Dr Vassiliki Kolocotroni
- Senior Lecturer (English Literature)
telephone: 01413305697
email: Vassiliki.Kolocotroni@glasgow.ac.uk
Research and Teaching
- Modernism and the avant-garde
- Theory
- Word and image
- Hellenism
- Surrealism
- Translation
- Film
Vassiliki Kolocotroni’s main research interests lie in the areas of modernism, theory, intermedial studies, and translation. She has co-edited Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh and Chicago UP 1998) , an influential and widely-used resource, soon to be complemented by a Dictionary of Modernism, which she is compiling for Edinburgh UP with Olga Taxidou. She is also one of the Subject Editors of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. In recent years, Vassiliki has studied the work of the Greek-American Surrealist poet and art historian Nicolas Calas and has co-edited and translated Calas’s French poetry and his correspondence with William Carlos Williams (Ypsilon Books 2002). She has also co-edited (with Efterpi Mitsi) In the Country of the Moon, an anthology of writings by British women travellers in Greece from 1718-1932 (Hestia Publishers 2005), and Women Writing Greece, a collection of critical essays on gender, Hellenism and Orientalism (Rodopi 2008). These projects reflect her special interest in the subject of Hellenism and more specifically its uses by modern writers and thinkers, which is the focus of her next book. In preparation for that study, she has published articles on Freud, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, H.D., Heidegger, Derrida and their encounters with classical and modern Greece. She has also written on film, on the work of Julia Kristeva (including an interview with the theorist that originally appeared in Textual Practice and is now anthologised in a Columbia UP collection), and on modern motifs in Pater and Baudelaire.
Vassiliki convenes the MLitt in Modernities and supervises a range of doctoral projects, including theses on Hope Mirrlees and Jane Ellen Harrison, Alain Badiou's writings on poetry, the modern Irish novel of formation, Borges's translations of Kafka and Woolf, Benjamin Fondane and existentialism, David Foster Wallace, T. S. Eliot and Jung, and the role of public art in narratives of nationalism and reconciliation (for the London Consortium).
Completed projects supervised by Vassiliki include theses on T. S. Eliot's philosophical poetics (Fabio Vericat); cult fiction (Joe McAvoy); the British literary manifesto (Julian Hanna); late 19th-century British women travellers in Greece (Churnjeet Mahn); political performance art in 1970s California (Sarah Lowndes); women writers of the Beat generation (Katie Stewart); creolization in Caribbean writing (Lorna Burns); the cyborg in fiction and art (Warren Steele); encounters between modern Greek and English poetry (Konstantina Georganta); Nicolas Calas's curatorial work (for the London Consortium - Irini Marinaki); Dante/Joyce/Derrida (Maria-Daniella Dick); the representation of refugees in British media (Pauline Donald); Woolf and postmodernism (Derek Ryan).
Vassiliki is a founding member of the Scottish Network of Modernist Studies and a member of the British Association of Modernist Studies and the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies.
Vassiliki convenes the Literary Theory course (Levels 3 and 4) and offers seminars in Literature 1890-1945 (Level 3), Radical Theory (Level 4) and Modernism and the Politics of Gender (Level 4).