Peter Jeffreys, PhD

Education

• PhD, University of Toronto
• MA, Boston College
• BA, Hellenic College

Research Interests

• British Modernism
• The Bloomsbury Group
• Literary Decadence
• British Aestheticism
• Modern Greek Literature

Publications

Books

• Constantine Cavafy: A New Biography. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. New York: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (2025).
• Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. London: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster UK Ltd (2025).
• Κωνσταντίνος Καβαφης: Ο Ανθρωπος και ο Ποιητής. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. Athens: Metaixmio Press (2025).
• Approaches to Teaching the Works of C.P. Cavafy. Co-edited with Demetres Tryphonopoulos. Approaches to Teaching World Literature Series. Modern Language Association of America (2025).
• Στο Kάδρο της Παρακμής: Φανταστικά Πορτραίτα του Κ.Π. Καβάφη. Heraklion: Crete University Press (2024).
• Reframing Decadence: C.P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2015.

Articles, Essays, and Poems

• «Ενώπιον του Αγάλματος του Καβάφη.» ΧΑΡΤΗΣ. Αύγουστος 2026.
• “Before the Statue of Cavafy.”(Poem). Mediterranean Poetry. July 2026.
• “America (Greek) America: A Reflection.” Ergon: Greek /American Transnational Arts and Letters. Spring 2026.
• “Gothic ‘In Broad Daylight’: Cavafy’s Debt to Poe.” Cavafy as World Literature. Edited by Takis Kayalis and Vicente Fernández González. London: Bloomsbury Academic (2025).
• “Carré Anglais.” (Poem). Mediterranean Poetry. November 2023
• “Σεραφείμ.” (Poem). ΧΑΡΤΗΣ. Απρίλιος 2021. Translated by George Veis.
• “Cavafy’s Levant: Commerce, Culture and Mimicry in the Early Life of the Poet.” Boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture. May 2021.
• “The Spoils of Ibrahim.” (Poem). Mediterranean Poetry. December 2020.
• “St. Sophia’s Seraphim.” (Poem). The National Herald. July 17, 2020.
• "Solos." (Poem). Mediterranean Poetry. May 2019.
• “Greek Necropolis.” (Poem). C.P. Cavafy Forum, University of Michigan. Fall 2018. Department of Classical Studies and Modern Greek.
• “Arrangement in Black and Gray: After Whistler.” (Poem). Ergon: Greek American Transnational Arts and Letters. Fall 2017.

Additional publications, work and lectures [PDF]

Website

• The Soliotis Project
• The Soliotis Project - English

Awards and Honors

• International Hellenic Prize (2026)
• Anglo-Hellenic League Runciman Award Shortlist (2026)
  Alexandrian Sphinx: The Hidden Life of Constantine Cavafy. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. London: Summit Books/Simon & Schuster UK Ltd (2025).
• National Book Critics Circle Award – Nominee (2025)
  Constantine Cavafy—A New Biography. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. 2025.
• Academy of Athens (2025)
  Στο κάδρο της Παρακμής: Φανταστικά πορτραίτα του Κ.Π. Καβάφη. Heraklion, Crete: Crete University Press (2024).
  Κωνσταντίνος Καβαφης: Ο Ανθρωπος και ο Ποιητής. Co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis. Athens: Metaixmio Press (2025).
• Greek Ministry of Culture National Translation Award (2012)
  C.P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Works. Translated, annotated and introduced by Peter Jeffreys. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press (2010).
• Edmund Keeley Book Prize (Honorable Mention) (2007)
  Modern Greek Studies Association
  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, Greensboro: ELT Press (2005).

Professional Activities

• Member of the Cavafy Academic Committee (2023-2026)
  Cavafy Archive, Onassis Foundation, Athens, Greece
• Co-Convener and Co-Organizer: International Cavafy Summer School
  “Cavafy Across the Disciplines and Arts”
  Onassis Foundation Cavafy Archive
  Athens, July 3-8, 2023.
• Member of the Editorial Board (2013-2016)
  Journal of Modern Greek Studies
• Member of the Executive Board, 2011-2014
  Modern Greek Studies Association
• Associate Editor (Arts & Humanities), 2010-2012
  Journal of Modern Greek Studies