Humanities and Social Sciences

Greek Studies Program

Teaching
Modern Greek language, literature and culture.

Research interests
Modern Greek literature; Greek women prose-writers; feminism in modern Greek literature; Greek-Cypriot literature; Greek–Cypriot writers in Australia. Projects in progress: Greek-Cypriot writers in Australia; Post-colonialism and Greek-Cypriot literature.

Selected Publications (since 1996)
Chapters of books
Subjectivity and Objectivity in Lefkios Zafiriou’s Symmorites [in Greek], in Greek Studies in Australia: Research Perspectives (ed. M. Tsianikas and E. Close). The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide: 196-215 (1999)

Aspects of colonialism in the prose works of Greek-Cypriot writers [in Greek], in The Greek World between East and West, vol.I. Ellinika Grammata, Athens, pp 465-76 (1999)

The collective character of Greek- Australian Literature [in Greek], in Hellenism in the 21st century, Papazese, Athens (2000)

N. Nikolaides’ The Three Nails: A postcolonial Reading [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: 423-46 (2001)

Greek-Cypriot writers in Australia: Their problematic inclusion in a literary corpus [in Greek], in Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cypriot Studies. Society for Cypriot Studies, Nicosia: 89-97 (2001)

An overview of the work of the Greek-Cypriot poet Kyriakos Charalambides [in Greek and English], in K. Charalambides The Dome [bilingual edition]. NCHSR, Melbourne: 7-9 (2002)

The study and translation of works of Cypriot literature in Australia [in Greek], in Proceedings of the Second Symposium of Translators of Cypriot Literature. Ministry of Education and Culture, Nicosia: 65-78 (2002)

The transcendence of reality: A. Papadiamantis’ The Murderess and N. Nikolaides’ Beyond Good and Evil [in Greek], in Greek Research in Australia. Proceedings of the Biennial Conference of Greek Studies, Flinders University September 2001 (ed. E. Close, M. Tsianikas and G. Frazis). The Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide: 395-414 (2003)

“The colonial past in the postcolonial present in N. Orfanides’s novel O ;Aggelow ™fyge eytyxism™now” in Greek Research in Australia by E. Close, M. Tsianikas & G. Frazis (eds.) [Conference Proceedings], Adelaide: Flinders University, pp 565-594, 2005

Edited Journals
A special issue on Greek-Australian Literature, Akte No 33, Winter 1997.
Stephanos Constantinides & Maria Herodotou (Eds) Greeks in Australia in Etudes Helleniques /Hellenic Studies Vol. 7 No 2 Autumn 1999, Montreal. [Special issue with an Introduction by M. Herodotou].
Journal articles
Influences of Greek tradition in Nikos Ninolakis’ novel The never setting sun [in Greek], Antipodes 39-40: 66-76 (1996)
The poetry of Nikos Nomikos [in Greek], Antipodes 41–42: 7–30 (1997)
Vasso Kalamara’s short stories [in Greek], Akte 33: 81-86 (1997)
The Greek Novel in Australia [in Greek], Aiolika Grammata 176: 86-92 (April 1999)
Self-identification in literature: The case of writers of Greek-Cypriot descent in Australia, Hellenic Studies 7/2: 235-53 (Autumn 1999)
The descent from the cross of human pain: an introduction to the collection of poems The Dome by K. Charalambides and a discussion with the poet [in Greek], Antipodes 48: 46-53 (2002)
N. Karathanasis’ poetry on Cyprus, Antipodes 49: 26-32 (2003)