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
The Erotic Sublime: C.P. Cavafy and the Decadent Tradition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press (forthcoming 2010).

E.M. Forster-Κ.Π. Καβάφης Αλληλογραφία: Φίλοι σε Eλαφρήν Aπόκλιση. Athens: Ikaros Press (forthcoming 2010). 

C.P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Writings. Translated, annotated and introduced by Peter Jeffreys.  Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.  Jointly published as part of the Birmingham Modern Greek Translations Series, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, U.K.        

The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle.  Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2009.

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.  University of North Carolina, Greensboro, 2005.

Saint George’s Greek Orthodox Church: An Architectural and Iconographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press (private printing), 2000. 

Articles
“Performing in Prose: Cavafy’s Πεζά and the Problematics of Style.”  Imagination and Logos: Essays on C.P. Cavafy. Early Modern and Modern Greek Studies.  Ed. Panagiotis Roilos.  Harvard University Press, 2010. 

“’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 214 English Literature II 
ENG 392 Readings in Postcolonial Literature 
ENG 408 Modern Greek Literature 
ENG 366 Modern British Fiction 
ENG H252 Readings in Decadent Literature
SF 189 American Gothic: Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O’Connor and Annie Proulx