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Georgios (Yiorgos) Podaropoulos

Doctoral Research Fellow - English Language Literature

Email georgios.podaropoulos@ilos.uio.no

Phone +47 22 85 61 22

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Visiting address Postboks 1003 Blindern 0316 Oslo

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Academic interests

comparative literature • literary and cultural theories • futures studies • literature and linguistics

Background

MRes in Literary Studies (programme: Arts, Literature, and Media), Leiden University (summa cum laude, 2023)
BA in Philology, University of Athens (first class honours, 2020)
Visiting: Université libre de Bruxelles (2018-2019); University of Lisbon (2026)

Experience

Pre-doctoral Fellow, Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies (2020-2021)

Grants and awards

(selection) Netherlands Research School for Literary Studies (Thesis Prize) • Royal Netherlands Society of Sciences and Humanities (Thesis Prize nomination) • University of Athens (1st Student Award in Philology, History, and Archaeology) • Onassis Foundation (MA scholarship) • Greek State (BA scholarship)

Tags: Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Comparative Literature, Future, Utopia, Crisis, English, Greek, French, indigenous, Modernism, Postmodernism, Contemporary, Film, Philosophy of language

Podaropoulos, Georgios (2024). Beyond Grammars of Utopia: Crisis of Imagination and Utopianism by Negation or Affirmation in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Junctions. 8(1), p. 8–23. doi: 10.33391/jgjh.180. Full text in Research Archive

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Podaropoulos, Georgios (2024). "Elsewhere than elsewhere: Unnarratable narratives of the future in Sotiris Dimitriou’s utopian thought." 28th MGSA Symposium, Princeton University, Oct 2024. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2024). “From the future to the future’s future: A comparative reading of Constantine Cavafy’s ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’ and Julien Gracq’s The Opposing Shore”, International Cavafy Summer School, Cavafy Archive, July 2024. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2023). “An elsewhere devoid of elsewhere thinking: Allotopia in Sotiris Dimitriou’s The Silence of the Dry Weed.” Hermes Consortium for Literary and Cultural Studies, Università di Siena, June 2023. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2022). “Are they the Cyclops or the Phaeacians? Unsettling Homeric configurations of utopia in James Joyce’s Ulysses.“ Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World, Yale University, Nov 2022. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2022). “Un-inter-textual love? Untexting the intertext in Jeanette Winterson’s Written on the Body.” Scottish Universities’ International Summer School, University of Edinburgh, Aug 2022. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2022). “Towards an affirmative utopia: Homeric dystopian thinking in James Joyce’s Ulysses and the logic of negation.” Visions of Utopia in Greek Literature and Beyond, Leiden University, June 2022. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2021). "Struggling with/for possibilities: Shifting sightline and focus in the Greek victory odes.” 10th International Scholars’ Symposium on Sports, Society & Culture, Harvard University - International Olympic Academy, Oct 2021. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2021). "The body and the shaping of the historical discourse in Thucydides 7." 3rd Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference on the Ancient World, New York University, Feb 2021. Full text in Research Archive
Podaropoulos, Georgios (2021). "The lyric gaze: The poetics of perspective on the body in the Greek victory odes.” 1st CHS Research Workshop, Harvard University, July 2021. Full text in Research Archive