Christos Hadjiyiannis

Candidate statement

I am an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus and Scientific Project Manager of a large, EU-funded project investigating the many afterlives of medieval arts and rituals, including in modern literature. I was previously Research Fellow in English Literature at Wolfson College, Oxford and Fulbright Visiting Scholar at UT Austin and the Harry Ransom Research Center. My first book, Conservative Modernists (CUP, 2018), examined the different - sometimes surprising, sometimes contradictory - ways in which early modernist poetics are imbricated with Tory language and ideology. My current project, provisionally entitled Modern Martyrs, mounts the first examination of female martyrdom in British and North American modern literature from 1900 to date in the light of late antique and Byzantine hagiographical texts (written in Greek or Latin and dating from 100CE to 1500CE) that thematise the suffering of Christian women. I have published widely on modernism and, with Rachel Potter, I am editing The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature & Politics. I have organised several conferences and workshops and I am committed to helping the MSA in its mission to include in its workings and activities modernists living and working outside the centre. https://netmar.cy/about/people/dr-christos-hadjiyiannis/