Humanities and Social Sciences

Greek Studies Program

Research interests
Greek-Australian and diasporic literature; women writers; portrayal of women in literature, the heroine in ancient Greek drama; literary translation; comparative studies.

Projects in progress
An anthology on the theme of ‘mothers and daughters' by Greek-Australian women writers;

General Editorship of the series ‘Writing the Greek Diaspora: studies, literature, translations' published by Owl Publishing, Melbourne (seventeen volumes published since 1992).

Selected Publications since 1996
Books
(Greek diaspora series)

Allochthona Topia: Greek-language poetry from Australia and Canada (edited and introduced by Helen Nickas and Stephanos Constantinides). Owl Publishing, Melbourne : 104 pp. (1998)

Dimitris Tsaloumas, a voluntary exile: selected writings on his life and work (edited and with bilingual introduction by Helen Nickas). Owl Publishing, Melbourne : 294pp. (1999)

Antigone Kefala, Poems: a selection (translated by H. Nickas, D. Tsaloumas, J. Vasilakakos, E. Vassiliou) . Owl Publishing, Melbourne : 118pp. (2000)

Antigone Kefala, The Island / L' île / To Nisi (translated into French by Marie Gaulis and into Greek by Helen Nickas, with an introduction by Helen Nickas) . Owl Publishing, Melbourne : 181pp. (2002)

Forthcoming: Mothers from the Edge. An anthology of new prose writings by Greek-Australian women writers (edited and introduced by Helen Nickas). Owl Publishing, Melbourne (2005)

Chapters of books and journal articles:
Greek-Australian literature: between ‘majors', Etudes Helleniques / Hellenic Studies 4/1: 63-82 (1996).

Literary production and the politics of multiculturalism in Australia : the case of Greek-Australian poet Dimitris Tsaloumas, in Reading Multiculturalism: Contemporary Postcolonial Literatures. University of Vigo, Spain : 97-104 (2000)

Revelling in Diversity? Meridian 17/2: 41-6 (2000)

Greek Women Writers in Australia : journeying towards the ‘centre', in Women Writers of the Greek Diaspora: Conference Proceedings (ed. M. Spanaki) . General Secretariat for Hellenes Abroad, Athens : 68-76 & 202-9 (2001)

Beware of Medusa's Head: Nikos Kazantzakis and women in Zorba the Greek, in Modern Greek Studies ( Australia and New Zealand ) 8-9: 153-65 (2000-1)

Introduction, in Yota Krili, Triptych: poems. Owl Publishing, Melbourne : 1-11 (2003)

Re-deeming the Past: Personal and Cultural Memory in Greek-Australian Poets, Etudes Helleniques/Hellenic Studies, Pages 53-80) Volume 13, No 1, 2005