Dr Anthony Dracopoulos

Qualifications: BEc (Macquarie University), MA (Sydney University), PhD (Flinders University)
Senior Lecturer
Room 751
+61 2 9351 3939


Anthony Dracopoulos teaches Greek Literature, Language and Comparative Literature. His research interests include 19th and 20th poetry and culture, literary theory, comparative literature and cultural studies. He has taught and delivered lectures at Macquarie, Flinders and Panteion Universities.

• 19th and 20th Century Poetry
• Literary Theory
• Comparative Literature
• Modernism and Postmodernism
• Literary Value and Canon Formation

• Polysemy in C. P. Cavafy
• 'The Land We Call Home: A Comparative Study of Homeland and Exile'

Books

• G. Seferis and Criticism: The Reception of Seferis' work (1931-1971), Athens: Plethron, 2002, p. 338
• Cavafy’s Polysemy (forthcoming)

Articles

• “On the ‘Moment’ and Polyphony in Cavafy: Reading the poem ‘In Sparta’, in E. Close, M. Tsianikas, G. Couvalis (ed), Greek Research in Australia, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2007, p. 543-556.
• “The Cavafean Universe at the Age of Fragmentation”, in K. Dimadis (ed), The Greek World from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century, Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 2007, p. 553-562.
• “On Cavafean Irony and the Elusive ‘Wholeness’”, in V. Karalis (ed.), Culture and Memory: Special Issue of Modern Greek Studies Australia and New Zealand, (2006) p. 191-201.
• "Revisiting the Cavafean City", Literature and Aesthetics, 15:2(December 2005), p. 39-47.
• “Reality Otherness, Perception: Reading Cavafy’s Myris: Alexandria, AD 340”, Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 11-12 (2003-2004), p. 134-145
• “A Journey to Santorini of the 1930s: Seferis, Kalas, Elytes”, in Greece of the Islands from the Venetian Period to the Present Day, (A. Argyriou ed.), Athens: Ellinika Grammata, 2004, p.487-498.
• “Seferis' return to his birth place: Home, Identity, Memory” in E. Close, M. Tsianikas, G. Frazis (ed), Proceedings of the Annual Conference on Greek Studies, The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2001, p. 327-340.
• "Modern Greek Studies outside Greece: Redefining the Object of Study", Hellenic Studies in the Antipodes, Sydney, 2001, p. 82-89.
• "The Guilt of Writing and the Adventure of Reading", Themata Logotechnias, 14(2000) p. 64-76.
• "What did Seferis See in the Monastries of Cappadocia?", Diavazo, (Sept. 2000) p. 112-117.
• "The Weak Revolution: Avant-Garde in the Greek Poetry of the 1930s", Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 5-7(1997-1999), p. 51-78.
• "Review Paper: The Freedom of the Void: D. Dimiroulis' 'The Poet as Nation' ", To Vema, 1998
• "The Essayist Seferis: The Poet-Critic and the Construction of Tradition", Themata Logotechnias, 6 (Jul.-Oct. 1997), p. 75-90.

Teaching

• Greek Modernism
• Literary History and Poetics
• The Ancient Greek Heritage
• Comparative Literature
• Hellenism and Greekness
• Post War Greek Poetry
• Greek Language: Style and Expression

Supervision

• 19th and 20th Century Greek Poetry
• Literary Value
• Modernism
• Comparative Literature

• Anthony Dracopoulos has regularly presented papers at conferences organised by the following bodies: European Association of Modern Greek Studies, Australian and New Zealand Association of Modern Greek Studies and Flinders University. He has co-convened a number of conferences of MGSANZ.

• Anthony Dracopoulos has served as a member of the following faculty committees: Library, Undergraduate Matters, Policy and Review and Research committee. He has also served in various positions of the executive of MGSANZ.