Staff profile

The bulk of my research explores late nineteenth-century decadence, aestheticism, symbolism, and their legacies. I have published and presented widely on topics in the long Fin de siècle, with an emphasis on transnationalism, influence, and comparative poetics. My book, 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), is the first monograph study with an exclusive focus on the poetry of the Decadent movement of the 1890s. It examines the curious productive paradoxical collisions between the immediacy of sensuous experience and artificiality of form, an overarching concept that guides my subsequent research in a variety of areas and emphases.

I have published co-edited essay collections on themes in the fields of decadence and modernism. I have also 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. Published journal articles and chapters in volumes are devoted to such writers as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Symons, Ernest Dowson, and Arthur Machen. I am in the process of completing a co-edited collection of essays on Neo-Victorian Decadence for Brill's Neo-Victorian Series. In connection with this project, I was on the co-organising committee of a study group and a conference on neo-Victorian decadence that was 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, University of London). I am currently working on a book-length study on decadence and science fiction from the late nineteenth to late twentieth century.

I am an Honorary Fellow and teaching associate in the Department of English Studies and an Associate Lecturer in English literature at Newcastle University. I have taught a wide range of modules across all levels of undergraduate study. I have previously taught Translation (MA) at Durham, in the School of Modern Languages & Cultures, supervising successfully 15,000-word projects.

• Decadence and its legacies
• Comparative literature / Translation: symbolism and decadence
• 1890s little magazines
• Fin-de-siècle literature and culture
• Science fiction: esp. SF New Wave
• literature of transgression
• self-reflexive texts / metapoetics

• 2022: Invited seminar talk. ‘Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation.’ Nineteenth Century Research Seminar. Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. Organiser: Professor Helen Small. Monday 7 November 2022. : Invited seminar talk. ‘Exophony at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill, Renée Vivien, and Decadent Translation.’ Nineteenth Century Research Seminar. Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford. Organiser: Professor Helen Small. Monday 7 November 2022. https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/8992799d-f6e4-4ff6-8c42-cb38ad991b80/
• 2022: President’s Panel (BAVS). ‘Exophony and Translation at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill and Renée Vivien.’ President’s Panel: Transnationalism. 2022 BAVS. Moderators: Dinah Birch and Patricia Pulham. University of Birmingham. 1–3 September 2022.: President’s Panel (BAVS). ‘Exophony and Translation at the Fin de Siècle: Stuart Merrill and Renée Vivien.’ President’s Panel: Transnationalism. 2022 BAVS. Moderators: Dinah Birch and Patricia Pulham. University of Birmingham. 1–3 September 2022. https://bavs2022.com/bavs-programme/
• 2021: Co-investigator, ‘Neo-Victorian Decadence’: Co-investigator. ‘Neo-Victorian Decadence’. Joint CUSVE-DRC International Conference. Directors: Jane Desmarais (Goldsmiths, University of London) and Anna Enrichetta Soccio (Università degli Studi “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti-Pescara). Chieti, 26-28 October 2022. Webinar host. Webinar on ‘Neo-Victorian Decadence’. CUSVE-DRC Research Group. 1 April 2022. https://www.dilass.unich.it/cusve-researchgroups
• 2017: Co-organiser, ‘Neo-Victorian Decadences’: ‘Neo-Victorian Decadences’. 8–9 September 2017, Durham University Intn’l Conference, with Joseph Thorne. Keynote speakers: Dr Marie-Luise Kohlke (Swansea) and Dr Kirsten MacLeod (Newcastle) https://neovictoriandecadences.wordpress.com/
• 2017: Editorial Advisory Board Member: Editorial Advisory Board Member for Volupté (Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies)
• 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.
• 2014: Co-organiser, 'Aphoristic Modernity, 1890–1950’: ‘“Perfectly phrased and quite as true”: Aphoristic Modernity, 1890–1950.’ 4 July 2015, University of York, with Michael Shallcross. Plenary speakers: James Williams (York) and Mark Sandy (Durham) https://aphoristicmodernity.wordpress.com/call-for-papers-3/ http://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/node/59750
• 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.
• 2012: Co-organiser, 'Aphoristic Modernity, 1890–1950': ‘“We Speak a Different Tongue”: Maverick Voices and Modernity, 1890–1939’. 5–6 July 2013, Durham University. Intn’l Conference. Principal Co-organiser, with Anthony Patterson, Yoonjoung Choi, and Mark Sandy. Plenary speakers: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths) and Michael O’Neill (Durham) http://www.dur.ac.uk/maverick.voices/ http://readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/tag/maverick-voices-and-modernity/

Authored book

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

Book review

• Boyiopoulos, K. (online). Review of Foteini Lika, Roidis and the Borrowed Muse: British Historiography, Fiction and Satire in Pope Joan. The BARS Review,
• Boyiopoulos, K. (online). How Literature Changes the Way We Think. By Michael Mack. Postgraduate English: A Journal and Forum for Postgraduates in English,
• 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: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 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

Chapter in book

• Boyiopoulos, K. ‘Poems and The Sphinx'. In The Oxford Handbook of Oscar Wilde. Oxford University Press
• 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). Symons, Arthur William (1865–1945). In Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-REM1632-1
• 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. (2023). The Bee and the Butterfly: Translation Practices in Modern Greek Decadence. Modern Philology: Critical and Historical Studies in Literature, Medieval through Contemporary, 121(1), 82-103. https://doi.org/10.1086/725768
• 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: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 2(2), 143-177
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2018). ‘“The Universe”: An Unpublished Sonnet by Arthur Symons’. Volupté: Interdisciplinary Journal of Decadence Studies, 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. (2023). Vincent O’Sullivan (1868-1940). [Y90s Biographies. Yellow Nineties 2.0: https://1890s.ca/biographies/]
• Boyiopoulos, K. (2022). Lionel Johnson (1867–1902). [Y90s Biographies. Yellow Nineties 2.0: https://1890s.ca/johnson_bio/]