry to music', George Seferis: Centenary Celebrations (Hellenic Foundation for Culture, 2000), 7 - 12
Translation
Mark Doty, 'To Cavafy and other poems', Poiese, v. 24 (December 2004)
Public Speaking and Conferences Organised
(since 2014; selected)
Nico Papatakis Season, introduction to the series of screenings and Q+A, The Garden Cinema, London, 19/3/2026
Introduction to Iphigenia (dir. Cacoyannis, 1977), Blue-ray re-release special feature (25 mins), Radiance Films, 2026
Manos Hadjidakis: musique, culture et politique, international conference (co-organiser with Theodora Psychoyou), Sorbonne University and Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (IREMUS), 21-22/11/2025, see a review with video extracts in this blogpost, a personal reflection here, and a thorough review here
Introduction to The Ogre of Athens (dir. Koundouros, 1956), Blue-ray re-release special feature (26 mins), Radiance Films, 2025
Formidable Persistence (curator), a series of public lectures and roundtables, Athens Epidaurus Festival, June-July 2025; see a curatorial reflection in Greek here and in English here, and a review here
Strella, Screening introduction and Q+A with director Panos Koutras, The Garden Cinema, London, 2/3/2025
Queer/Archive/Citizenship: A Modern Greek History, public lecture, New York University (NYU), 23/10/2024
Future Perfect? (curator), a series of public lectures and roundtables, Athens Epidaurus Festival, June-July 2024
'Care/ hauntology/ archaeology : Biopolitical realism and the future of memory' (keynote lecture) in Who Cares About the Future? Exploring the Role of Film, Theatre, and Television in a “Post-Pandemic” Era of Crisis, University of Reading, Department of Film, Theatre and Television, 15 June 2023
'Contagious Weirdness', keynote lecture at the Weirdness Salon, East 15 Acting School, University of Essex, 3 June 2023
Mediterranean Europe and/as Global South (co-organiser), three-day seminar at the American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) Annual Meeting, Chicago, 17-19 March 2023
Being Citizens Together: Rethinking Social Citizenship in Greece (co-organiser with Theophilos Tramboulis), National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 11 February 2023; see a review of the event here
Whatever happened to the Weird Wave?: Dimitris Papanikolaou in conversation with Manolis Kranakis and Geli Mademli, Thessaloniki Film Festival, MOMUs Thessaloniki, 9 November 2022
Book at lunchtime: Greek Weird Wave - A Cinema of Biopolitics, TORCH/University of Oxford, 27 October 2021
Invited lecture and public discussion on There is something about the Greek family and its continuing relevance, 1st Festival of Queer Approaches, Xanthi 2021, 26 September 2021
'Under-represented voices in literature' (pannelist), Turl Street Arts Festival, 3 May 2021
'Remaining critically queer; and being haunted' (closing lecture), Queer Epistemicides, University of St Andrews, 29-30 April 2021
'From Crisis to Critique' (participant), OSL/LUCAS Workshop, Leiden University, 4-5 March 2021
(Hi)stories of sexuality (participant), 14 December 2020, webinar roundtable discussion organized by Themelio publishers, on zoom and archived here
'Remembered for what we are about to do: Haunting and haunted at a time of biopolitical realism', University of Reading - FTT Seminar Series, 9 December 2020
Sexuality/ Family (participant), webinar roundtable discussion organized by Συνηχ?σεις - Centre for therapy and education, 7 December 2020, archived here
Modern Greek Studies and Beyond: Local Cases, Global Debates (co-convener), a series of roundtable webinars for 2020-2021. Also archived at Greek Studies Now
The Politics of Comradeship: Organising/Resisting (co-convener with Athena Athanasiou), third panel and public discussion of the project Queer Politics/ Public Memory, Booze Cooperativa, Athens, 26 February 2020
Modern Greek Studies in the 21st century: Perspectives and practices in cultural analysis. Conference co-convened with Prof. Maria Boletsi (Amsterdam), Oxford, 31 January- 1 February 2020
Bodies provoking, bodies demanding: Is public space equally public for all ? (co-convener with Athena Athanasiou), second pannel and public discussion of the project Queer Politics/ Public Memory, Romantzo, Athens, 15 December 2019
A Greek archive of HIV/AIDS: For a cultural and social history. Open discussion, part of the project HIV/AIDS in Greece: A political archive , Athens, Romantzo, 1 December 2019
'How indexical are you? How metonymical are we?: Images at a time of biopolitical realism', Images/ Politics/ Public Space, University of Thessaly (Volos), 22-23 November 2019
There is Something About the Family (curator/presenter). A screenings and public discussions programme based on the 2018 book of the same title, curated after the invitation of the Greek Film Archive for the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, 21-30 November 2019
'Past continuous, archival present, queer future: Rethinking our critical grammars' (keynote lecture), Untimely Crises in Europe and Beyond: Chronotope and Critique, University of Amsterdam, 17 October 2019
'From type-people to time-people. C.P.Cavafy's ethical citizenship', Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2 October 2019
Memory, (public) feeling, mobilization (co-convener with Athena Athanasiou), first panel and public discussion of the project Queer Politics/ Public Memory, Association of Greek Archaeologists (SEA), Athens, 26 September 2019
Why we (do not) talk about our history. Open discussion, part of the project HIV/AIDS in Greece: A political archive , Athens, Romantzo 19 September 2019
In conversation with Edouard Louis, Public Cafe, Syntagma, 10 September 2019
'Is There a Greek Queer Culture', in Queer.gr Symposium, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, 26 June 2019
Presentation of New Queer Greece special issue and discussion at the feminist collective Beaver, 05 June 2019
'Dancing on the Ruins of Modernism', Urban Crisis-Scapes: On Walks and Ruins Workshop, Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA), Amsterdam, 16-17 May 2019
How to do a Cinema of Biopolitics: Notes on the “Greek Weird Wave”, Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR), University of Amsterdam, 15 May 2019
Five presentations at the Thessaloniki International Book Fair 2019 (invited as keynote speaker), 09-12 May 2019
'There is Something About the Greek Family', open lecture at the University of Rome, La Sapienza, 22 February 2019
Roundtable and discussion on family, gender and sexuality organized by the gender-activist group Kiouria, 21 January 2019
‘La Biopolitique à l’ écran: La Nouvelle vague du cinema grecque’, invited lecture at the University of Geneva, 3 December 2018
'The Contours of Metonymy', lecture given as part of the exhibition Capitalist Realism, Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018, Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, 24 November 2018
“There is Something about the Family” book’s main presentation in Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki Megaron Concert Hall, 22 November 2018
“There is something about the family” book’s main presentation in Athens, Ianos bookstore, 06 November 2018
'Racism, homophobia, necropolitics; again', followed by an open discussion and debate organized by the NGO “Positive voice", Polis Art Cafe bookshop, Athens, 01 November 2018
Presentation and open discussion organized by Feminist Collective Beaver, Athens, 23 October 2018
“Critically Queer and Haunted: On How (not) to Do the History of Greek Homosexuality”, British School at Athens, 22 October 2018
An open discussion organized by the Enthemata collective in Sputnik, Athens, 03 September 2018
A discussion with Cultural Studies Collective Skra Punk, Athens, 12 July 2018
Costas Taktsis' "Poems" book presentation, Poems 'n Crimes Cafe, Gavriilidis Publishers, 10 July 2018
International Cavafy Summer School (co-convened with Prof. Guthenke of Oxford University, July 2018)
Lecture on Cavafy and time (Αναζητ?ντας τη δι?ρκεια: ο πολιτικ?ς Καβ?φης και ο χρ?νος της επιθυμ?ας), Alexandria, Egypt, 15 October 2017
International Cavafy Summer School (co-convened with Prof. Gourgouris of Columbia University, July 2017)
The Greek Weird Wave and the Cinema of Biopolitics, The American Comparative Literature Association's 2017 Annual Meeting, University of Utrecht, 6-9 July 2017
New Queer Greece, conference co-convened with Prof. Vassiliki Kolocotroni (University of Glasgow), under the auspices of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 10 June 2017
The Birth of Tradition, lecture pannel shared with Cathy Gere as part of the Studio 14 series, Documenta 14, 14 May 2017, Athens
A Political History of Dance and Electronic Music: The Invention of Queer Culture (convenor), panel discussion, Documenta 14 public programmes, 7 May 2017, Athens Conservatoire (Odeion), Athens
"Για ?ναν ελληνικ? κινηματογρ?φο της βιοπολιτικ?ς" [a Greek cinema of biopolitics] in Greek short-films and the crisis, 24 April 2017, Parko Eleftherias, Athens
'Wet Communities, Liquid People', paper delivered at the conference Fluid Physicalities, Birkbeck College, 10 March 2017
'Letter to Georges', introduction to Georges Didi-Huberman's lecture 'How is Courage inherited?' in the Athens Megaron, 28 February 2017
“Dates, Time and Times of the Archive” («Οι ημερομην?ες, ο χρ?νος και οι χρ?νοι του αρχε?ου»), public lecture in the Onassis Library, 24 November 2016
“Why Greece: Politics, Institutions and Challenges” (convenor), Roundtable discussion in the Moscow International Book Fair, 07 September 2016
Still returning to Cavafy's Alexandria (in GR and in ENG), public debate at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 15 May 2016
Body: Sleep, Death, Resurrection (convenor), public debate at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 09 May 2016
Body and Gender (convenor), public debate at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 04 March 2016
Body and Public Space (Σ?μα και δημ?σιος χ?ρος) (convenor), roundtable at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 20 October 2015
There is Something About the Greek Family (Κ?τι τρ?χει με την ελληνικ? οικογ?νεια) (convenor), roundtable at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 28 April 2015
The History of Pain (in GR and in ENG), roundtable at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 03 February 2015
There is Something about the Family: National Allegory, Desire and Kinship in a Time of Crisis, delivered as part of the workshop The Economic and the Political: Locating the Greek Crisis within History and Anthropology, University of Durham, 05 December 2014
New Queer Greece?, keynote lecture in the event Enjoy (y)our State of Emergency: Art and Activist Strategies in Times of Crisis, nGbK Gallery, Berlin, 03 December 2014
Archive Policy and National Culture (Αρχειακ? πολιτικ? και εθνικ? κουλτο?ρα), Onassis Cultural Centre, 01 December 2014
Cavafy: Sexuality, Politics, and Literature (Καβ?φης: Σεξουαλικ?τητα, πολιτικ? και λογοτεχν?α), pannel in the Onassis Cultural Centre, 30 September 2014
Between the Family and the Nation: The post-Metapolitefsi Greek Public Sphere, delivered as part of the conference Greece: From Junta to Crisis, co-organised with Dimitris Tziovas. Hellenic Centre, London, 20 September 2014
'Memory and Literature', part of the interdisciplinary roundtable The Paths of Memory, organized by the Brain Awareness Week, Athens Megaron, 11 March 2014
The Erotic Cavafy (Ο ερωτικ?ς Καβ?φης), public seminar, Onassis Cultural Centre, 15 February 2014
The Erotic Cavafy (Ο ερωτικ?ς Καβ?φης) (convenor), panel in the Onassis Cultural Centre, 28 January 2014
Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Dimitris Papanikolaou, Onassis Cultural Centre, 21 January 2014
Media Coverage
(since 2014; selected)
'Χατζιδ?κις: ?ρα Σορβ?ννης' (Manos Hadjidakis at the Sorbonne), an indicative example of the extensive media coverage for the Conference Manos Hadjidakis: musique, culture et politique, Efimerida ton Sintakton, 7/12/2025
Crashkurs Weltkino: Greek Weird Wave; interview on SRKultur (German Radio) for their Introduction to World Cinema series, 27/10/2025
Η σκληρ? αλ?θεια για τον Κ?στα Ταχτσ?, Σκληρ?ς Αλ?θειες (Greece's most popular podcast), episode on Costas Taktsis, main interviewee and academic reference, August 2025
'Η Θαυμ?σια επιμον?: Δημ?σιες συναντ?σεις με τον Δημ?τρη Παπανικολ?ου στο Φεστιβ?λ Αθην?ν'. Review of the public programme Formidable Persistence at the Athens Epidaurus Festival, Bookpress, 29/7/2025
Ο Δημ?τρης Παπανικολ?ου, το πρωτοποριακ? καβαφικ? του ?ργο, η queer θεωρ?α και το Greek Weird Wave, a print and hour-long radio interview with Eliana Nunes on Papanikolaou's research and its intersections with contemporary debates, on the Greek national radio's special programme Greeks of the World
'Interrogating Biopolitical Realism: An Interview with Dimitris Papanikolaou on the Greek Weird Wave', an interview with Kemari Bryant, Film Club 3000, issue 3, Jan/Feb 2024, 1-9
'Βιοπολιτικ? & κου?ρ θεωρ?α και πρακτικ?. Συν?ντευξη ΕΝΑ με τον Δημ?τρη Παπανικολ?ου' [Biopolitics and queer theory in practice; interview with ENA: Institute for Alternative Policies], Athens, 23/2/2024
"μ?πως ε?σθε ομοφυλ?φιλος;": Η συν?ντηση του Κ?στα Ταχτσ? με τον Γι?ργο Ιω?ννου και η πολιτικ? σημασ?α του κου?ρ αρχε?ου [The political importance of queer archives], editor Despoina Zefkili reports on Papanikolaou's publication of previously unknown material Kostas Taktsis; Athinorama 23/1/2024
«Ζο?με ?λοι μεταξ? του cloud και της πραγματικ?τητας», ['We all live between reality and the cloud'; interview in newspaper Ta Nea with an overview of past and forthcoming work], 16/1/2024
«Βλ?πω κινηματικ?ς δρ?σεις που με εμπν?ουν διαρκ?ς» ['I am constantly inspired by activist work']; interview with newspaper Epohi, 7/1/2024
Bookfly: Χ?ρα σε βλ?πω, an hour's interview on the volume Motherland: I See You, Greek National Radio (ERA 3), interview with Dimitris Trikas, 1/2/2023
«Το μεγ?λο come back του Κ?στα Ταχτσ?» ['The come-back of Costas Taktsis'; a long interview on the new editions of Taktsis's works], Efimerida ton syntakton, 30/10/2021
'The Greek Weird Wave Cinema and its Biopolitical Realism'; podcast interview with Yannis-Orestis Papadimitriou, for his Archipelago series
«Οι κοινωνικο? αποκλεισμο? ε?ναι αιμορραγ?α ιστορ?ας» ['Social exclusions are a bleeding (of) history', lengthy report of the lecture/public discussion in Xanthi's Festival of Queer Approaches], Empros (main local newspaper of Xanthi), 28/9/2021
«?να συναρπαστικ? ταξ?δι στον χωρ?χρονο ?χι μ?νο μιας κινηματογραφ?ας, αλλ? και μιας ολ?κληρης χ?ρας» ['A fascinating journey through a national cinema and a country: Interview with the curators of the programme "Motherland, I see you"]', elculture, 10/9/2021
'Greek Studies Now: A Cultural Analysis Network to rethink cultural narratives', Greek News Agenda, 15/4/2021
«Απ? τον Καζαντζ?κη στον Λ?νθιμο» ['From Kazantzakis to Lanthimos', interview on Greek Studies Now], Kathimerini, 3/4/2021
'Short-circuit-in-families, queer genealogies, public truth telling and archive troubles. Dimitris Papanikolaou in conversation with Giorgos Kesisoglou', Metalogos: Systemic Therapy Journal, 36 (2020)
Q&A, Δημ?τρης Παπανικολ?ου [for the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival]
"10o Φεστιβ?λ πρωτοποριακο? κινηματογρ?φου: Κ?τι τρ?χει με την οικογ?νεια" [article by the Greek Press Agency on the programme There is Something About the Family, presented by the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, in the Greek Film Archive,
«Ο Δημ?τρης Παπανικολ?ου ξ?ρει τι εν?νει την "οικογ?νεια" με την ποπ κουλτο?ρα της κρ?σης» [interview with the main Greek cinema website, on the programme There is Something About the Family, presented by the 10th Athens Avant Garde Film Festival, in the Greek Film Archive], flix, 22/11/2019
«"Δεν γενν?θηκα διαφορετικ?ς, ?γινα" Το Left.gr στη συζ?τηση με τον Εντου?ρ Λου?» [article on Edouard Louis' first public presentation in Greece], Left.gr, 11/9/2019
«O Ζακ, σαν κομ?της, ?ριξε φως σ’ αυτο?ς που ζουν στο σκοτ?δι», Efimerida ton syntakton, 20/ 9/ 2019; a presentation of the first meeting of the project HIV in Greece: A political archive.
FACTORY. Ιδ?ες/Τ?χνες, ERT Three Radio Programme, one hour radio interview, first broadcast 21 July 2019
«Η αγ?α ελληνικ? οικογ?νεια ε?ναι ?να τρα?μα», Andro, 28 February 2019
«Οικογ?νεια ε?ναι οι δεσμο? για τους οπο?ους επιμ?νουμε», Kathimerini, 28 January 2019
«Η "αγ?α ελληνικ? οικογ?νεια" δεν ε?ναι μ?νο... ζ?νη ασφαλε?ας», Karfitsa, 30 November 2018
Κ?τι τρ?χει με την οικογ?νεια, Sto Kokkino 105.5 FM discussion with Vangelis Karamanolakis, 25 November 2018
«Η... αγ?α ελληνικ? οικογ?νεια ?χει πρ?βλημα!», Efimerida ton Syntakton, 11 November 2018
5+1 ερωτ?σεις για την «οικογ?νεια», Ta Nea, 26 October 2018
Υλικ? ονε?ρων, public reading of "There is Something about the Family" on ERT radio, 17 October 2018
Rethinking Greece: Dimitris Papanikolaou on Greek exceptionalism and the "Holy Greek family”, Greek News Agenda, 13 September 2018; republished in Greek-Australian newspaper Neos Kosmos; a long extract translated into Greek and published in the social studies journal Syghrona Themata, v. 142, November 2018, 218-222.
Συζητ?ντας με τον Δημ?τρη Παπανικολ?ου για την ”αγ?α ελληνικ? οικογ?νεια”, την κρ?ση και το identity politics [A discussion with Dimitris Papanikolaou on family, the crisis, and identity politics], Skra-punk, 12 September 2018
Αντ? στ?φανου, contribution to radio documentary on Kostas Taktsis, first aired on ERT1 on 01 September 2018
Αυτο? που τ?λμησαν: Κωνσταντ?νος Καβ?φης, contribution to documentary film on C. P. Cavafy first aired on Cosmote TV on 05 June 2017
Εποχ?ς και Συγγραφε?ς: Κ?στας Ταχτσ?ς, contribution to documentary film on Kostas Tachtsis first aired on ERT2 on 03 December 2017
Η μηχαν? του χρ?νου: Κωνσταντ?νος Καβ?φης, contribution to documentary on C.P.Cavafy, first broadcast on ERT TV, 18 January 2015
Πο?ηση, ομοφυλοφιλ?α, ομοφοβ?α και πολιτικ?, I Avgi, 21 September 2014
Ο εξεγερμ?νος ερωτικ?ς: «...και μετ? βρ?κα τον Καβ?φη», BHmagazino, 27 July 2014
Ερωτικ? του Καβ?φη, μια ?λλη αν?γνωση, Kathimerini, 28 June 2014
Μια δ?σκολη συζ?τηση για τον Καβ?φη, Ta Nea, 13 August 2014
Η ελευθερ?α, η αποσι?πηση και η λ?θη, Ta Nea, 28 June 2014
Ο ερωτικ?ς Καβ?φης ε?ναι, ταυτ?χρονα, ?νας εξεγερμ?νος Καβ?φης, Lifo, 3 July 2014
Ο Καβ?φης δεν ε?ναι ακτιβιστ?ς αλλ? σε μαθα?νει να διεκδικε?ς, Efimerida ton Syntakton, 20 June 2014
Μπορο?με να λ?με gay τον Καβ?φη;, Athens Voice, 29 May 2014