Peter Jeffreys, Assistant Professor
Peter Jeffreys
Assistant Professor
Suffolk University
Department of English
41 Temple St.
Boston, MA 02114
Office: Fenton 228
Telephone: (617) 994-6438
Email: peter.jeffreys@suffolk.edu
Degrees
PhD, English Literature, University of Toronto
MA, English Literature, Boston College
BA, Greek Studies, Hellenic College
Certificate in Greek Literature, Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece
Research Interests
British Modernism, the Bloomsbury Group, Modern Greek Literature, Literary Decadence, British Aestheticism, Byzantine Art and Iconography, Byzantine Hymnography
Books
Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E.M. Forster and C P. Cavafy. ELT Press of English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. The 1880-1920 British Authors Series, Number 18. University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2005.
The Erotic Sublime: C.P. Cavafy and the Decadent Tradition. Cornell University Press (forthcoming).
Cavafy’s Major Prose. Birmingham Modern Greek Translations: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK (forthcoming).
Friends at a Slight Angle: The E.M. Forster-C.P. Cavafy Letters. American University in Cairo Press (forthcoming).
Saint George’s Greek Orthodox Church: An Architectural and Iconographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (private printing), 2000.
Articles
“’Aesthetic to the point of affliction’: Cavafy and English Aestheticism.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 24.1 (2006): 57-89.
“Cavafian Catoptromancy: A Response to Mr. Savidis.” Windows on Greece: University of Michigan Department of Modern Greek On-Line Forum-Feb. 2006. http://www.lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/wtgc/c.p.%20cavafyforum
“Following the Recipe: Cavafy and Magical Texts” in “What these Ithacas mean.”: Readings in Cavafy. Athens: Hellenic Literary and Historic Archive, 2002.
“Dünya Güzeli: Cavafy’s Folkloric Odalisque.” Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 26 (2002):219-247.
“Cavafy, Forster, and the Eastern Question.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 19.1 (2001): 61-87.
Scholarly Activities, Awards and Presentations
Research Fellow, Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies: Cavafy Archive, Athens, Greece. Responsible for the compilation and maintenance of the English language Cavafy bibliography for the Official Website of the Cavafy Archive: http://www.cavafy.com/.
Recipient of the Modern Greek Studies Association’s 2007 Edmund Keeley Book Prize (Honorable Mention) for Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E.M. Forster and C.P. Cavafy.
“Performing in Prose: Cavafy’s Peza.”
Modern Greek Studies Association 2007 Symposium
Yale University
October 18-20, 2007.
“Cavafy and English Aestheticism.” Princeton University Department of Comparative Literature, February 16, 2006.
Toronto’s Houses of Worship. Interview on Byzantine Art, WNED/PBS Buffalo—Rogers Television, Toronto, November 2005.
“Byzantine Interiors: Rendering Terrestrial and Celestial Space.” Lecture, Department of Interior Design, Ryerson University, Toronto, September 3, 2003.
“Barbarian Solutions: Cavafy’s Orientalizing Hellenism.” Lecture, Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago, February 17, 2003.
Exhibit Consultant for “Cavafy’s World: Ancient Passions.” Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, Department of Modern Greek Studies, February 2002.
Member of the Modern Language Association
Member of the Modern Greek Studies Association
Courses Taught
ENG 101, 102 Freshman English I, II
ENG 103 Advanced Freshman English
ENG 213 English Literature I
ENG 392 Readings in Postcolonial Literature
ENG 408 Modern Greek Literature in English Translation
ENG 366 Modern British Fiction
ENG 103 Advanced Freshman English (Fall 2008)
ENG 214 English Literature II (Spring 2009)
Honors Seminar: The Literature of Decadence (Spring 2009)