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Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos, PhD

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Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos PhD

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Barbelin 112M

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610-660-1852
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Dr. Nikoloutsos' research interests are diverse and include celluloid recreations of ancient warfare, Roman homosexuality, Greek history in modern popular culture, and the afterlife of classical antiquity in Latin America. He has published numerous articles, essays, and volumes, including Ancient Greek Women in Film (Oxford University Press, 2013), Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020), and Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film (Brill, 2023). At Saint Joseph's University, he teaches a variety of upper-division courses, such as HIS 306 Sports and Spectacles in the Classical World, HIS 307 Greece and Rome in the Cinema, HIS 308 Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity, and HIS 472 Greek and Roman Slavery. 

Prior to joining the faculty of Saint Joseph’s University in 2010, Dr. Nikoloutsos held non-tenure-track positions at the University of Liverpool, Florida Atlantic University, and Berea College. He has lectured widely in South America, including the University of Buenos Aires (appointment under the aegis of the Greek Embassy in Argentina and the Hellenic Cultural Association Nostos), the Federal University of Paraná (Curitiba), the State University of Campinas, and in Spring 2016 as Onassis Foundation (USA) Senior Visiting Scholar at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Belo Horizonte), the University of Brasilia, the Federal University of Goiás (Goiânia), and the Federal University of Ceará (Fortaleza). 

In Spring 2019, Dr. Nikoloutsos was awarded the prestigious Onassis Foundation Fellowship for International Scholars to conduct research in Greece. During the tenure of this fellowship, he was invited to teach at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Department of Philology). Other honors include the Paul Rehak Prize from the Lambda Classical Caucus (2008) and twice the Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship from Harvard University (AY 2012-2013 and AY 2024-2025). At Saint Joseph's University, Dr. Nikoloutsos has been twice awarded the Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research (AY 2014-2015 and 2023-2024) and a Faculty Merit Award for Research (2014 and 2023). 

Currently, Dr. Nikoloutsos serves as the Program Coordinator of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. 

    • PhD, Classics, University of Birmingham (U.K.)
    • MSc, Classics, University of Edinburgh (U.K.)
    • BA, Classics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)

  • Edited Volumes & Special Issues

    Refereed Articles & Book Chapters

    • "Mocking the Hollywood Epic Canon: Parodies of the Classical World from Latin American Cinema's Studio Era." In Reception Studies: New Challenges in a Changing World. Volume 9 in Trends in Classics - Pathways of Reception. Ed. Anastasia Bakogianni and Luis Unceta Gómez. Berlin: De Gruyter. 2024. 169-191. 
    • "Richard Burton in Alexander the Great (1956) and the Mechanisms of Hollywood Stardom: Fashioning an Ancient Military Icon in Post-WWII American Cinema." In Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film. Ed. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. Leiden: Brill. 2023. 131-163.
    • "Swords Made of Rubber: Classical Antiquity through the Lens of War." In Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Warfare on Film. Ed. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. Leiden: Brill. 2023. 3-37.
    • "From Epic to Tragedy: Theatre and Politics in Juan Cruz Varela’s Dido.” In Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage. Ed. Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. 19-32.
    • “Staging the European Classical in ‘Latin’ America: An Introduction” (co-authored with Rosa Andújar). In Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage. Ed. Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 2020. 1-18.
    • "Classical Tradition in Brazil: Translation, Rewriting, and Reception” (co-authored with Rodrigo Tadeu Gonçalves)." Reception of Classics in Modern Literatures. Special issue of Caletroscópio 6.1 (2018): 11-20.
    • “The Resurgence of the Epics in the 1950s: Classical Antiquity in Postwar Hollywood.” In A Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome on Screen. Ed. Arthur J. Pomeroy. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 2017. 91-117.
    • “Sophocles’ Antigone” (co-authored with Rosa Andújar). In Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal: 20th and 21st Century Rewritings of the Antigone Myth. Ed. Carlos Morais, Lorna Hardwick, and Maria de Fátima Silva. Brill: Leiden. 2017. 13-26.
    • “Helen’s Semiotic Body: Ancient and Modern Representations.” Eros e Helena, de Tróia a Vila Rica. Special Issue of Nuntius Antiquus 12.1 (2016): 187-213.
    • "From Text to Screen: Celluloid Helens and Female Stardom in the 1950s." The Cambridge Classical Journal 61 (2015): 70-90.
    • “Cubanizing Greek Drama: José Triana’s Medea in the Mirror (1960).” In Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas. Ed. †Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2015. 333-358.
    • “Introduction.” In Ancient Greek Women in Film. Ed. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. 1-15.
    • “Between Family and the Nation: Gorgo in the Cinema.” In Ancient Greek Women in Film. Ed. Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2013. 255-278.
    • “Reviving the Past: Cinematic History and Popular Memory in The 300 Spartans (1962).” Classical World 106.2 (2013): 261-283.
    • “Introduction.” Reception of Greek and Roman Drama in Latin America. Special issue of Romance Quarterly 59.1 (2012): 1-5.
    • “Seneca in Cuba: Gender, Race, and the Revolution in José Triana’s Medea en el espejo.” Reception of Greek and Roman Drama in Latin America. Special issue of Romance Quarterly 59.1 (2012): 19-35.
    • “From Tomb to Womb: Tibullus 1.1 and the Discourse of Masculinity in Post-Civil War Rome.” Scholia 20 (2011): 52-71.
    • “The Boy as Metaphor: The Hermeneutics of Homoerotic Desire in Tibullus 1.9.” Helios 38.1 (2011): 27-57.
    • “Appropriating Greek Myth: Female Sacrifice and Argentine Patriarchal Society in Inés de Oliveira Cézar’s Extranjera.” Classical Receptions Journal 2.1 (2010): 92-113.
    • “The Alexander Bromance: Male Desire and Gender Fluidity in Oliver Stone’s Historical Epic.” Queer Icons from Greece and Rome. Special issue of Helios 35.2 (2008): 223-251.
    • “Beyond Sex: The Poetics and Politics of Pederasty in Tibullus 1.4.” Phoenix 61.1-2 (2007): 55-82.
    • Sabbatical Leave. Saint Joseph's University. Spring 2025. 
    • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship. Harvard University. AY 2024-2025.
    • Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research. Saint Joseph's University. AY 2023-2024.
    • Resource Grant. The Classical Association of the Atlantic States. CY 2023. 
    • Faculty Merit Award for Research. Saint Joseph's University. Spring 2023. 
    • Research Grant. Saint Joseph's University. Summer 2020.
    • Onassis Foundation (Greece) Fellowship for International Scholars (Category D). Spring 2019.
    • Sabbatical Leave. Saint Joseph's University. AY 2017-2018. 
    • Onassis Foundation (USA) Senior Visiting Scholar. Spring 2016.
    • Michael J. Morris Grant for Scholarly Research. Saint Joseph's University. AY 2014-2015.
    • Gilbert Murray Trust (U.K.): Classical Award. Spring 2014.
    • Faculty Merit Award for Research. Saint Joseph's University. Spring 2014.
    • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship. Harvard University. AY 2012-2013.
    • Research Grant. Saint Joseph’s University. Summer 2011.
    • 2008 Paul Rehak Prize: Awarded by the Lambda Classical Caucus for “Beyond Sex: The Poetics and Politics of Pederasty in Tibullus 1.4.” Phoenix 61.1-2 (2007): 55-82.

  • Dr. Nikoloutsos’ research interest include:

    • Warfare in the ancient Mediterranean (specialization: Macedonian military history)
    • Ancient history on film (specialization: post-WWII Hollywood & Italian productions)
    • Classical tradition in Latin America (specialization: Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba)
    • Roman social history (specialization: homoeroticism and politics in the late Republic)