Dr Ioannis Markopoulos

Yannis Markopoulos holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), an MA in Screenwriting for Film and TV from the Escola de Cinema de Barcelona, and a BA in Philology from AUTh. He has held visiting research positions at King’s College London and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and has worked as a screenwriter for film production companies in Barcelona and Athens. Since 2024, he has been a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer in Comparative Literature at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has presented at numerous conferences and published in academic journals and conference proceedings. He is also the co-editor of the collective volume Fantastic Fiction Today: Theoretical (Re)Approaches and Comparative Readings (2025) and the anthology of contemporary Spanish short fiction Rewriting the Monster (2025). His research interests include fantastic fiction, screenwriting and the intersections between literature and cinema.

BA in English Language, Linguistics and Literature

• Introduction to Literature
• Understanding Film

Fantastic Fiction 

Screenwriting 

Intersections between literature and cinema

Selected Publications

Naoum, I., Rassidakis, A., García Marín, Á., Markopoulos, Y., Georgoula, M. and Lygouris, P. (eds.) (2025) Proceedings of the International Academic Meeting “Fantastic Today: Theoretical (Re)Approaches and Comparative Readings”, Comparative Literature Laboratory, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 11–12 October 2024. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

Roas, D. and Markopoulos, Y. (eds.) (2025) Rewriting the Monster: An Anthology of Contemporary Spanish Fantastic Short Fiction. Translated by N. Angeli and T. Apostolaki. Patras: Perikeimeno (forthcoming).

Markopoulos, I. (2025) ‘Les enfants du paradis perdu: Ταινίες ενηλικίωσης νέων κινηματογραφιστ(ρι)ών της Θεσσαλονίκης’ [Les enfants du paradis perdu: Coming-of-Age Films by Young Filmmakers from Thessaloniki’], Cahiers Balkaniques (forthcoming).

Markopoulos, I. (2024) ‘Remapping modern Greek fantastic literature: The case of Kostas Karyotakis’, in A. M. Martin Vico, R. Rodriguez Parejo and S. Esteban Cabrera (eds), Nuevas aproximaciones en temas de estudios neogriegos, Granada: Sociedad Hispánica de Estudios Neogriegos, pp. 175–188.

Markopoulos, I. (2024) ‘Entre lo fantástico y la ciencia ficción: El caso del cuento neogriego “Ονειροπόλος” (Soñador) de Kostas Karyotakis’, Hélice, 9, pp. 76–86.

Selected Conference Presentations

Markopoulos, Y. (2025) ‘Όνειρα στο συρτάρι: Η περίπτωση του μη κινηματογραφημένου σεναρίου’ [‘Dreams in the Drawer: The Case of the Unproduced Screenplay’]. International Interdepartmental Conference “Dream in Literature: Interdisciplinary and Interartistic Approaches”, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Athens, 11–13 December 2025.

Markopoulos, Y. (2025) ‘Τη νύχτα, ανάσκελα: Το κατάκοιτο σώμα ως τόπος του φανταστικού’ [‘Τhe Night Face Up: The Bedridden Body as Fantastic Space’]. 8th Conference of the Greek Society of General and Comparative Literature — “Literature and Illness / The Illness of Literature”, Hellenic Open University (HOU), Athens, 21–23 March 2025.

Markopoulos, Y. (2024) ‘Les enfants du paradis perdu: Ταινίες ενηλικίωσης νέων κινηματογραφιστ(ρι)ών της Θεσσαλονίκης’ [‘Les enfants du paradis perdu: Coming-of-Age Films by Young Filmmakers from Thessaloniki’]. Colloque International – Ville [polis] B: “Destructions, Constructions, Déconstructions d’une Ville: Thessalonique”, Inalco, Paris, 21–22 November 2024.

Markopoulos, Y. (2023) ‘Towards a Redefinition of the Fantastic in Modern Greek Literature (1880–1930): The Case of Fotis Kontoglou’s Pedro Cazas.’ 7th European Conference on Modern Greek Studies, Universität Wien, Vienna, 11–14 September 2023.

Markopoulos, Y. (2022) ‘On Madness and the Fantastic: From Censoring the Impossible to Subverting the Real.’ 5th International Conference Visiones de lo Fantástico: “Fantastic and Ideology”, Università degli Studi di Torino, 29–30 June and 1 July 2022.

Markopoulos, Y. (2022) ‘The Filter, the Pendulum, and the Mirror: Remapping Modern Greek Fantastic Literature.’ Princeton University Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies Fourteenth Annual International Graduate Student Conference, Princeton Athens Center, Athens, 6 May 2022.

imarkopoulos@york.citycollege.eu