Nikolas P. Kakkoufa

Faculty

Nikolas P. Kakkoufa joined the Department in 2017. Before his appointment at Columbia, he taught at Princeton University and the University of Cyprus. He received a BA in Classical Studies and Philosophy and an MA in Modern Greek Philology from the University of Cyprus and a PhD in Modern Greek Studies from King’s College London (2015). During 2020-2021 he was a Marilena Laskiridis Research Fellow in Modern Greek Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He is the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Program in Hellenic Studies where he also directs the Modern Greek Language Program and teaches language classes (Elementary to Advanced) and classes on Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, Reception, and Sexuality. He is also an affiliated faculty member of the Institute for the Study of Sexuality and Gender and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. He has served on the Lecturers Advisory Committee (2020-2023) and on the Columbia University Senate (2021-2023). In 2021 he was awarded a Provost Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grant for the project Learning Greece from the Streets: An Urban E-Archaeology of the City

Research Interests

Modern Greek Poetry
Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Reception in Modern Greek and Comparative Literature
The image of the city in Literature
Second Language Acquisition

Research languages

Modern Greek, English, French, Ancient Greek, Latin

Selected Publications

‘So skillfully mirrored in his art’: mirroring desire in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray. In: L. Diamantopoulou and M. Yerolemou, eds. 2019. Mirrors and Mirroring: From Antiquity to the Early Modern Period. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, pp. 93-103.

‘Dangerous dreams and dubious visions in Kornaros’ Erotokritos’. In L. Giannakopoulou and K.E. Skordyles, eds., 2017. Culture and Society in Crete: From Kornaros to Kazantzakis, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, pp. 33-66.

Σατιρικά Γυμνάσματα: μια ιδιάζουσα εφαρμογή της ‘ποιητικής’ μεθόδου της ονοματοχρησίας’. [Satirical Exercises: the employment of the ‘poetic’ method of onomastics]. Proceedings of the Third Palamas International Scientific Conference, 22-26 of October 2013.  Athens:  Academy of Athens – Palamas Foundation. Volume A: 367-390.

Κάνοντας ‘βήματα πίσω’. Η Παραλογή του Μιχάλη Γκανά και το δημοτικό τραγούδι. In: A. Polimerou - Kamilaki, ed., 2013. Λαϊκός Πολιτισμός και έντεχνος λόγος (Ποίηση - Πεζογραφία - Θέατρο). Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Συνεδρίου, 8-10 Δεκεμβρίου 2010. Volume A. Athens: Athens Academy, pp.: 471-482.

Publications

book cover image: Culture and Society in Crete From Kornaros to Kazantzakis

Culture and Society in Crete: From Kornaros to Kazantzakis (2017)

Author: E Kostas Skordyles
Editor: Liana Giannakopoulou
Contributor: Nikolas P. Kakkoufa
Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Mirrors and Mirroring from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (2020)

Editors: Maria Gerolemou & Lilia Diamantopoulou
Contributor: Nikolas P. Kakkoufa
Η ποίηση και η ποιητική του Κωστή Παλαμά : εβδομήντα χρόνια από το θάνατό του, Τόμος Α (2016)

Η ποίηση και η ποιητική του Κωστή Παλαμά : εβδομήντα χρόνια από το θάνατό του, Τόμος Α (2016)

Contributor: Nikolas P. Kakkoufa
Λαϊκός πολιτισμός και έντεχνος λόγος (ποίηση - πεζογραφία - θέατρο) : πρακτικά Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Συνεδρίου (Αθήνα, 8-12 Δεκεμβρίου 2010)

Λαϊκός πολιτισμός και έντεχνος λόγος (ποίηση - πεζογραφία - θέατρο) : πρακτικά Διεθνούς Επιστημονικού Συνεδρίου (Αθήνα, 8-12 Δεκεμβρίου 2010)

Contributor: Nikolas P. Kakkoufa