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Antonis Balasopoulos, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies, University of Cyprus, is one of the most important younger scholars working in literary criticism and theory today. He has co-edited Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories; Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States; and States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives.

He has held a Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University and has been appointed Institute Faculty at the Dartmouth Institute of American Studies, Dartmouth College. His research interests include Utopian fiction and nonfiction, 16th-19th centuries; Literature and Culture of US Empire, 1800-1900; literature, geography and the production of space; nationalism, colonialism and postcoloniality; critical theory, especially Marxism, genre theory, and theories of the political; visual culture, especially cinema.

Sponsored by the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of German Studies, the English Department, the Program in Modern Thought and Literature, and The Forum on Contemporary Europe.

Publications and Edited Volumes

Antonis Balasopoulos and Stephanos Stephanides, eds. Special Issue on Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories. Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 13 (2005). 230 pages.

Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, Dora Tsimpouki, eds. Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter (forthcoming Winter 2008).

Journal Essays

“The Demon of (Racial) History: Reading Candyman.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 5 (1999): 25-47.

“‘The Latter Part of [the] Commonwealth Forgets the Beginning': Empire and Utopian Economics in Early Modern New World Discourse.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 9 (2001): 31-53. Online access:



“The Spatial Politics of Partition Literature.” The European English Messenger 11.2 (2002): 53-56.

“Progress, Regression, Repetition: Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan of the Apes and the Ambivalences of Imperial Modernity.” Imaginaires 9 (2003): 199-213.

“Unworldly Worldliness: America and the Trajectories of Utopian Expansionism.” Utopian Studies 15.2 (Spring 2004): 3-35. Online access:



(with Stephanos Stephanides). “The Work of the Wor(l)d: Comparative Literature and Global Studies.” Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 13 (2005): 7-19.

“‘Suffer a Sea Change’: Spatial Crisis, Maritime Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia.” Cultural Critique 63(Spring 2006): 122-156.