Professor Dimitris Tziovas

I have served as Director of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Birmingham (2000-2003), Secretary of the European Association of Modern Greek Studies (1995-1998) and on the editorial board of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (1995-2009; 2020-; Reviews Editor 1995-2005) and Journal of Modern Greek Studies (U.S.A 1992-2007).

I have taught as a visiting professor at a number of universities in Europe and America and I am currently General Editor of a series devoted to Modern Greek literature in translation. I have also organised four major international conferences in Birmingham (Greek Modernism and Beyond, 1995; Greece and the Balkans 2001; Greek Diaspora and Migration 2007; Reimagining the Past: Greek Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture, 2011) which have led to important publications

Undergraduate

• Modern Odysseys: Myth, Literature & Film
• Greek Antiquity and Modern Culture
• Cities of the Ancient & Medieval Mediterranean:  Monuments & Memories
• Conflict and Nationalism in the Balkans

Postgraduate

• Modernism and Greek Poetry
• Greek Fiction: From Realism to Postmodernism
• Greek Politics and Culture since the Civil War

Modern Greek literature and culture
Certain aspects of Greek history and politics
Reception of Greek Antiquity
Greek Diaspora and Anglo-Greek relations
Comparative studies in the areas of history, literature, translation and film with reference to Greece

Find out more - our PhD Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies  page has information about doctoral research at the University of Birmingham.

My research interests involve the study of Greek Modernism in a comparative context; the reception of Greek antiquity and Byzantium;  the study of Greek fiction informed by recent developments in critical theory; Greek diaspora and travel writing;  nationalism and Greek culture;  the Greek language controversy; and the cultural encounters between Greece and the Balkans.

My broader research interests also include comparative literary studies, critical theory, translation, film, diaspora and cultural studies.

In 2014 I have been awarded an AHRC grant to lead a networking project on ‘The cultural politics of the Greek crisis’ which aimed to stimulate debate among academics, research students, journalists, artists and writers on the implications of the economic crisis for Greek culture and identity and fostered an interdisciplinary dialogue among historians, literature and performing arts scholars, cultural theorists, political scientists and anthropologists on the ways in which economic crises impact on cultural practices and identity constructions.

In 2018 I have been awarded a two-year Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship.

• Head of Postgraduate Studies (Research)
• International and Exchanges Officer
• Member of the Birmingham Centre for Translation and B-Film: Birmingham Centre for Film Studies
• I have acted as external co-supervisor for PhD theses for the Universities of Warwick, Cambridge, Manchester, University College London, and London Consortium.
• I have organised several annual research colloquia for the Society for Modern Greek Studies which offer research students from all over the UK and other countries the opportunity to present their research.