ANTONIS BALASOPOULOS
Undergraduate studies at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki (B.A English Language and Literature 1991). Graduate Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (M.A English 1994; Ph.D English, Minor in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, 1998). He has taught at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2001), the University of Minnesota (1994-97), and the University of California, Santa Cruz (2007). He has held a Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University (2004-05) and has been appointed Institute Faculty at the Dartmouth Institute of American Studies, Dartmouth College (June 2007).
Comparative Utopian studies; literature and culture of US empire; literature, geography and the production of space; critical theory, especially Marxism, postcolonial studies, and theories of the political; visual culture, especially cinema.
BOOKS AND SPECIAL ISSUES:
Antonis Balasopoulos and Stephanos Stephanides, ed. "Comparative Literature and Global Studies: Histories and Trajectories." Gramma: Journal of Theory and Criticism 13 (2005). Special issue. 230 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos, Gesa Mackenthun, Theodora Tsimpouki, ed. Conformism, Non-Conformism and Anti-Conformism in the Culture of the United States. Heidelberg: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2008. 330 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos and Apostolos Lampropoulos, ed. Chores Tēs Theorias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphegematōn. [States of Theory: History and Geography of Critical Narratives]. Athens: Metaichmio, 2009. 583 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos. Through the Loophole: Archive of Elliptical Impulses [Ap' to mati tis velonas: Arheio Elliptikwn Parormisewn]. Athens: Astra, 2011. 69 pages. Reprinted Herakleion: Enantia, 2022.
Antonis Balasopoulos. The Book of Brief Reflections. [To Vivlio ton mikron syllogismon]. Athens: Astra, 2011. 93 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos, ed. Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 3 (2012). Online.
Antonis Balasopoulos, Multiplicities of Zero [Pollaplotites tou midenos]. Thessaloniki: Shakespearikon, 2020. 58 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos and Stella Achilleos, ed. Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Textual Moments series, ed. J.C. Davis and John Morrow, Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 208 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos, White on White [Lefko sto lefko]. Athens: Enypnio, 2021. 102 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos, The Cube and Other Stories [O kuvos kai alles istories]. Athens, 24 Grammata, 2021. 178 pages. State Literature Award for best Short Story/Novella, Republic of Cyprus.
Antonis Balasopoulos, The Book of Creatures [To vivlio ton plasmaton]. Thessaloniki: Shakespearikon, 2021. 68 pages. Shortlisted for State Literature Award for Poetry, Republic of Cyprus.
Antonis Balasopoulos, The Book of Hands [To vivlio ton herion]. Larissa: Thraca, 2023. 64 pages.
Antonis Balasopoulos, ed. A.L. Morton, The English Utopia. Ralahine Classics Series. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023. 302 pages.
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS:
“The Fractured Image: Plato, the Greeks, and the Figure of the Ideal City.” Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice. Ed. Tom Moylan and Michael Griffin. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 117-137.
“‘Utopian and Cynical Elements’: Chaplin, Cinema and Weimar Critical Theory.” Futurescapes: Space in Utopian and Science Fiction Discourses. Ed. Ralph Pordzik. Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2009. 327-258.
“Theoreia, Istoria, Kūriarhia”. Chores Tēs Theorias: Istoria kai Geographia tōn Kritikōn Aphegematōn. Athens: Metaichmio, 2010. 475-516.
“Anti-Utopia and Dystopia: Rethinking the Generic Field” (bilingual text). Utopia Project Archive, 2006-2010. Ed. Vassilis Vlastaras. Athens: School of Fine Arts Publications, 2011. 59-67.
“Varieties of Lacanian Anti-Utopianism”. Spectres of Utopia: Theory, Practice, Conventions. Ed. Artur Blaim and Ludmila Gruszewska-Blaim. Frankfurt-am-Maim: Peter Lang, 2012. 69-80, 272-275.
“Pigs in Heaven? Utopia, Animality and Plato's Hūopolis.” The Epistemology of Utopia: Rhetoric, Theory and Imagination. Ed. Jorge Bastos da Silva. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2013. 8-27.
“Celestial Cities and Rationalist Utopias”. In The Cambridge Companion to the City in Literature. Ed. Kevin McNamara. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 17-30.
“The Negation of Negation: On Demand the Impossible and the Question of Critical Utopia". In Tom Moylan, Demand the Impossible: Science Fiction and the Utopian Imagination, revised edition, Oxford: Peter Lang, 2014. 263-269.
“Conrad, Ideology and Utopia.” Strange Vistas: Perspectives on the Utopian. Ed. Justyna Galant and Marta Komsta. Bern: Peter Lang, Mediated Fictions vol. 16, 2019. 59-77
“Divided Sovereignties: Lenin and Dual Power.” In Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Ed. Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos. Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Gen. ed. J.C. Davis and John Morrow. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 147-154
(with Stella Achilleos) Introduction. In Reading Texts on Sovereignty: Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Ed. Stella Achilleos and Antonis Balasopoulos. Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought. Gen. ed. J.C. Davis and John Morrow. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. 1-8.
“Marxism”. Palgrave Handbook of Utopian and Dystopian Literatures. Ed. Fatima Vieira, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor and Peter Marks. Cham: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2022. 315-332.
“The Dialectics of Revery: Daydreaming and the (Un)Fair City, 1794-1922.” Utopia, Ideology, and Equity in Urban Texts: Fair and Unfair Cities. Ed. Michael Kelly and Mariano Paz. Cham: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. 25-46.
“Editor’s Introduction.” In A.L. Morton, The English Utopia. Ed. Antonis Balasopoulos. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2023. vii-xliii.
“Anti-Anti-Utopia for Post-Socialist Times: Fredric Jameson’s An American Utopia in Perspective”. In Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds: Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State. Ed. Jorge León Casero and Julia Urabayen. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. In press.
“‘People who have come to the end of things’: Ideology, Narrative Form, and the Evolution of Dystopias of the State, 1887-1949”. The Dystopia Reader. Ed. Patricia McManus. Oxford: Peter Lang. Forthcoming.
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS:
“Unworldly Worldliness: America and the Trajectories of Utopian Expansionism.” Utopian Studies 15:2 (Spring 2004): 3-35. Published by the University Press of America.
“‘Suffer a Sea Change’: Spatial Crisis, Maritime Modernity, and the Politics of Utopia.” Cultural Critique 63 (Winter 2006): 122-156. Published by the University of Minnesota Press.
“Nesologies: Island Form and Postcolonial Geopoetics.” Postcolonial Studies 11:1 (2008): 9-26. Published by Routledge.
“Ghosts of the Future: Marxism, Deconstruction, and the Afterlife of Utopia.” Theory & Event 12:3 (2009): 1-19. (Published by the ohns Hopkins University Press.
“The Discreet Charm of the ‘Anarchist Sublime’: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Revisited”. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 3 (2012): 1-23. Stanford University.
Introduction: Intellectuals and the State: Complicities, Confrontations, Ruptures. Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities 3 (2012): 1-34. Stanford University.
“Factories, Utopias, Decoration and Upholstery: On Utopia, Modernism and Everyday Life”. Utopian Studies 25:2 (2014): 268-298. ( Published by Penn State University Press.
“Dark Light: Utopia and the Question of Surplus Population.” Utopian Studies 27:3 (2016): 615-629. Published by Penn State University Press.
“Utopian Studies in Greece Today: A Brief Survey”. Utopian Studies, 27:3 (2016): 441-448. Published by Penn State University Press.
“Repetition: Thinking Between G.W.F. Hegel’s Philosophy of History (1837) and Karl Marx’s The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852)”. Philosophica, 54 (2019): 81-97. Published by the Department of Philosophy, University of Lisbon.
“Crisis, Justice, Messianism: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Critique of Violence’”, Cogito 12:2 (December 2020): 69-89. Published by Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University/Pro Universitaria.
“Hunger, World, the X: On Ghosh and Hillis Miller’s Thinking Literature Across Continents.” Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures 4:2 (December 2020): 57-69. Published by Hunan Normal University Press.
“Georges Sorel and Critical Anti-Utopianism”, Revista Polis 8:4 (September-November 2020): 1-16. Published by Faculty of Political Sciences, Petre Andrei University.
“Fictional Menageries: Writing Animals in the Early Twenty-First Century” Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics, Vol. XI (December 2021): 209-217. Published by Universitatea Petrol-Gaze din Ploieşti.
“The Continuing Adventures of the Dialectic: On Roland Boer’s Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: A Guide for Foreigners”. (Review Essay) World Review of Political Economy 12:3 (2021): 321-347. Published by Pluto Press/Cass.
(with Roland Boer). “Socialism, Communism, and Concrete Marxism”. International Critical Thought 12:4 (2022): 501-516. Published by Routledge.
“The Politics and Aesthetics of Utopian Literature: From the ‘Golden Age’ Myth to the Renaissance”. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Published by Oxford University Press. Published online: 18 October 2023.
“Anti-Utopianism, Social Darwinism, and Self-Preservation: Some Reflections.” Utopian Studies 34:2 (2023): 311-317. Published by Penn State University Press.
“Two Cheers for Blueprints, or, Negative Reasons for Positive Utopianism”. Utopian Studies 34:3 (2023): 489-497. Published by Penn State University Press.
“Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will: A Response on the Past and Future of Utopian Studies”. Utopian Studies 34:3 (2023): 544-549. Published by Penn State University Press.
“Utopia, Modernism, and Failure: On Franz Kafka’s Impossibilities.” Cultural Critique 123 (Spring 2024): 26-51. Published by the University of Minnesota Press.
“Genre History and Ideology in Utopian Literature, 1750-1840.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Published by Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Genre History and Ideology in Utopian Literature of the Late Nineteenth Century: Edward Bellamy and William Morris.” Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature. Published by Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.
“Early Modern Utopian Novums: On the Politics and Poetics of Gestating the New”. Utopian Studies. Published by Penn State University Press. Forthcoming.
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