Stephanos Stephanides (22 October 1949) is a Cypriot-born author, poet, translator, critic, ethnographer, and documentary film maker. In 1957 he moved with his father to the United Kingdom and since then he has lived in several countries for more than 34 years. He returned to Cyprus in 1991 as part of the founding faculty of the University of Cyprus where he held the position of Professor of English and Comparative Literature. Stephanides’ dominant and literary language is English until he retired in 2017. He is fluent in English, Greek, Spanish and Portuguese. His early migration from Cyprus to the United Kingdom and subsequent work and travel in many countries has been influential in shaping the transcultural character of his work. His creative and academic writing span issues of cosmopoetics, translatability, cross-culturality, dislocation and migration. As a young lecturer at the university of Guyana, he became deeply interested in Caribbean literary and cultural expression and his anthropological work with the descendants of Indian indentured labourers in Guyanese villages and sugar plantations marked the beginning of a lifelong interest in Indian culture and the Indian diaspora. Stephanos’ series of documentary films, Hail Mother Kali (1988), Kali in the Americas (2003) and Remembering Mariamman (forthcoming, 2025) deals with the aesthetics and cultural expression of Shakti worship, following a thread of personal memory from Cyprus to Guyana, New York, and India.