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Dr Ioannis Markopoulos
Lecturer
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Lecturer |
| Academic Qualifications |
PhD in Comparative Literature Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV Escola de Cinema de Barcelona, Spain MA in Comparative Literature Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece BA in Philology
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
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| imarkopoulos@york.citycollege.eu |
Yannis Markopoulos holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki (AUTh), an MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV from the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona, and a BA in Philology from AUTh. He has held visiting research positions at King’s College London and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and has worked as a screenwriter for film production companies in Barcelona and Athens. Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has presented at numerous conferences and published in academic journals and conference proceedings. He is also the co-editor of the collective volume Fantastic fiction today: theoretical (re)approaches and comparative readings (2026) and the anthology of contemporary Spanish short fiction Rewriting the Monster (2026). His research interests include fantastic fiction, screenwriting and the intersections between literature and cinema.
Teaching
BA in English Language, Linguistics and Literature
- Introduction to Literature
- Understanding Film
Research Interests
- Theories and literature of the fantastic
- Screenwriting for film and TV
- Intersections between literature and cinema
- Coming-of-age literature and film
Publications
Selected pubications
Naoum, I., Rassidakis, A., García Marín, Á., Markopoulos, Y., Georgoula, M. and Lygouris, P. (Εds.). (2026). Fantastic fiction today: theoretical (re)approaches and comparative readings. Thessaloniki: Laboratory of Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Naoum, I. and Markopoulos, Y. (2026). The realism of a larger reality: uncanny topologies and alternative worlds in fantastic fiction. In Naoum, I., Rassidakis, A., García Marín, Á., Markopoulos, Y., Georgoula, M. and Lygouris, P. (Eds.). Fantastic fiction today: theoretical (re)approaches and comparative readings. Thessaloniki: Laboratory of Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, pp. 12-17.
Roas, D. and Markopoulos, Y. (Eds.). (2026). Επανεγγραφές του τέρατος: aνθολογία ισπανόγλωσσου διηγήματος [Rewriting the monster: an anthology of Spanish short story]. Translated by N. Angeli and T. Apostolaki. Patras: Perikeimeno.
Markopoulos, Y. (2025). Les enfants du paradis perdu: ταινίες ενηλικίωσης νέων κινηματογραφιστ(ρι)ών της Θεσσαλονίκης [Les enfants du paradis perdu: coming-of-age films by young filmmakers from Thessaloniki] Cahiers Balkaniques, Hors Série, 2025. Available at: doi.org/10.4000/15f5w.
Markopoulos, Y. (2024). Entre lo fantástico y la ciencia ficción: El caso del cuento neogriego “Ονειροπόλος” (Soñador) de Kostas Karyotakis (con la traducción del cuento) Hélice, 9 (2), pp. 76–86. Available at: https://www.revistahelice.com/en/book/en-helice-35/.
Other Information
Selected conference papers
Markopoulos, Y. (2026). Microfiction and the poetics of the void: Poe, Ligotti, Seabrook. Unpublished paper presented at ‘Microfiction and Intertextuality’. 13th International Conference on Microfiction, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. 7–9 October 2026. Thessaloniki.
Markopoulos, Y. (2025). Όνειρα στο συρτάρι: Η περίπτωση του μη κινηματογραφημένου σεναρίου [Dreams in the drawer: the case of the unproduced screenplay]. Unpublished paper presented at ‘Dream in literature: interdisciplinary and interartistic approaches’. International Interdepartmental Conference, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA). 11–13 December 2025. Athens.
Markopoulos, Y. (2022). On madness and the fantastic: from censoring the impossible to subverting the real. Unpublished paper presented at ‘Visiones de lo fantástico: Fantastic and Ideology’. 5th International Conference, Università degli Studi di Torino. 29–30 June and 1 July 2022. Torino.
Markopoulos, Y. (2022) The filter, the pendulum, and the mirror: remapping modern Greek fantastic literature. Unpublished paper presented at ‘Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies Fourteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference’. 6 May 2022. Princeton Athens Center, Athens.
Organisation of academic events
1st Summer School ‘The fantastic in focus: cultural theory, criticism, creative writing’. 29 June–4 July 2026. Center for Education and Lifelong Learning, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- Scientific Coordinator
International Academic Meeting ‘Fantastic fiction today: theoretical (re)approaches and comparative readings’. 11–12 October 2024. Laboratory of Comparative Literature, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
- Member of the Scientific and Organising Committee
Contact
imarkopoulos@yorkeuropecampus.eu
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