Innovation in Language Learning
Afroditi Athanasopoulou
Institution: University of Cyprus
Address: via Eressou, 1 - Apostolides Building - 2nd floor
Postal Code: 1057
Country: Cyprus
Afroditi Athanasopoulou is Associate Professor of Modern Greek Studies in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cyprus, where she has been working since September 2011. Previously, she has taught Modern Greek literature, language and culture at the University of Padova (1992-1997), at the University of Patras (2000-2002) and at the Hellenic Open University (2005-06). She also has worked as a researcher and teaching assistant at the “Laboratory of History and Social Sciences” of the Department of Primary Education at the University of the Aegean (2003-2008).
Her research interests include Modern Greek literature (19th-20th cent.), with a special emphasis on the Romantic Movement and on the oeuvre of Nikos Kazantzakis, Prosody and Metrical analysis, the Teaching of Literature and the relations between Literature and History. She is also interested in Linguistic and Cultural Studies, as well as in Narratology, and the literary topoi.
She is the author of "History and Literature in Dialogue: An insight into 'historical' and 'mythical method' in the 19th and 20th-century Greek poetry" (Thessaloniki, 2016) and the co-author of "The Thwarted Utopia. Yannis Gavrielides, Nikos Karayannis and other comrades" (Athens, 2008), both published in Greek. She has delivered papers in more than 70 international conferences and workshops related to her research interests and has published essays in Greek, Italian and English in Journals and collective volumes. She has also been a translator, in part or entirely, of scholarly books regarding major Modern Greek poets with Italian background, namely Kornaros, Solomos, and Kalvos, in collaboration with reputable Greek publishers such as the Crete University Press and the Benaki Museum.
Since 2009, she has been collaborating with the Cypriot Ministry of Education in projects and seminars about the teaching of literature in school education. She is the author of the Integrated Programme of Study of Literature (IPSL) in the Primary and the Secondary Education of Cyprus (2009-10), the coordinator of the Editorial Committee of the new textbooks and teachers’ manuals under the general title "The Written Word as a Spiritual Need. Selected Literary Texts" for the three grades of lower-secondary education (6 volumes, 2011-2014), and the head-coordinator of the team responsible for the implementation of the IPSL in the education system of Cyprus since 2011. A related publication in English can be found at www.jolace.com/en/sluzby/a2-3-september2014/
For her research see more in detail http://ucy.academia.edu/AfroditiAthanasopoulou and http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/el/component/comprofiler/userprofile/afroditi
Marili Douzina is a Greek Language Teacher at Arsakeia Schools of Psychico, Athens. She holds a MA degree in Communication and a PhD Degree in Literature Teaching from the University of Athens. Her PhD dissertation title is “Alternative approaches of the literature text: redefining the way adolescent students communicate with literature text through creative reading and creative writing”. For over 10 years she animates Creative Writing Workshops for High School Students in Greece.
Her research interests include Modern Greek literature (19th-20th cent.), with a special emphasis on the Romantic Movement and on the oeuvre of Nikos Kazantzakis, Prosody and Metrical analysis, the Teaching of Literature and the relations between Literature and History. She is also interested in Linguistic and Cultural Studies, as well as in Narratology, and the literary topoi.
She is the author of "History and Literature in Dialogue: An insight into 'historical' and 'mythical method' in the 19th and 20th-century Greek poetry" (Thessaloniki, 2016) and the co-author of "The Thwarted Utopia. Yannis Gavrielides, Nikos Karayannis and other comrades" (Athens, 2008), both published in Greek. She has delivered papers in more than 70 international conferences and workshops related to her research interests and has published essays in Greek, Italian and English in Journals and collective volumes. She has also been a translator, in part or entirely, of scholarly books regarding major Modern Greek poets with Italian background, namely Kornaros, Solomos, and Kalvos, in collaboration with reputable Greek publishers such as the Crete University Press and the Benaki Museum.
Since 2009, she has been collaborating with the Cypriot Ministry of Education in projects and seminars about the teaching of literature in school education. She is the author of the Integrated Programme of Study of Literature (IPSL) in the Primary and the Secondary Education of Cyprus (2009-10), the coordinator of the Editorial Committee of the new textbooks and teachers’ manuals under the general title "The Written Word as a Spiritual Need. Selected Literary Texts" for the three grades of lower-secondary education (6 volumes, 2011-2014), and the head-coordinator of the team responsible for the implementation of the IPSL in the education system of Cyprus since 2011. A related publication in English can be found at www.jolace.com/en/sluzby/a2-3-september2014/
For her research see more in detail http://ucy.academia.edu/AfroditiAthanasopoulou and http://ucy.ac.cy/dir/el/component/comprofiler/userprofile/afroditi
Marili Douzina is a Greek Language Teacher at Arsakeia Schools of Psychico, Athens. She holds a MA degree in Communication and a PhD Degree in Literature Teaching from the University of Athens. Her PhD dissertation title is “Alternative approaches of the literature text: redefining the way adolescent students communicate with literature text through creative reading and creative writing”. For over 10 years she animates Creative Writing Workshops for High School Students in Greece.
