Vrasidas Karalis

Biography

Vrasidas Karalis holds the Chair of Sir Nicholas Laurantos in Modern Greek and Byzantine Studies at the University of Sydney. His main areas of research are Greek studies, Film Studies, Greek-Australian Literature, Byzantine Culture and Theology, and the work of Patrick White. His main publications in English include, A History of Greek Cinema (Continuum 2012), Realism in Greek Cinema (I.B. Tauris, 2017), The Cinematic Language of Theo Angelopoulos, (Berhghan Press, 2021), Theo Angelopoulos: Filmmaker and Philosopher (Palgrave, 2023), Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris (Brandl & Sclesinger, 2007), The Demons of Athens (Brandl & Schlesinger, 2013), Reflections on Presence (re.Press, 2016) and The Glebe Point Road Blues (Brandl & Sclesinger, 2021). His personal memoir Farewell to Robert (Sydney 2023) has been translated into Greek and was nominated for best translation state awards.

He has translated Patrick White’s Voss and The Vivisector, as well as well Michael Dransfield’s and Martin Johnston’s poems into Greek. He has also edited volumes on Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt and Cornelius Castoriadis. He has been, until recently, the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association of Australian and New Zealand. He is the editor of Modern Greek Studies (Australian and New Zealand) and on the board of four academic and literary journals. He is currently working on a book length study on the concept of the sublime as expressed and visualised in contemporary cinema.