Dr. Peter Jeffreys is an associate professor of English at Suffolk University, Boston, MA. His teaching interests include British modernism, Gothic literature, postcolonial theory, literary decadence, the Bloomsbury group, Modern Greek literature, and visual narrative. He has written and edited a number of books on C.P. Cavafy: Eastern Questions: Hellenism and Orientalism in the Writings of E. M. Forster and C. P. Cavafy (Greensboro: ELT Press, 2005); The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight Angle (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2009); E.M. Forster-Κ.Π. Καβάφης Αλληλογραφία: Φίλοι σε Eλαφρήν Aπόκλιση (
Athens: Ikaros Press, 2013); C.P. Cavafy: Selected Prose Works (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2010); Reframing Decadence: C.P. Cavafy's Imaginary Portraits (Ithaka: Cornell University Press, 2015); Στο κάδρο της Παρακμής: Φανταστικά πορτραίτα του Κ.Π. Καβάφη (Heraklion: Crete University Press, Spring 2019).
He has co-edited the volume “Approaches to Teaching the Work of C.P. Cavafy” (Modern Language Association of America, forthcoming, 2024) and has written a biography of Cavafy, titled “Alexandrian Sphinx: C.P. Cavafy – A Poet’s Life” (co-authored with Gregory Jusdanis, to be published by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux). His occasional ventures into the realm of creative writing include the following poems: “Seraph” (Paradise in Limbo Literary Arts Magazine 1, September 2016); “Arrangement in Black and Gray: After Whistler” (Ergon – Greek American Transnational Arts and Letters, summer 2017); “Greek Necropolis” (C.P. Cavafy Forum, University of Michigan, autumn 2018); “Σεραφείμ” (Hartis magazine 28, April 2021); “Solos” (Mediterranean Poetry, May 2019); “The Spoils of Ibrahim” (Mediterranean Poetry, December 2020) and Carré Anglais (Mediterranean Poetry, November 2023).
