Panagiotis Roilos

Panagiotis Roilos is the George Seferis Professor of Modern Greek Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University. He serves as Director of Graduate Studies and is affiliated with the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies. His academic roles include co-founding the book series Cultural Politics, Socioaesthetics, Beginnings and the Harvard Early Modern and Modern Greek Library.

• PhD, Harvard University (1999)
• B.A./Ptychion, University of Athens (Classics, Byzantine, and Modern Greek Literature)

Rois's research spans comparative poetics, postclassical Greek culture, and ritual theory, with a focus on cognitive anthropology, reception studies, and European aestheticism. His work bridges ancient and medieval Greek literature with modern theoretical frameworks, examining orality-literacy transitions and ideological discourses.

His publications include the monographs Amphoteroglossia (2005) and C. P. Cavafy: The Economics of Metonymy (2009), along with co-edited volumes like Greek Ritual Poetics (2005). Recent projects address digital posthumanism (Neomedieval Metacapitalism) and Byzantine imaginaries.

• Forschungsstipendium, Humboldt Foundation (2010)
• Dumbarton Oaks Fellow (2009)
• Honorary PhD, Panteion University (Athens)

Rois actively collaborates on critical editions of Byzantine texts, directs the Delphi Academy of European Studies, and contributes to interdisciplinary initiatives like the Poetics before Modernity research project. His teaching explores topics from Byzantine rhetoric to modern Greek cultural politics.