Prof. Peter Jeffreys
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Suffolk University
Degrees
PhD, English Literature, University of Toronto
MA, English Literature, Boston College
BA, Greek Studies, Hellenic College
Principal Publications
Books
E.M. Forster-Κ.Π. Καβάφης Αλληλογραφία: Φίλοι σε Eλαφρήν
Aπόκλιση. Athens: Ikaros Press (forthcoming 2010).
C.P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Works. Translated, annotated
and introduced by Peter Jeffreys. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan
Press, 2010. Jointly published as part of the Birmingham Modern
Greek Translations Series, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and
Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, U.K.
The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle. Cairo:
American University in Cairo Press, 2009.
Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings
of E.M. Forster and C P. Cavafy. ELT Press of English
Literature in Transition, 1880-1920. University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, 2005. (Recipient of the Modern Greek Studies
Association’s 2007 Edmund Keeley Book Prize/Honorable Mention)
Saint George’s Greek Orthodox Church: An Architectural and
Iconographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press
(private printing), 2000.
Articles
“Performing in Prose: Cavafy’s Πεζά and the Problematics of Style.” Imagination
and Logos: Essays on C.P.Cavafy. Harvard Early Modern and Modern
Greek Studies. Ed. Panagiotis Roilos. Harvard University
Press, 2010.
“’Aesthetic to the point of affliction’: Cavafy and English Aestheticism.” Journal
of Modern Greek Studies 24.1 (2006): 57-89.
“Cavafian Catoptromancy: A Response to Mr. Savidis.” Windows
on Greece: University of Michigan Department of Modern Greek On-Line Forum-Feb. 2006.
“Following the Recipe: Cavafy and Magical Texts” in “What
these Ithacas mean.”: Readings in Cavafy. Athens: Hellenic
Literary and Historic Archive, 2002.
“Dünya Güzeli: Cavafy’s Folkloric Odalisque.” Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies 26 (2002):219-247.
“Cavafy, Forster, and the Eastern Question.” Journal of Modern
Greek Studies 19.1 (2001): 61-87.