Nikolas Vasilakos

Nikolas Vasilakos is a Greek Canadian and Master of Arts (MA) student in the Film & Moving Image Studies program at Concordia University. He has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Film Studies, graduating with distinction from the same university in 2022. His research examines the lack of representation of the LGBTQ+ community in a small selection of Greece's national cinema from the post-war era. Nikolaos is particularly interested in exploring themes such as Greek cinema, queer cinema, national cinema, and the diasporic representation of Greeks in cinema.

Supervisor: Luca Caminati

Thesis: Queer Coding and LGBTQ+ Erasure in Greece’s Post-War Cinema (1950-1969)

Research Interests

• Greek cinema

• Queer cinema

• National cinema

• Film history

• LGBTQ+ representation

• Greek diasporic representation

Teaching/TAships

FMST 350 /2 A (Studies In Film Genres: Action Film: Hong Kong, Japan, Hollywood)

FMST 319 /4 AA (The Moving Image and Society) 

Selected Publications

Karalēs Vrasidas. A History of Greek Cinema. New York: Continuum (2012)

Konstantinos Kyriakos. Επιθυμιες και Πολιτική: Ή Queer Ιστορια του Ελληνικου Κινηματογραφου (1924–2016) (Desires and Politics: The Queer History of Greek Cinema [1924–2016]). Athens: Aigokeros, (2017)

Email: nik.vasilakos@hotmail.com