Chloe Tsolakoglou

Candidate statement

Chloe Tsolakoglou (MFA, MA, MPhil) is a poet, translator, and scholar based in New York City. Originally from Athens, she is a fourth-year doctoral candidate in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where she has also completed certificates in Comparative Literature and Psychoanalytic Studies. Her dissertation, Soma and Riotous Archē: The Role of the Queer Body in Revolutions, examines how the body functions as a site of political struggle and a mode of theorizing revolution across literary and political archives. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Diacritics, Chiasma, Ergon, and elsewhere. She recently translated Marios Chakkas’ The Commune (dist. MIT Press), which brings an important modern Greek text to new audiences. As a scholar working between Greek and international literary traditions, she is committed to strengthening connections across disciplines and supporting emerging scholars in Modern Greek Studies. She would be honored to serve as Graduate Representative and to advocate for graduate students while helping expand MGSA’s intellectual and collaborative networks.