Humanities and Social Sciences

Greek Studies Program

Teaching
Twentieth century Greek literature and culture; Greek-Australian issues; Greek language and translation.

Research interests
Twentieth century Greek poetry (with particular reference to Yiannis Ritsos); Greek-Australian communities, literature, and educational issues; translation and translation issues.

Projects in progress
The early poetry of Yiannis Ritsos; the history of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria; issues in the history of the Greek-Australian community.

Selected Publications
(since 1996):
Chapters of books and journal articles
‘Your friend Kostis’: Kostas Malaxos-Alexander through his correspondence with Nikos Ninolakis [in Greek], Antipodes 39-40: 20-37 (1996)

The teaching of Modern Greek in Australia: expectations, institutions and the politics of multiculturalism, in Greeks in English-Speaking Countries: Culture, Identity, Politics (ed. C. Ioannides). Caratzas, N.Y.: 117-37 (1997 )

Rapid changes in the structure of the Greek-Australian community [in Greek], Antipodes 41-42: 73-81 (1997)

The Greek-Australian community and its literature [in Greek], Aiolika Grammata 176: 76-85 (April 1999) Aspects of the Post-War Greek-Australian community, Hellenic Studies 7/2: 65 – 96 (1999)

The teaching of Greek in the Greek-Australian community in 2000 [in Greek], Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 5-7: 273-294 (1997-9)

Art and ideology, self and others in the early poetry of Yiannis Ritsos [in Greek], Themata Logotechnias 16: 105-32 (February 2001)

Yiannis Ritsos’ modernising period 1935-43 [in Greek], in Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University June 2000 (ed. M. Tsianikas and E. Close). The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide: 461-502 (2001)

Review of G. Kanarakis, The Greek Press in the Antipodes, Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand) 8-9: 199-203 (2000-1)