Fiona Antonelaki

Adjunct Lecturer in Modern Greek Literature, Department of Philology, NKUA

BioPublications

Fiona Antonelaki is an adjunct lecturer in Modern Greek Literature at the Department of Philology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She studied History and Archaeology at the NKUA (B.A. 2011) and Modern Greek Literature at King’s College London (M.A. 2012, Ph.D. 2018). She has previously held research and teaching positions at Princeton University (2019-21), the University of Thessaly (2021-23) and the University of Padua (2023-24). Her research focuses on modern Greek poetry and poetics, with a special interest in radio and audio culture, archival research, and the relationship between literary modernism and popular culture. Her work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals (Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Greek Media & Culture) and edited volumes (C. P. Cavafy: Poetics and Reception: Music, History and the Arts, Routledge, forthcoming). She is reviews co-editor for the Journal of Greek Media & Culture.

Academia: https://uoa.academia.edu/FionaAntonelaki

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4868-9110

Google scholar: https://scholar.google.gr/citations?user=-yHK0lsAAAAJ&hl=el

Selected Publications

Antonelaki, F. (Forthcoming), “Writing for a national listenership: Odysseus Elytis’ Alvaniada as a radio poem”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 49(1).
Antonelaki, F. (Forthcoming), “Performing Cavafy: G. P. Savidis, Elli Lambeti and the poet’s voice” in S. Geroulanos, J. Kittmer and P. Tambakaki (eds.), C. P. Cavafy: Poetics and Reception: Music, History and the Arts, Routledge.
Antonelaki, F. (2024), “A ship heading West: Greek émigré writers and the BBC, 1946-51”, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 10(2) [Special issue: “Radio in and around Greece: Cultural Politics and Literary Cultures, 1939-61”]. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00098_1 .
Αντωνελάκη, Φ. (2024), «Λαϊκή επιμόρφωση και οικιακή ψυχαγωγία: Ο Παπαδιαμάντης στο κρατικό ραδιόφωνο της δεκαετίας του 1950» [Popular education and domestic entertainment: Alexandros Papadiamantis on the National Radio Foundation in the 1950s] στο Η διαχρονία του Παπαδιαμάντη. Πρακτικά Δ΄ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου για τον Αλέξανδρο Παπαδιαμάντη, Αθήνα, Εταιρεία Παπαδιαμαντικών Σπουδών, 559-574. https://papadiamantis.net/
Αντωνελάκη, Φ. (2024), «Ο Καβάφης και η τέχνη της απαγγελίας» [C. P. Cavafy and the art of reading aloud], Ποιητική, 33, 118-130.
Αντωνελάκη, Φ. (2023), «Η Στέρνα μέσα από το Αρχείο Σεφέρη. Το “συναίσθημα-έρημη χώρα” στην Αθήνα του μεσοπολέμου» [The Cistern in the making: Insights from the Seferis Archive: The “Waste Land-feeling” in interwar Athens], Παλίμψηστον, 40, 77-111.
Antonelaki, F. (2020), “Poems on virtual balconies: Streaming literary readings in lockdown”, Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 6.2, 289-294. https://doi.org/10.1386/jgmc_00019_1
Antonelaki, F. (2019), “’Literary Evenings’ at the Greek National Theatre, 1945-6: Popular education and the literary canon”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 43(2), 287-313.
https://doi.org/10.1017/byz.2019.15
Antonelaki, F. (2018), “Poetry in performance in postwar Greece, 1945-1965”, Ph.D. diss., King’s College London. 10.12681/eadd/55733
Αντωνελάκη, Φ. (2016), «Ποίηση στο ραδιόφωνο, 1945-1960: Πολιτιστική πολιτική και οι ποιητές της Γενιάς του τριάντα» [Poetry on the radio, 1945-1960: Cultural politics and the poets of the Generation of the 1930s], Βραβείο στη μνήμη του Παναγιώτη Μουλλά, ΜΙΕΤ, 2016. Open-access PDF.