Professor Vassiliki Kolocotroni

  • Professor of Modernist Studies (English Literature)

telephone: 01413305697
email: Vassiliki.Kolocotroni@glasgow.ac.uk

R303 Level 3, English Literature, 5 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-6527

Research interests

My main research interests lie in the areas of international modernism and the avant-garde, classical reception, theory, visual art approaches, travel, and film

I am the co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents, The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (both published by Edinburgh UP), and General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. I have published widely on modernism, Hellenism, theory and on international and transcultural encounters (incl. most recently on Proust, Sebald, Woolf, Joyce, Conrad, H.D., Freud, Rhys, Benjamin, Brecht, Cavafy, Derrida, Heidegger and Spark). In recent years, I have edited Special Issues on New Queer Greece, the bicentenary of the 1821 Greek Revolution (for the Journal of Greek Media and Culture), and Muriel Spark (for Textual Practice), as well as the poetry and correspondence of the Greek-American Surrealist poet and art historian Nicolas Calas. I have also written on film and on the theoretical and literary work of Julia Kristeva. I am currently at work on a number of projects, including a monograph on modernism and Hellenism, two essays on the Scottish Philhellenes Edward Masson and Isabella Fyvie Mayo, and an essay collection on Isadora Duncan and modernism.

 

 

Research groups

  • Literature & Philosophy
  • Modernities

Publications

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Number of items: 72.

2024

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) “Doing one’s own little share”: Weaponising smallness in Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s A Daughter of the Klephts, or a Girl of Modern Greece. In: Mitsi, Efterpi and Despotopoulou, Anna (eds.) Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters. Series: British school at Athens: modern Greek and Byzantine studies. Routledge: London; New York, pp. 130-146. ISBN 9781032495200 (doi: 10.4324/9781003394235-13)

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) Edward Masson, Caledonian witness to the fortunes of modern Greece. In: Beaton, Roderick and Gaul, Niels (eds.) The Greek Revolution of 1821: European Contexts, Scottish Connections. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 327-352. ISBN 9781399520638

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) The porous and the partisan: modernist continentality and the red thread. In: Hoffmann, John (ed.) Modernism and its Continents. Series: Hopkins studies in modernism. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Michelle Zerba, Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 241. Cloth $99.95. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 41(1), pp. 154-157. (doi: 10.1353/mgs.2023.0010)[Book Review]

Despotopoulou, A., Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2023) Hotel Modernisms. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032081274

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Hotel Trouble. In: Despotopoulou, Anna, Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Mitsi, Efterpi (eds.) Hotel Modernisms. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032081274 (doi: 10.4324/9781003213079-2)

Kolocotroni, V. , Papargyriou, E. and Papadimitriou, L. (Eds.) (2023) Journal of Greek Media and Culture 9(1). Journal of Greek Media and Culture. 9(1) [Edited Journal]

2022

Kolocotroni, V. (2022) "The taste of things inconceivable": Spark, Proust and the Sacramental Way. In: Nichols, Bridget and Taylor, Nicholas (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations with the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham. ISBN 9781789592528

Solomos, M., Thomopoulos, S., Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (2022) Iannis Xenakis 2022: a discussion of his life and legacy on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 8(2), pp. 271-281. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00064_7)

2021

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Rethinking the modernist moment: crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed kairos. In: Rabaté, Jean-Michel and Spiropoulou, Angeliki (eds.) Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics. Series: Historicizing modernism. Bloomsbury, pp. 73-89. ISBN 9781350202962

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Cavafy among the modernists. boundary 2, 48(2), pp. 59-87. (doi: 10.1215/01903659-8936684)

Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (Eds.) (2021) 1821: Mediation, Reception, Archive. Intellect.

Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (2021) 2021: Spectres of commemorations past. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 7(2), pp. 143-152. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00043_7)

2020

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Hickman (M.), Kozak (L.) (edd.) The Classics in Modernist Translation. Pp. xvii + 264, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-04095-3. Classical Review, 70(2), pp. 516-518. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X2000044X)[Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Jean Rhys’s comédie anglaise. In: Davison, Claire, Ryan, Derek and Goldman, Jane A. (eds.) Cross-Channel Modernisms. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 120-137. ISBN 9781474441872

2019

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Destruction preservation, or the edifying ruin in Benjamin and Brecht. In: Mitsi, Efterpi, Despotopoulou, Anna, Dimakopoulou, Stamatina and Aretoulakis, Emmanouil (eds.) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030269043

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) The 'Perpetual Immunity' of the word: Joyce and World Peace. In: Pollentier, Caroline and Wilson, Sarah (eds.) Modernist Communities Across Cultures and Media. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, pp. 141-158. ISBN 9780813056128

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Nicolas Calas. In: Richardson, Michael, Ades, Dawn, Fijalkowski, Krzysztof, Harris, Steven and Sebbag, Georges (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781474226936

2018

Athanasiou, A., Kolocotroni, V. and Papanikolaou, D. (2018) 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), pp. 269-280. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.269_7)

Papanikolaou, D. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) New queer Greece: performance, politics and identity in crisis. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4(2), pp. 143-150. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.143_2)

Kolocotroni, V. and Papanikolaou, D. (2018) New Queer Greece [Guest Editors]. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4(2),

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The instant of their debt: Derrida with Freud and Heidegger in Greece. In: Rabaté, Jean-Michel (ed.) After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century. Series: After series. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 21-38. ISBN 9781108444521

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Orlando, Greece and the impossible landscape. In: Högberg, Elsa and Bromley, Amy (eds.) Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9781474414609

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (Eds.) (2018) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Hellenism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 178-179. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Modernism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Driver’s Seat: undoing character, becoming legend. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1545-1562. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533180)

Maley, W. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Introduction: Prime Spark. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1485-1493. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533170)

Maley, W. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Prime of Muriel Spark: a Centenary Retrospect [Guest Editors]. Textual Practice, 32(9),

Maley, W. , Kolocotroni, V. and Greig, D. (2018) David Greig – Spark at play: a dialogue with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Willy Maley. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1677-1680. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533173)

2017

Kolocotroni, V. (2017) Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form. In: Papargyriou, Eleni, Assinder, Semele and Holton, David (eds.) Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013. Peter Lang: New York. ISBN 9781433131936

2016

Papadimitriou, L., Eleftheriotis, D. , Kolocotroni, V. , Papanikolaou, D., Papargyriou, E. and Tzioumakis, Y. (2016) Journal of Greek Media and Culture [Issue editor]. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2(1),

2015

Kolocotroni, V. (2015) Glasgow Constellations: Episode 1 The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii. [Audio]

Kolocotroni, V. (2015) Literature in Europe. In: Ross, Stephen and Lindgren, Allana C. (eds.) The Modernist World. Series: Routledge Worlds. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 339-346. ISBN 9780415845038

2012

Kolocotroni, V. (2012) Still life: Modernism's turn to Greece. Journal of Modern Literature, 35(2), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.2979/jmodelite.35.2.1)

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (Eds.) (2012) Nikolaos Kalas - Vios kai Politeia: I Sinentefxi gia ta Archeia tis Amerikanikis Technis to 1977 [Nicolas Calas: The Interview for the Archives of American Art, 1977]. Ypsilon Books: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789601703183

Kolocotroni, V. (2012) Strange cries and ancient songs: Woolf’s Greek and the politics of intelligibility. In: Randall, B. and Goldman, J. (eds.) Virginia Woolf in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107003613

2011

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (2011) 'Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology’ edited and translated by Nikos Stabakis. Papers of Surrealism, 9, [Book Review]

2010

Kolocotroni, V. (2010) Poetic perception in the fiction of Muriel Spark. In: Gardiner, M. and Maley, W. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748637683

Kolocotroni, V. (2010) Writers among the ruins: Freud, Conrad, and the psychomythology of memory. English, 59(225), pp. 154-173. (doi: 10.1093/english/efp042)

2009

Kolocotroni, V. (2009) Minotaur in Manhattan: Nicolas Calas and the fortunes of surrealism. Modernist Cultures, 4(1), pp. 84-102. (doi: 10.3366/E2041102209000471)

2008

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2008) Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel. Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9789042024816

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (2008) Introduction. In: Kolocotroni, V. and Efterpi, M. (eds.) Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel. Rodopi, pp. 5-19. ISBN 9789042024816

2006

Kolocotroni, V. (2006) 1899, Vienna and the Congo: the art of darkness. In: McHale, B. and Stevenson, R. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 11-22. ISBN 0748620117

2005

Kolocotroni, V. (2005) This curious silent unrepresented life: Greek lessons in Virginia Woolf's early fiction. Modern Language Review, 100(2), pp. 313-322.

Kolocotroni, V. and Metse, E. (Eds.) (2005) Στη Χώρα του Φεγγαριού: Βρετανίδες Περιηγήτριες στην Ελλάδα (1718-1932) [Ste Chora tou Phengariou: Vretanides Periegetries sten Hellada (1718-1932)]. Hestia: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600512014

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2005) In the Country of the Moon: British Women Travellers in Greece, 1718-1932. Hestia Publishers. ISBN 9799600512013

2004

Kolocotroni, V. (2004) Nicolas Calas, 'Black is Beautiful' (translated into Greek). Nea Synteleia, 1-2, p. 28.

Kolocotroni, V. (2004) Nicolas Calas, 'I Elliniki Pyli stin Evropi'. Nea Synteleia, 1-2, pp. 30-34.

2002

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (Eds.) (2002) Νικόλαος Κάλας, Δεκαέξι Γαλλικά Ποιήματα και Αλληλογραφία με τον Ουίλλιαμ Κάρλος Ουίλλιαμς [Dekaexi Gallika Poiimata kai Allilografia me ton Ouïlliam Karlos Ouïlliams]. Ypsilon Books: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789601700847

Argyropoulos, S. and Kolocotroni, V. (Eds.) (2002) Nicolas Calas: 16 French Poems and a Correspondence with William Carlos Williams. Ypsilon Books. ISBN 9601700846

Kolocotroni, V. (2002) Review of: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume VII: Modernism and the New Criticism (ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey). European Journal of English Studies, 6(1), pp. 126-130. [Book Review]

2000

Kolocotroni, V. (2000) Monuments of time: the works of Theo Angelopoulos. In: Orr, J. and Taxidou, O. (eds.) Post-war Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 399-409. ISBN 9780748612826

Kolocotroni, V. (2000) Review of: Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce and Greek and Hellenic Culture in Joyce, by R. J. Schork. Translation and Literature, 9(1), pp. 126-130. [Book Review]

1999

Kolocotroni, V. (1999) 'Familiar materials': Joyce among Europeans. Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 20, pp. 209-222.

1998

Kolocotroni, V., Goldman, J. and Taxidou, O. (Eds.) (1998) Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780226450735

1997

Kolocotroni, V. and LeBihan, J. (1997) Feminism. In: McGowan, K. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 4, 1994. Blackwell: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631205234

Kolocotroni, V. , Mills, S., Brimstone, L., Polkey, P., Wallace, D., Sandhu, A. and Goldman, J. (1997) Feminism. In: McGowan, K. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 3, 1993. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 87-130. ISBN 9780631188612

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (1997) Modernism and Hellenism: aspects of a melancholy sensibility. In: Tziovas, D. (ed.) Greek Modernism and Beyond. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, Md., pp. 11-23. ISBN 9780847685769

1996

Kolocotroni, V. (1996) Avant-garde practice: Julia Kristeva interviewed by Vassiliki Kolocotroni. In: Guberman, R.M. (ed.) Julai Kristeva, Interviews. Series: European Perspectives. Columbia University Press: New York, pp. 211-225. ISBN 0231104863

Kolocotroni, V. and Mills, S. (1996) Feminism. In: Regan, S. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 2, 1992. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 78-117. ISBN 9780631188599

1995

Kolocotroni, V. (1995) Angels and heroes: stories of modernity in Pater and Baudelaire. Glasgow Review, 3(Summer), pp. 77-90.

Kolocotroni, V. (1995) Modernism and post-modernism: the duplicity of innovation. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, 3, pp. 41-62.

1994

Kolocotroni, V. (1994) A little inner mythology: Kristeva as novelist. New Formations, 21, pp. 146-157.

Kolocotroni, V. (1994) Review of: The Critical Mythology of Irony, by Joseph A. Dane. Modern Language Review, 89(2), pp. 428-429. [Book Review]

1993

Kolocotroni, V. (1993) Review of: Irony and the Discourse of Modernity, by Ernst Behler. Modern Language Review: The Yearbook of English Studies, 23, pp. 363-364. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1993) Review of: Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem, by Robert Alter. Modern Language Review, 88(4), pp. 1035-1036. [Book Review]

1992

Kolocotroni, V. and Metzstein, M. (1992) Modernity - postmodernity: a dialogue. Textual Practice, 6(3), pp. 478-490. (doi: 10.1080/09502369208582151)

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (1992) A dry white season: the personal and the political. In: Orr, J. and Nicholson, C. (eds.) Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950-1990. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9780748603565

1991

Kolocotroni, V. (1991) Julia Kristeva interviewed by Vassiliki Kolocotroni. Textual Practice, 5(2), pp. 157-170. (doi: 10.1080/09502369108582109)

1990

Kolocotroni, V. (1990) Review of: Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Maud Ellmann. Parlance: The Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 2, pp. 141-143. [Book Review]

1988

Kolocotroni, V. (1988) Review of: Franco Moretti: The Way of the World. Parlance: The Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 1(1), pp. 49-56. [Book Review]

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Articles

Solomos, M., Thomopoulos, S., Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (2022) Iannis Xenakis 2022: a discussion of his life and legacy on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 8(2), pp. 271-281. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00064_7)

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Cavafy among the modernists. boundary 2, 48(2), pp. 59-87. (doi: 10.1215/01903659-8936684)

Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (2021) 2021: Spectres of commemorations past. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 7(2), pp. 143-152. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc_00043_7)

Athanasiou, A., Kolocotroni, V. and Papanikolaou, D. (2018) 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), pp. 269-280. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.269_7)

Papanikolaou, D. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) New queer Greece: performance, politics and identity in crisis. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4(2), pp. 143-150. (doi: 10.1386/jgmc.4.2.143_2)

Kolocotroni, V. and Papanikolaou, D. (2018) New Queer Greece [Guest Editors]. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4(2),

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Driver’s Seat: undoing character, becoming legend. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1545-1562. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533180)

Maley, W. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Introduction: Prime Spark. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1485-1493. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533170)

Maley, W. and Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The Prime of Muriel Spark: a Centenary Retrospect [Guest Editors]. Textual Practice, 32(9),

Maley, W. , Kolocotroni, V. and Greig, D. (2018) David Greig – Spark at play: a dialogue with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Willy Maley. Textual Practice, 32(9), pp. 1677-1680. (doi: 10.1080/0950236X.2018.1533173)

Papadimitriou, L., Eleftheriotis, D. , Kolocotroni, V. , Papanikolaou, D., Papargyriou, E. and Tzioumakis, Y. (2016) Journal of Greek Media and Culture [Issue editor]. Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 2(1),

Kolocotroni, V. (2012) Still life: Modernism's turn to Greece. Journal of Modern Literature, 35(2), pp. 1-24. (doi: 10.2979/jmodelite.35.2.1)

Kolocotroni, V. (2010) Writers among the ruins: Freud, Conrad, and the psychomythology of memory. English, 59(225), pp. 154-173. (doi: 10.1093/english/efp042)

Kolocotroni, V. (2009) Minotaur in Manhattan: Nicolas Calas and the fortunes of surrealism. Modernist Cultures, 4(1), pp. 84-102. (doi: 10.3366/E2041102209000471)

Kolocotroni, V. (2005) This curious silent unrepresented life: Greek lessons in Virginia Woolf's early fiction. Modern Language Review, 100(2), pp. 313-322.

Kolocotroni, V. (2004) Nicolas Calas, 'Black is Beautiful' (translated into Greek). Nea Synteleia, 1-2, p. 28.

Kolocotroni, V. (2004) Nicolas Calas, 'I Elliniki Pyli stin Evropi'. Nea Synteleia, 1-2, pp. 30-34.

Kolocotroni, V. (1999) 'Familiar materials': Joyce among Europeans. Miscelanea: A Journal of English and American Studies, 20, pp. 209-222.

Kolocotroni, V. (1995) Angels and heroes: stories of modernity in Pater and Baudelaire. Glasgow Review, 3(Summer), pp. 77-90.

Kolocotroni, V. (1995) Modernism and post-modernism: the duplicity of innovation. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism, 3, pp. 41-62.

Kolocotroni, V. (1994) A little inner mythology: Kristeva as novelist. New Formations, 21, pp. 146-157.

Kolocotroni, V. and Metzstein, M. (1992) Modernity - postmodernity: a dialogue. Textual Practice, 6(3), pp. 478-490. (doi: 10.1080/09502369208582151)

Kolocotroni, V. (1991) Julia Kristeva interviewed by Vassiliki Kolocotroni. Textual Practice, 5(2), pp. 157-170. (doi: 10.1080/09502369108582109)

Book Sections

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) “Doing one’s own little share”: Weaponising smallness in Isabella Fyvie Mayo’s A Daughter of the Klephts, or a Girl of Modern Greece. In: Mitsi, Efterpi and Despotopoulou, Anna (eds.) Victorians and Modern Greece: Literary and Cultural Encounters. Series: British school at Athens: modern Greek and Byzantine studies. Routledge: London; New York, pp. 130-146. ISBN 9781032495200 (doi: 10.4324/9781003394235-13)

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) Edward Masson, Caledonian witness to the fortunes of modern Greece. In: Beaton, Roderick and Gaul, Niels (eds.) The Greek Revolution of 1821: European Contexts, Scottish Connections. Series: Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 327-352. ISBN 9781399520638

Kolocotroni, V. (2024) The porous and the partisan: modernist continentality and the red thread. In: Hoffmann, John (ed.) Modernism and its Continents. Series: Hopkins studies in modernism. Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore. (Accepted for Publication)

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Hotel Trouble. In: Despotopoulou, Anna, Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Mitsi, Efterpi (eds.) Hotel Modernisms. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032081274 (doi: 10.4324/9781003213079-2)

Kolocotroni, V. (2022) "The taste of things inconceivable": Spark, Proust and the Sacramental Way. In: Nichols, Bridget and Taylor, Nicholas (eds.) The End of the Church? Conversations with the Work of David Jasper. Sacristy Press: Durham. ISBN 9781789592528

Kolocotroni, V. (2021) Rethinking the modernist moment: crisis, (im)potentiality and E. M. Forster’s failed kairos. In: Rabaté, Jean-Michel and Spiropoulou, Angeliki (eds.) Historical Modernisms: Time, History and Modernist Aesthetics. Series: Historicizing modernism. Bloomsbury, pp. 73-89. ISBN 9781350202962

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Jean Rhys’s comédie anglaise. In: Davison, Claire, Ryan, Derek and Goldman, Jane A. (eds.) Cross-Channel Modernisms. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 120-137. ISBN 9781474441872

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Destruction preservation, or the edifying ruin in Benjamin and Brecht. In: Mitsi, Efterpi, Despotopoulou, Anna, Dimakopoulou, Stamatina and Aretoulakis, Emmanouil (eds.) Ruins in the Literary and Cultural Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783030269043

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) The 'Perpetual Immunity' of the word: Joyce and World Peace. In: Pollentier, Caroline and Wilson, Sarah (eds.) Modernist Communities Across Cultures and Media. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, pp. 141-158. ISBN 9780813056128

Kolocotroni, V. (2019) Nicolas Calas. In: Richardson, Michael, Ades, Dawn, Fijalkowski, Krzysztof, Harris, Steven and Sebbag, Georges (eds.) The International Encyclopedia of Surrealism. Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781474226936

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) The instant of their debt: Derrida with Freud and Heidegger in Greece. In: Rabaté, Jean-Michel (ed.) After Derrida: Literature, Theory and Criticism in the 21st Century. Series: After series. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 21-38. ISBN 9781108444521

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Orlando, Greece and the impossible landscape. In: Högberg, Elsa and Bromley, Amy (eds.) Sentencing Orlando: Virginia Woolf and the Morphology of the Modernist Sentence. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 137-153. ISBN 9781474414609

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Hellenism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 178-179. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. (2018) Modernism. In: Kolocotroni, Vassiliki and Taxidou, Olga (eds.) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, pp. 1-4. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. (2017) Monuments and Maidens: The Allegory of Greek Form. In: Papargyriou, Eleni, Assinder, Semele and Holton, David (eds.) Greece in British Women’s Literary Imagination, 1913-2013. Peter Lang: New York. ISBN 9781433131936

Kolocotroni, V. (2015) Literature in Europe. In: Ross, Stephen and Lindgren, Allana C. (eds.) The Modernist World. Series: Routledge Worlds. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 339-346. ISBN 9780415845038

Kolocotroni, V. (2012) Strange cries and ancient songs: Woolf’s Greek and the politics of intelligibility. In: Randall, B. and Goldman, J. (eds.) Virginia Woolf in Context. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. ISBN 9781107003613

Kolocotroni, V. (2010) Poetic perception in the fiction of Muriel Spark. In: Gardiner, M. and Maley, W. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Muriel Spark. Series: Edinburgh companions to Scottish literature. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9780748637683

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (2008) Introduction. In: Kolocotroni, V. and Efterpi, M. (eds.) Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel. Rodopi, pp. 5-19. ISBN 9789042024816

Kolocotroni, V. (2006) 1899, Vienna and the Congo: the art of darkness. In: McHale, B. and Stevenson, R. (eds.) The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century Literatures in English. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 11-22. ISBN 0748620117

Kolocotroni, V. (2000) Monuments of time: the works of Theo Angelopoulos. In: Orr, J. and Taxidou, O. (eds.) Post-war Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 399-409. ISBN 9780748612826

Kolocotroni, V. and LeBihan, J. (1997) Feminism. In: McGowan, K. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 4, 1994. Blackwell: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631205234

Kolocotroni, V. , Mills, S., Brimstone, L., Polkey, P., Wallace, D., Sandhu, A. and Goldman, J. (1997) Feminism. In: McGowan, K. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 3, 1993. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 87-130. ISBN 9780631188612

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (1997) Modernism and Hellenism: aspects of a melancholy sensibility. In: Tziovas, D. (ed.) Greek Modernism and Beyond. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, Md., pp. 11-23. ISBN 9780847685769

Kolocotroni, V. (1996) Avant-garde practice: Julia Kristeva interviewed by Vassiliki Kolocotroni. In: Guberman, R.M. (ed.) Julai Kristeva, Interviews. Series: European Perspectives. Columbia University Press: New York, pp. 211-225. ISBN 0231104863

Kolocotroni, V. and Mills, S. (1996) Feminism. In: Regan, S. (ed.) The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, vol. 2, 1992. Blackwell: Oxford, UK, pp. 78-117. ISBN 9780631188599

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (1992) A dry white season: the personal and the political. In: Orr, J. and Nicholson, C. (eds.) Cinema and Fiction: New Modes of Adapting, 1950-1990. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh, UK, pp. 39-54. ISBN 9780748603565

Book Reviews

Kolocotroni, V. (2023) Michelle Zerba, Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2021. Pp. x + 241. Cloth $99.95. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 41(1), pp. 154-157. (doi: 10.1353/mgs.2023.0010)[Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (2020) Hickman (M.), Kozak (L.) (edd.) The Classics in Modernist Translation. Pp. xvii + 264, ills. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Cased, £85, US$114. ISBN: 978-1-350-04095-3. Classical Review, 70(2), pp. 516-518. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X2000044X)[Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (2011) 'Surrealism in Greece: An Anthology’ edited and translated by Nikos Stabakis. Papers of Surrealism, 9, [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (2002) Review of: The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism. Volume VII: Modernism and the New Criticism (ed. A. Walton Litz, Louis Menand and Lawrence Rainey). European Journal of English Studies, 6(1), pp. 126-130. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (2000) Review of: Latin and Roman Culture in Joyce and Greek and Hellenic Culture in Joyce, by R. J. Schork. Translation and Literature, 9(1), pp. 126-130. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1994) Review of: The Critical Mythology of Irony, by Joseph A. Dane. Modern Language Review, 89(2), pp. 428-429. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1993) Review of: Irony and the Discourse of Modernity, by Ernst Behler. Modern Language Review: The Yearbook of English Studies, 23, pp. 363-364. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1993) Review of: Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem, by Robert Alter. Modern Language Review, 88(4), pp. 1035-1036. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1990) Review of: Poetics of Impersonality: T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Maud Ellmann. Parlance: The Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 2, pp. 141-143. [Book Review]

Kolocotroni, V. (1988) Review of: Franco Moretti: The Way of the World. Parlance: The Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association, 1(1), pp. 49-56. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Despotopoulou, A., Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2023) Hotel Modernisms. Series: Among the Victorians and Modernists. Routledge: London. ISBN 9781032081274

Kolocotroni, V. and Papargyriou, E. (Eds.) (2021) 1821: Mediation, Reception, Archive. Intellect.

Kolocotroni, V. and Taxidou, O. (Eds.) (2018) The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748637027

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (Eds.) (2012) Nikolaos Kalas - Vios kai Politeia: I Sinentefxi gia ta Archeia tis Amerikanikis Technis to 1977 [Nicolas Calas: The Interview for the Archives of American Art, 1977]. Ypsilon Books: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789601703183

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2008) Women Writing Greece: Essays on Hellenism, Orientalism and Travel. Series: Internationale Forschungen Zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9789042024816

Kolocotroni, V. and Metse, E. (Eds.) (2005) Στη Χώρα του Φεγγαριού: Βρετανίδες Περιηγήτριες στην Ελλάδα (1718-1932) [Ste Chora tou Phengariou: Vretanides Periegetries sten Hellada (1718-1932)]. Hestia: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789600512014

Kolocotroni, V. and Mitsi, E. (Eds.) (2005) In the Country of the Moon: British Women Travellers in Greece, 1718-1932. Hestia Publishers. ISBN 9799600512013

Kolocotroni, V. and Argyropoulos, S. (Eds.) (2002) Νικόλαος Κάλας, Δεκαέξι Γαλλικά Ποιήματα και Αλληλογραφία με τον Ουίλλιαμ Κάρλος Ουίλλιαμς [Dekaexi Gallika Poiimata kai Allilografia me ton Ouïlliam Karlos Ouïlliams]. Ypsilon Books: Athens, Greece. ISBN 9789601700847

Argyropoulos, S. and Kolocotroni, V. (Eds.) (2002) Nicolas Calas: 16 French Poems and a Correspondence with William Carlos Williams. Ypsilon Books. ISBN 9601700846

Kolocotroni, V., Goldman, J. and Taxidou, O. (Eds.) (1998) Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents. University of Chicago Press: Chicago, USA. ISBN 9780226450735

Edited Journals

Kolocotroni, V. , Papargyriou, E. and Papadimitriou, L. (Eds.) (2023) Journal of Greek Media and Culture 9(1). Journal of Greek Media and Culture. 9(1) [Edited Journal]

Audio

Kolocotroni, V. (2015) Glasgow Constellations: Episode 1 The Fall of Herculaneum and Pompeii. [Audio]

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Grants

As Head of the Graduate School of Arts and Humanities (2005-10) and Associate Dean for Postgraduates (2009-10), I was instrumental in generating AHRC funding for graduate research training initiatives, such as international conferences, one-day symposia, seminar series and exhibitions on interdisciplinary topics such as:

  • Perceptual Experience (2005)
  • Gender (2006)
  • Oral History (2007)
  • Modern Environments (2007)
  • Magic, Art and Meditation (2007)
  • Mourning, Memory and Landscape (2008)
  • Art, Religion, Identity (2009)
  • Caribbean Enlightenment (2010).

Supervision

I am interested in supervising doctoral work in any area of international modernism and the avant-garde, mid-century experimental writing, cultural and critical theory,  politics and aesthetics, and welcome particularly projects with a focus on classical reception, surrealism, intermedial approaches (visual art, film).

Past supervision

I have supervised to successful completion and award over 30 postgraduate research projects, including 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)
  • The role of public monuments in discourses of nationalism and reconciliation (Chrystalleni Loizidou, for the London Consortium)
  • David Foster Wallace (Mark West)
  • Hope Mirrlees and Jane Ellen Harrison (Nina Enemark)
  • Alain Badiou's writings on poetry (Tom Betteridge)
  • The modern Irish novel of formation (Shahriyar Mansouri)
  • Borges's translations of Kafka and Woolf (Rebecca DeWald)
  • American post-war fiction and the traumatised body (Argyro Filippaki)
  • Virginia Woolf and the Short Story (Amy Bromley)
  • Anna Kavan, Ann Quin and Alexander Trocchi (Hannah Van Hove)
  • Two creative writing doctorates on the historical novel (Ioulia Kolovou)
  • The long poem 'Imperative Commands' (Nicky Melville)
  • Models in the writing of W.G. Sebald (Matthew Evans)
  • Oscar Wilde's Afterlives (Ana Markovic)
  • The Sonic Text (Pernille Ravn)
  • Benjamin Fondane's Irresigned Poetics (Andrew Rubens)
  • The aesthetics and ethics of war and conflict in contemporary art (Maria Rossi)
  • Feminism and Auto-theory (Dzenana Vucic)
  • Muriel Spark and the House of Fiction (Kaiyue He)

Current supervision:

 

  • Carr, Felix
    The Aesthetics and Politics of Ressentiment: A Literary Genealogy
  • Cooper, Lauren
    Autotheory from Memoir to Manifestos and Zines
  • Douge, Amanda
    Rosa Luxemburg and I
  • Toumara, Georgia
    Travelling in the Byronic Aura: Cliché and Imaginary Geographies in Late Romantic and Victorian Travelogues to Greece and Italy

Teaching

I am currently convening topic courses in Radical Theory and Modernism and the Politics of Gender (Senior Honours).

I have convened the MLitt in Modernities, the general courses in Literary Theory and Modern Literature 1890-1945 (Junior Honours).

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2014: Irish Research Council, Government of Ireland Postgraduate Scholarship
  • 2020: Irish Research Council - Outer Board Assessment Panel, Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship

Editorial boards

  • 2012: Journal of Greek Media and Culture
  • 2011: Synthesis

Professional & learned societies

  • 2024: Fellow, The English Association

Selected international presentations

  • 2023: Continental Modernisms Workshop (Berlin (funded by University of Marburg))
  • 2022: Invited Speaker as BSA Ambassador: Scotland Seminar (British School at Athens)
  • 2021: Keynote, Literary Hotels Symposium (University of Athens)
  • 2021: Invited talk, 12th A. G. Leventis Conference in Hellenic Studies Thursday 18 November–Saturday 20 November 2021 The Greek Revolution of 1821 Contexts, Scottish Connections, the Classical Tradition (University of Edinburgh)
  • 2019: Invited speaker International Cavafy Summer School (Onassis Foundation)
  • 2018: Invited speaker Société d'études modernistes Research Seminar (University of Paris)
  • 2017: Hellenic Association for the Study of English: Beyond the Ruin Conference (University of Athens)
  • 2017: MSA (Modernist Studies Association) 19 Annual Conference 19 (Amsterdam)
  • 2017: School of English Seminar (University of Luxembourg)
  • 2016: Invited Speaker Roundtable Historical Modernisms Symposium | Institute of English Studies (University of London)
  • 2014: Inaugural conference of French Modernist Studies Association (University of Paris)
  • 2014: Theory Seminar (University of Cambridge)
  • 2013: Keynote, Greece and Britain in Women's Literary Imagination (1914-2012) (University of Cambridge)

Supplementary

  • General Editor, The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism Co-Principal Editor, Journal of Greek Media and Culture (since Jan 2023) Member of Panel of Judges Runciman Book Prize, Anglo-Hellenic League

Additional information

I am the General Editor of the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, and co-Principal Editor of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. I am one of the founders 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. I have been involved with the Scottish Universities' International Summer School for many years as a tutor and director, and latterly as Associate Dean. I co-direct Glasgow University's Centre for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements and chair the Glasgow Gifford Lectures Committee.

I am currently the Internationalisation Officer for the School of Critical Studies, Chair of the University's Gifford Lectures Committee, co-director of the Research Network for the Study of Socialist Theory and Movements and Associate Dean of the Scottish Universities' International Summer School. I have served as Head of the Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities (2005-10), Associate Dean for Postgraduates in the Faculty of Arts (2009-10), Head of English Literature (2014-17), Postgraduate Research Convener in English Literature (2018-23), and as an elected member of Senate.