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Dr Eleni Kefala, Lecturer

Dr Eleni Kefala Contact Details

ek30@st-andrews.ac.uk
Phone: 01334 463655
Office: Quad 27

Full research profile

Research and Teaching

Eleni Kefala's research focuses on twentieth-century Argentine literature and culture. She has published widely on the work of J. L. Borges and Ricardo Piglia, as well as on other authors from Latin America. Her 2007 monograph breaks new ground, studying postmodernity in two countries never before studied comparatively: Argentina and Greece. She is particularly interested in issues of cultural nationalism, postcolonial and decolonial thinking, and urban modernity. She teaches courses on areas from the historical avant-garde in the Southern Cone to representations of the urban in Argentine literature, art and film, and issues of national identity at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She also contributes to all levels of undergraduate co-taught courses, offering classes on J. L. Borges, Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Alejo Carpentier, Juan Rulfo, Ricardo Piglia and Cristina Peri Rossi.

Publications

Negotiating Difference in the Hispanic World: From Conquest to Globalisation
Kefala, E. (ed.) 2011 Oxford: Blackwell Publishing . (BLAR Book Series).
Research output : Book/Report Book

Peripheral (Post) Modernity: The Syncretist Aesthetics of Borges, Piglia, Kalokyris, Kyriakidis
Kefala, E. 2007 Peter Lang . 303 p.
Research output : Book/Report Book

 

Argentina
Kefala, E. & Marshall, B. (ed.) 2005 In: France and the Americas: Culture, Politics and History: A Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia. Oxford and Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO , Vol. 1
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

"Borges and Greece: Syncretism, Hybridity, and Irreverence in the Periphery" in Antes y Después del Quixote
Kefala, E. , Archer, R. , Astvaldsson, V. , Boyd, S. & Thompson, M. 2005 In: Antes y después del "Quijote": en el cincuentenario de la Asociación de Hispanistas de Gran Bretaña e Irlanda . Valencia, p. 289-298.
Research output : Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding Chapter

 

“La gran América Ibérica:” humanismo y utopía en los años veinte – el caso de Xul Solar
Kefala, E. 31-Jan-2013 In : Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos . 36 , 3
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Xul Solar, The Reluctant Utopian
Kefala, E. 2012 In : Bulletin of Spanish Studies . 89 , 2 , p. 253-279.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Borges and Nationalism: Urban Myth and Nation-Dreaming in the 1920s
Kefala, E. 2011 In : Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies . 17 , 1 , p. 33-58.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

La dialéctica de herejía y autoridad en Borges y Carpentier
Kefala, E. 2010 In : Revista Bimestre Cubana . CVIII , 33
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Ο Αργεντινός πεζογράφος Ρικάρδο Πίγλια
Kefala, E. 2009 In : Planodion . 11 , 47 , p. 562-573.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Diez Preguntas a Noé Jitrik [Interview]
Kefala, E. Jan-2008 In : Revista Iberoamericana . 74 , 222 , p. 263-272.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The Impossibility of Hupar in Borges and Bioy Casares
Kefala, E. Jun-2007 In : Bulletin of Hispanic Studies, Liverpool . 84 , 3 , p. 367-384. 18 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

The Dialectics of Heresy and Authority in Borges and Carpentier
Kefala, E. Mar-2007 In : MLN . 122 , 2 , p. 342-349. 8 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Hybrid Modernisms in Greece and Argentina: The Case of Cavafy, Borges, Kalokyris, and Kyriakidis
Kefala, E. Mar-2006 In : Comparative Literature . 58 , 2 , p. 113-127. 15 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

'Formas breves’ y ‘nudos blancos’: espacios poscontemporáneos de condensación (Trad. de María Victoria Suárez)
Kefala, E. Sep-2005 In : La Pecera . 9 , p. 92-97.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Kalokyris and Borges: A Study of their Syncretist Aesthetics
Kefala, E. May-2005 In : Journal of Modern Greek Studies . 23 , 1 , p. 65-96. 32 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Ricardo Piglia and the Syncretist Machine: 'Moral Stories' in the Postcontemporary Wor(l)d
Kefala, E. Mar-2005 In : Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos . 29 , 3 , p. 585-604.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Falsification, Robberies, and Irreverence in the Periphery: The Case of Borges and Kyriakidis
Kefala, E. 2005 In : Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism . 13 , p. 165-182.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Mouseion : The Counter-Institutional Agent of the Literary Utopias of Ricardo Piglia and Dimitris Kalokyris
Kefala, E. Jul-2004 In : Modern Language Review . 99 , 3 , p. 711-726. 16 p.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Borges and Narrative Economy: Conservative Formalism or Subversion of Signification?
Kefala, E. 2004 In : Variaciones Borges . 18 , p. 219-228.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Η (µυθ)ιστορία του σύµπαντος: Αριστοτέλης, Μπόρχες, Καλοκύρης
Kefala, E. 2003 In : Porphyras . 109 , p. 383-391.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Aristotle, Borges, Kalokyris: The Universe of the Poetics and the Poetics of the Universe
Kefala, E. 2003 In : Variaciones Borges . 16 , p. 97-108.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Castellanos/Δηµουλά: Παράλληλες ποιητικές
Kefala, E. 1999 In : Mikrofilologika . 5 , p. 35-40.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

Ο "Ερωτικός λόγος" του Σεφέρη: µια ανάγνωση
Kefala, E. 1998 In : Nea Epochi . 248 , p. 32-39.
Research output : Contribution to journal Article

 

Special issue on Ricardo Piglia (it includes an introduction, translations of the short stories 'Los nudos blancos', 'La isla', 'La loca y el relato del crimen', and the essays 'El último cuento de Borges' and 'Tesis sobre el cuento', an interview and a biblio-biographical note).
Kefala, E. Dec-2009 In : Planodion . 11 , 47 , p. 561-621.
Research output : Contribution to journal Special issue

Translation of poems by Rosario Castellanos, Alejandra Pizarnik and Cristina Peri Rossi into Greek.
Kefala, E. & Katsouri, D. (ed.) Dec-2008
Research output : Other contribution

Σε πρώτο πρόσωπο: Συνέντευξη µε τον Δηµήτρη Καλοκύρη [Interview]
Kefala, E. 2003 Diavazo
Research output : Other contribution