# Panagiotis Roilos George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and of Comparative Literature On leave spring 2027 Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature ![Panagiotis Roilos](/sites/g/files/omnuum8266/files/styles/hwp_4_5__320x400/public/2025-01/Panagiotis%20Roilos%202024photo.jpg?itok=ttPt00W-) location\_on Boylston 218 and Widener 475 smartphone [617.495.7783](tel:617.495.7783) email laptop\_windows [Website](https://roilos.scholars.harvard.edu/) laptop\_windows [Office Hours Information](https://classics.fas.harvard.edu/faculty-office-hours) Research interests: postclassical Greek literature and culture; comparative poetics; reception studies; cultural politics; cognitive and historical anthropology; critical theory Download 8 citations download- [BibTeX](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=bibtex) - [EndNote X3 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote8) - [EndNote 7 XML](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=endnote7) - [Endnote tagged](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=tagged) - [Marc](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=marc) - [PubMedId](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=pubmed_id) - [RIS](/bibcite/export?pager_style=no_pager&number_of_items=12&sort_field=bibcite_year--desc&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_facultynames%5D%5B0%5D%5Btarget_id%5D=97061&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_recitations%5D&taxonomy_filters%5Bfield_hwp_c_series12%5D&&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Bvalue%5D%5B0%5D=book&additional_filters%5Btype%5D%5B0%5D%5Boperator%5D=IN&format=ris) Roilos, Panagiotis. 2010. *[Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy](/publications/imagination-and-logos-essays-c-p-cavafy)*. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University. Roilos, Panagiotis. 2010. *[Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy](/publications/imagination-and-logos-essays-c-p-cavafy)*. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674053397) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674053397) Roilos, Panagiotis. 2009. *[C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy](/publications/c-p-cavafy-economics-metonymy)*. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. Roilos, Panagiotis. 2009. *[C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy](/publications/c-p-cavafy-economics-metonymy)*. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c034817) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c034817) Roilos, Panagiotis. 2006. *[Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel](/publications/amphoteroglossia-poetics-twelfth-century-medieval-greek-novel)*. Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Roilos, Panagiotis. 2006. *[Amphoteroglossia: A Poetics of the Twelfth-Century Medieval Greek Novel](/publications/amphoteroglossia-poetics-twelfth-century-medieval-greek-novel)*. Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674017917) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674017917) Roilos, Panagiotis. 2014. *[Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium](/publications/medieval-greek-storytelling-fictionality-and-narrative-byzantium)*. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. Roilos, Panagiotis. 2014. *[Medieval Greek Storytelling: Fictionality and Narrative in Byzantium](/publications/medieval-greek-storytelling-fictionality-and-narrative-byzantium)*. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_168.ahtml) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/title_168.ahtml) Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2005. *[Greek Ritual Poetics](/publications/greekritualpoetics)*. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2005. *[Greek Ritual Poetics](/publications/greekritualpoetics)*. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies, Trustees for Harvard University. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674017924) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674017924) Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2014. *[Verso Una Poetica Rituale](/publications/verso-una-poetica-rituale)*. Lecce, Italia: Argo. Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2014. *[Verso Una Poetica Rituale](/publications/verso-una-poetica-rituale)*. Lecce, Italia: Argo. Roilos, Panagiotis, and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis. 2005. *[Προς μία τελετουργική ποιητική](/publications/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE)*. Athens: Ekdoseis Alexandreia. Roilos, Panagiotis, and Dimitrios Yatromanolakis. 2005. *[Προς μία τελετουργική ποιητική](/publications/%CF%80%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%82-%CE%BC%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%B5%CF%84%CE%BF%CF%85%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE-%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%B9%CE%B7%CF%84%CE%B9%CE%BA%CE%AE)*. Athens: Ekdoseis Alexandreia. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://alexandria-publ.gr/shop/towards-a-ritual-poetics/) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://alexandria-publ.gr/shop/towards-a-ritual-poetics/) Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2003. *[Towards a Ritual Poetics](/publications/towards-ritual-poetics)*. Athens: Foundation of the Hellenic World. Yatromanolakis, Dimitrios, and Panagiotis Roilos. 2003. *[Towards a Ritual Poetics](/publications/towards-ritual-poetics)*. Athens: Foundation of the Hellenic World. - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.fhw.gr/publications/index.php?lang=2&view=prod&ekd_id=30) - [ descriptionPublisher's Version](http://www.fhw.gr/publications/index.php?lang=2&view=prod&ekd_id=30) - ## People Role [Classics Faculty](/people-role/classics-faculty)