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As a UCL Mellon Fellow Dimitris was researching Identities and Culture in Europe with a focus on popular culture and its role in identity formation.

• 2002: PhD in Comparative Liteature, UCL - University of London
  Thesis: Singing Poets: Popular Music and Literature in France and Greece (1945-1975): Reading Brassens, Ferré, Theodorakis and Savvopoulos. [ abstract ]
  Supervisor: Professor Michael Worton.
• 1998: MA in Comparative Literature and Translation Studies, UCL - University of London..
• 1997: Diploma in Music (Flute) Athens' Conservatory.
• 1995: BA in Classics. University of Athens

Grants and Scholarships

• 1997-2001: Greek State Scholarship Foundation Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2001-2002: Leventis Foundation. Scholarship for the completion of the PhD.
• 2000: UCL Graduate School Travel Scholarhip
• 1993-1995: Papadakis Foundation. Undergraduate Scholarhip

Research Interests

• The cultural study of popular music. The relationship between the literary text and popular music of the 20th century. European national song traditions and the role of singer-songwriters. The use of cinema's 'auteur theory' for a suggestion of a 'Song Theory'. National and personal identities as produced within songs.
• The role of popular culture and national traditions in the construction of deviant identities.
• Greece in the crossroads between East and West. Greek culture as a mixture of belated modernism and residual postmodernism.
• The use of music in films from the viewpoint of Film Studies.

Papers

• 29 May 2004.
  Queer Matters interdisciplinary conference, King's College, London
  Greekness and/as Homosexuality: Reviewing a challenge to queer theory
• 22 November 2003
  Instigator and organiser of the International Colloquium: New Perspectives on Cavafy, UCL.
• 18 October 2003
  Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Toronto, Canada
  Mimicry and the Junta: Rereading cultural resistance to the Greek dictatorship
• 19 September 2003.
  International Film Studies Conference, University College, Cork, Ireland
  Opening an Umbrella Term: Meta-musicals
• 4 and 5 July 2003.
  Conference: Mediterranean and Migration.
  Institute of Romance Studies, University of London. School of Advanced Study
  Weaving the narratives of exclusion: K.Giannaris's 'From the Edge of the City' and S.Demetrious' 'May Your Name Be Blessed'.
• 10 February 2003
  Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham.
  Greek literature and popular music 1945-1975: an overview.
• 3 February 2003.
  The Byzantine and Modern Greek Seminar, Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College, London.
  Rebetiko the painting, rebetiko the soul: Manos Hadjidakis, Mikis Theodorakis and the appropriation of rebetika..
• 29 January 2003
  Mellon Interedisciplinary Seminar Series,.UCL.
  Some Wine, Some Sea and My Boyfriend: Bouzouki Music, Ideology and the Greek Cultural Identity.

Publications

• 'Demetrios Capetanakis: A Greek Poet (Coming Out) in England'. (under review)
• "Utopian Structures in A.Fragkias's Loimos". To be published in the Proceedings of the 2nd Conference of European Hellenists (in Greek)
• "Geekness as liminality: Jeffrey Eugenides's Middlesex and Vassilis Alexakis's Les Mots Etrangers" (in process).
• The songwriter as poetry reader: the poem-songs of Georges Brassens and Léo Ferré" (in process)
• "The art of the gesture: Re-reading the 18 Texts", Nea Hestia (Athens), March 2002 .
• "Bandits' Rock, from Katsantones to Savvopoulos. Bandits as Others in texts and songs of the late 20th century". Conference Proceedings in press, Hellenika Grammata, Athens
• "Setting Seferis's poetry to music", in George Seferis: Centenary Celebrations, The Hellenic Foundation for Culture, London, 2000.
• Introductory essay (on the Greek guitarist tradition) published as liner notes of the cd Jorinde, the Acrobat and the Owl (Lyra CD2430)
• Four theatre and dance reviews published in The Stage, London

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