Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys

A Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at the Ohio State University, Gregory Jusdanis is the author of The Poetics of Cavafy, Belated Modernity and Aesthetic Culture, The Necessary Nation, Fiction Agonistes, and A Tremendous Thing. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

Peter Jeffreys is an associate professor of English at Suffolk University in Boston and has written, translated, and edited a number of books about and by Cavafy: Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy; The Forster– Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle; C. P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Works; Reframing Decadence: C. P. Cavafy’s Imaginary Portraits; and Approaches to Teaching the Works of C. P. Cavafy. He is a member of the Cavafy Archive Academic Committee at the Onassis Foundation and has served as an exhibition consultant for the Cavafy House in Alexandria and the Cavafy Archive Building in Athens.