Staff profile

I am an Honorary Fellow and Teaching Associate in the Department of English Studies. I also teach English as an Associate Lecturer at Newcastle University. I have previously taught Translation (MA) at Durham, in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures. At Department of English Studies, in addition to Level 1 modules, I have taught on a range of English Literature modules, including 'Post-war Fiction and Poetry' (L3), 'Literature of the Modern Period' (L2), 'Victorian Literature' (L2), and 'Literature of the Romantic Period' (L2).

I specialise in the literature and culture of Decadence and Aestheticism and have published widely on on fin-de-siècle themes. I am the author of The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson (Edinburgh University Press, 2015), partly funded by the Friends of Princeton University Library Research Grant (FPUL). I have co-edited The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), a book that showcases the instrumental role of little magazines in the shaping of the short story form. I co-edited, with Mark Sandy, the essay collection Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914 (Ashgate, 2015). I have also co-edited volumes on aspects of modernism and modernity: Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences (Routledge, 2019) and Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present (Brill, 2020). Published journal articles and chapters in volumes are devoted to such authors as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and Arthur Machen.

I am currently working, among other things, on a collection of essays, with Joseph Thorne, on Neo-Victorian Decadence, to appear in Brill's Neo-Victorian Series. In connection with this project, I am on the co-organising committee of a study group and a conference on neo-Victorian decadence to be held in October 2022 in Pescara, hosted by the Centre of Victorian and Edwardian Studies (CUSVE) at the D'Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara and the Decadence Research Centre (Goldsmiths). A monograph on science fiction and decadence is in preparation. 

• Aestheticism and Decadence
• Legacies of decadence
• Fin-de-siècle literature and culture
• Comparative literature / Translation
• 1890s little magazines
• Science fiction
• metatextuality / metapoetics

• 2016:

  Keynote talk. ‘Tropes of Tainted Medievalism: Ernest Dowson’s Recasting of Fin’Amor.’ ‘Ernest Dowson (1867–1900): Poet, Translator, Novelist.’ Goldsmiths, University of London. 15 April 2016.

  : Keynote talk. ‘Tropes of Tainted Medievalism: Ernest Dowson’s Recasting of Fin’Amor.’ ‘Ernest Dowson (1867–1900): Poet, Translator, Novelist.’ Goldsmiths, University of London. 15 April 2016.
• 2015:

  Invited talk. ‘Raconteur and Racketeer: Oscar Wilde and the Confidence Trick.’ Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History. Liverpool John Moores University. 24 November 2015.

  : Invited talk. ‘Raconteur and Racketeer: Oscar Wilde and the Confidence Trick.’ Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History. Liverpool John Moores University. 24 November 2015.
• 2013:

  Princeton University Library Research Grant. The Friends of Princeton University Library (FPUL). Firestone Library. Value: $2,500.00.

  : Princeton University Library Research Grant. The Friends of Princeton University Library (FPUL). Firestone Library. Value: $2,500.00.

Authored book

• Boyiopoulos, K. (2015). The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons and Dowson. Edinburgh University Press

Book review

• Boyiopoulos, K. (2020). The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World. By Catherine Nixey. Literature and Theology, 34(4), 510-511
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2020). Oscar: A Life. By Matthew Sturgis. Studies in Walter Pater and aestheticism, 5, 133-136
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2019). Algernon Charles Swinburne. Ed. by Francis O'Gorman; Algernon Charles Swinburne: Unofficial Laureate. Ed. by Catherine Maxwell and Stefano Evangelista. Notes & Queries, 66(3), 481-483
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2019). Decadence: A Very Short Introduction. By David Weir. Volupté (London), 2(1), 146-151
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). Scents and Sensibility: Perfume in Victorian Literary Culture. By Catherine Maxwell. The Review of English Studies, 69(291), 801-803
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). Steampunk and Nineteenth-Century Digital Humanities: Literary Retrofuturisms, Media Archaeologies, Alternate Histories. By Roger Whitson. BARS bulletin & review, 52,
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2013). Decadence: An Annotated Anthology. By Jane Desmarais and Chris Baldick. European English messenger, 22(1), 93-94
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2013). How Literature Changes the Way We Think. By Michael Mack. Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English,

Chapter in book

• Boyiopoulos, K. (2021). Lucian’s Ornaments in Jade: Symbolist Decadence in Arthur Machen’s Prose Poetry. In A. Sanna (Ed.), Arthur Machen: Critical Essays (151-169). Lexington Books
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2021). The Decadent Short Story: Forms of the Morbid. In J. Desmarais, & D. Weir (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Decadence (301-317). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190066956.013.17
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2020). ‘Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson’. In K. Boyiopoulos, & M. Shallcross (Eds.), Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present (73-93). Brill Academic Publishers
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2019). 'Modernistic shone the lamplight’: Arthur Symons among the Moderns. In K. Boyiopoulos, A. Patterson, & M. Sandy (Eds.), Literary and cultural alternatives to Modernism : unsettling presences (101-117). Routledge
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2019). ‘Tainted Medievalism: Ernest Dowson and Courtly Love'. In A. Conde, & J. Gosling (Eds.), In Cynara’s Shadow: Collected Essays on Ernest Dowson (25-56). Peter Lang
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). Death by Unrequited Eros: Salome, Hippolytus, and Wilde's Inversion of Tragedy. In K. Riley, A. Blanshard, & I. Manny (Eds.), Oscar Wilde and Classical Antiquity (141-158). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.001.0001
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). ‘Eros/Threnos: Mournful Necrophilia in Wilde and Fernando Pessoa’s “Antinous”’. In M. F. Davis, & P. Dierkes-Thrun (Eds.), Wilde’s Other Worlds. Routledge
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2017). ‘“Limbo’s Dreary Scope”: Thomson’s The City of Dreadful Night and the Fin-de-siècle Necropolis’. In J. Lamperez, & J. Alexandra McGhee (Eds.), Urban Monstrosities: Perversity and Upheaval in the Unreal City (28-45). Cambridge Scholars Publishing
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2017). ‘“Use my body like the pages of a book”: Decadence and the Eroticised Text’. In J. Desmarais, & A. Condé (Eds.), Decadence and the Senses. Legenda
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2015). ‘“Circe’s Wine”: Symons, Dowson, and Keats’s Intoxications’. In K. Boyiopoulos, & M. Sandy (Eds.), Decadent Romanticism. Ashgate Publishing

Edited book

• Boyiopoulos, K., & Shallcross, M. (Eds.). (2019). Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present. Brill Academic Publishers
• Boyiopoulos, K., Patterson, A., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2019). Literary and Cultural Alternatives to Modernism: Unsettling Presences. Routledge
• Boyiopoulos, K., & Sandy, M. (Eds.). (2015). Decadent Romanticism: 1780-1914. Ashgate Publishing
• Boyiopoulos, K., Choi, Y., & Tildesley, M. B. (Eds.). (2014). The Decadent Short Story: An Annotated Anthology. Edinburgh University Press

Journal Article

• Boyiopoulos, K. (2021). Oscar Wilde and the Confidence Trick. Journal of Victorian Culture, 26(4), 596-610
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2019). Decadence and the Necrophilic Intertext of Film Noir: Nikos Nikolaidis’ Singapore Sling. Volupté (London), 2(2), 143-177
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). ‘“The Universe”: An Unpublished Sonnet by Arthur Symons’. Volupté (London), 1(1), 89-94
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2014). Simulation in The Picture of Dorian Gray: Echoing Hamlet, Anticipating Baudrillard, and the Comparative. Comparative Critical Studies, 11(1), 7-27
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2013). ‘“The Serried Maze”: Terrain, Consciousness and Textuality in Machen’s The Hill of Dreams’. Victoriographies, 3(1), 46-63
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2012). ‘The Darkening of the Mirror: C. P. Cavafy’s Variations on The Picture of Dorian Gray’. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 30(1), 21-43
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2011). ‘“Jeweled Style”: Autonomous Artificiality as Gemstone Text-ure in Wilde’s The Sphinx’
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2010). ‘“Esoteric Elements”: The Judeo-Christian Scheme in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan’. Neophilologus, 94, 363-374

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Boyiopoulos, K. (2022). Lionel Johnson (1867–1902). [[Media unknown]]
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2017). ‘Symons, Arthur William (1865–1945)’. [[Media unknown]]