Vassiliki Kolocotroni

Biography

Vassiliki Kolocotroni is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of critical studies

Research Interest

Vassiliki Kolocotroni’s main research interests lie in the areas of modernism and the avant-garde, theory, intermedial studies, translation and film. 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 literature editors of The Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, a major online project covering all aspects and manifestations of modernism in the world. 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.