Global Utilities

Greek Studies Program

Dr Despina Michael

photo of Despina Michael

Lecturer
Room: Humanities 3, 220
Tel: (61 3) 9479 2864
Fax: (61 3) 9479 1453
Email: d.michael@latrobe.edu.au

Qualifications: BA (Hons), Melb, DipEd Melb, PhD Melb, GradDipTESOL Deakin.

Teaching
Greek history and popular culture; Ethnic and Civil Conflict in Southern Europe.

Research interests
Greek history (ancient and modern), Greek music and musicians, Greek popular culture.

Projects in progress
Studies in Greek and non-Greek ethnicity in modern Greek culture; western ideological frameworks of the “primitive” in Greek music and dance; Cyprus and the Soviet Union.

Selected Publications (since 1996)
“Tsitsanis and the birth of the ‘New’ Laiko Tragoudi”. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), Vol. 4: 55-96 (1996).

Book Review. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand),Vol.10: 215-218 (2002).

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