Christopher is the Lecturer of Modern Greek Literature & Language at UC Berkeley. Ongoing research in the fields of modern Greek poetry, postwar Italian cinema, and psychoanalysis addresses the turn in modern aesthetics to Greek rituals of mourning to help fathom historically specific forms of violence and loss in the twentieth century. His book manuscript in progress, titled Ash, Bone, Dirt, Stone: Destruction and the Aesthetics of Survival in Greek Literature, focuses on works written in the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War and Population Exchange alongside Freud's theory of the drive. He holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from UC Berkeley.
Christopher was engaged in psychoanalytic training at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis (SFCP) from 2019 to 2023. As associate faculty at SFCP, he teaches seminars on Lacan (Adult Psychoanalytic Training Program) and seminars on mourning and melancholia (Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Training Program). He began a psychoanalytic formation at the Lacan School of Psychoanalysis in 2023.
"Loss, Lament, and Survival in the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy," Journal of Modern Greek Studies 42, no. 2 (2024): 257-284.
