::  Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies
::  Office: 638 Clemens Hall
::  Office Hours: Mon & Wed. 10:30 - 11:30
::  Phone: 645-2066, ext. 1099
::  E-mail: kn34@buffalo.edu

Kalliopi Nikolopoulou was born in Greece and educated in the United States and Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Rochester. Before joining the UB faculty, she was the Mellon Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Vanderbilt University, and visiting faculty at the English Department of the University of Cyprus.

Her research and teaching interests focus on philosophical approaches to European modernity (English, French, and German literatures, particularly poetry and poetics), psychoanalysis, and the relationship of the ancients to the moderns (with special emphasis on the genre of tragedy and its importance for philosophical thought from German Idealism to the present).

She has published articles on literature and continental aesthetics, on figures such as Homer, Baudelaire, Henry James, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Adorno and Kant. She is currently working on two book-length projects: the first on the relation of the modern lyric to tragedy and catastrophe, and the second on philosophical misreadings of the tragic.