Staff profile

Ms Maria Herodotou

Program and Honours Coordinator, Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

HU3 216, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Athens), DipEd (La Trobe), LittB (UNE), MA (Melbourne).

Area of study

Greek Studies

Brief profile

Maria Herodotou is the Program Coordinator and a Lecturer in Greek Studies at La Trobe University. Maria’s research interests are in modern Greek literature and Greek-Cypriot literature.

Research interests

Literary Studies

- Feminism in modern Greek literature

- Greek-Cypriot writers in Australia

- Modern Greek Literature

Teaching units

GST1BEA/B - Greek Beginners 1A/B. GST1ADA/B - Greek Advanced 1A/B. GST2ADA/B - Greek Advanced 2A/B. GST3TGK - Twentieth Century Greek Literature. GST3ITG - Issues in Teaching Greek.

Recent publications

Chapters of books

 

Herodotou, M 2005,  ‘The colonial past in the postcolonial present in N. Orfanides’s novel Angelos left happy’ in E. Close, M. Tsianikas & G. Frazis (eds.), Greek Research in Australia [Conference Proceedings], Adelaide: Flinders University, 565-594.

 

Herodotou, M 2003, ‘The transcendence of reality: A. Papadiamantis’ The Murderess and N. Nikolaides’ Beyond Good and Evil [in Greek], in E. Close, M. Tsianikas & G. Frazis (eds.), Greek Research in Australia [Conference Proceedings] Adelaide, Flinders University,  395-414.

 

Herodotou, M 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.

 

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

 

Herodotou, M 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.

 

Herodotou, M Nikolaides N 2001, ’The Three Nails: A postcolonial Reading [in Greek]’, in M. Tsianikas and E. Close (eds.), Greek Research in Australia [Conference Proceedings] Adelaide, Flinders University, 423-46.

 

Herodotou, M 2000, ‘The collective character of Greek- Australian Literature [in Greek]’, in Hellenism in the 21st century, Papazese, Athens.

 

Journal articles

 

Herodotou, M 2003, ‘N. Karathanasis’ poetry on Cyprus’, Antipodes 49: 26-32.

 

Herodotou, M 2002, ‘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).

 

Herodotou, M 1999, The Greek Novel in Australia [in Greek], Aiolika Grammata 176: 86-92.

 

Herodotou, M 1999, Self-identification in literature: The case of writers of Greek-Cypriot descent in Australia, Hellenic Studies 7/2: 235-53. 

Research projects

Greek-Cypriot writers in Australia

Post-colonialism and Greek-Cypriot literature