Apostolidou Venetia
Professor
Department of Social & Cultural Studies
Modern Greek Literature and Literary Education
Office 504
Monday 18:00 – 19:00, Tuesday 12:00 – 14:00, Wednesday 18:00 – 19:00
+30 2310 995094
neta@eled.auth.gr
Venetia Apostolidou is Professor of Modern Greek Literature and Literary Education at the School of Primary Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
She was born in Thessaloniki in 1961. She has studied Modern Greek Literature at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and on postgraduate level at the Universities of Vienna and Birmingham.
Her research interests are a) history of the historiography of modern greek literature and history of modern greek criticicm, b) post-war fiction and its relation to history and society, c) reading in school and society and literature teaching.
She is Director of the Centre for Reading and Writing in School and Society.
- Apostolidou, V. (2010). Trauma and Memory in the Fiction of Greek Political Exiles in Eastern Europe. Athens: (in Greek)
- Pistas, & Apostolidou, V. (2009). An overview of the proza of Nikos Bakolas. Athens: Sokolis. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2003). Reading and Otherness. Athens: University of Athens Available: kleidiakaiantikleidia.net
- Apostolidou, V. (2003). History and Literature in Post-War Left Literary Criticism. Athens: (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1997). Choosing Literature Books for the Curriculum. Athens: National Book Centre. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1992). Kostis Palamas as a Historian of Modern Greek Literature. Athens: Themelio. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V., Kokoris, D., Bakogiannis, M. & Hodolidou, E. (Eds) (2018). Reading Literature in School and Society. Athens: (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, (Eds) (2005). Dimitris Hatzis. The Character of New Hellenism. Lectures and Essays. Athens: Rodakio. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V, Kaplani, V. & Hodolidou, E. (Eds) (2000). Reading Literature in School. A proposal for a new curriculum. Athens: Tipothito – G. Dardanos. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. & Hodolidou, E. (Eds) (1999). Literature and Education. Athens: Tipothito – G. Dardanos. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2018). Public Debate about Modern Greek Novel and the Consequences of its Absence from School. In: V. Apostolidou, D. Kokoris, M. Bakogiannis & E. Hodolidou (Eds). Reading Literature in School and Society (pp. 154-164). Athens: Gutenberg. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2018). Trauma als Bindeglied zwischen Vergangenheit und Gegenwart. Zur Rezeption zweier Romane in Zeiten der Krise. In: A. Anastasiadis & U. Moennig (Hrsg.). Trauma und Erinnerung. Narrative Versionen zum Bürgerkrieg in Griechenland, (S. 287-304). Wien / Köln / Weimar: Böhlau Verlag.
- Apostolidou, V. (2017). The concept of creativity in teaching literature. Students’ memories about the creative activities of their school years. In: K. Malafantis (Ed.). Literature and Education. Proceedings of the 10th Conference of Greek Pedagogical Society (vol. Α’, pp. 95-115). Athens: Diadrasi. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2015). George Zoras and Linos Politis: The institutional constraints of the University and the cultural capital of Modern Greek Studies. In: K. Dimadis (Ed.). Συνέχειες, ασυνέχειες, ρήξεις στον ελληνικό κόσμο (1204 2014): οικονομία, κοινωνία, ιστορία, λογοτεχνία. Proceedings of the 5th European Congress of Modern Greek Studies (vol. Β’, pp. 143-158). Athens: Available: http://www.eens.org/EENS_congresses/2014/apostolidou_venetia.pdf (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V., Koundoura, N. & Hodolidou, E. (2014). The New Curriculum for Literature Teaching in Compulsory Education. In: 11th International Conference on Greek Linguistics (Rhodes, 26-29 September 2013), Selected Papers (pp. 125-137). Rhodes. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V., Vassiliadis, B., Gamvrou, E., Georgiadou, A., Kountoura, N., Paschalides G. & Hodolidou, E. (2013). Guidelines for the teaching of modern Greek literature in high school. Nea Paideia, vol. 45, 28-53. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2012). Literature and History: An important relation for literary education. Centre for Greek Language. Available: http://www.greeklanguage.gr/digitalResources/assets/img/literature/education/literature_history/apostolidou-literature-history.pdf (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2012). Literature in ICT environments: cyber literature, e-books, digital communities, fan fiction and digital storytelling. Centre for Greek Language. Available: http://www.greeklanguage.gr/sites/default/files/digital_school/3.1.2_apostolidou.pdf (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2012). Historiography of Literature and University Teaching: The Example of Linos Politis. In: A. Kastrinaki, A. Politis & D. Tziovas (Eds.). For a New History of Modern Greek Literature of the 20th Century (pp. 465-479). Heraklion: Crete University Press. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. & Hodolidou, E. (2012). Curriculum for the Literature Class: Tradition and Innovation. In: M. Rodosthenous-Balafa & G. Miaris (Εds.). Teaching Literature in Secondary Education: Facing the New Curriculum (pp. 25-35). Nicosia: Ministry of Education and Culture. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2010). George Seferis – Linos Politis. Poetry and Philology in the Era of Modernism. In: Proceedings of the International Conference Modernism and Modern Greek Literature and Criticism (pp. 435-447). Thessaloniki, School of Philosophy: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (2009). The Formation of the Modern Literary Canon and its Relation to Institutions. In: M. Belge & J. Parla (Eds). Balkan Literatures in the Era of Nationalism (pp. 157-166). Istanbul Bilgi: University Press.
- Apostolidou, V. (2009). The Politics of Memory in the Fiction of Greek Political Exiles in Eastern Europe. In: D. Tziovas (Ed.). Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 (pp. 215-227). Surrey: Ashgate Publishing.
- Apostolidou, V. (2008). Die literarische Erfarung des Exils: Griechische Literatinnen und Literaten in Osteuropa. In: M. Stasinopoulou & I. Zelepos (Ηrsg.). Griechische Kultur in Südosteuropa in der Neuzeit (S. 397-405). Wien: Verlag der Ősterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
- Apostolidou, V. (2004). From the Underworld to Other Worlds: Political Attitudes in Contemporary Greek Fiction. In: P. Mackridge & E. Yannakakis (Εds.). Contemporary Greek Fiction in a United Europe: From Local History to the Global Individual (pp. 94-102). Legenda: University of Oxford.
- Apostolidou, V. (2000). Reading Literature in Elementary School: The Unit Approach as a Method of Structuring a Literature Curriculum. In: Literacy – Challenges for the New Millennium. Selected papers of the 11th European Conference on Reading (pp. 29-36). Stavanger, Norway: Center for Reading Research.
- Apostolidou, V. (1999). Greek intellectuals in exile: Intellectuals in East Germany in search for identity. In: A. Argyriou, K. A. Dimadis & A. Lazaridou (Eds.). The Greek World Between East and West. Conference Proceedings (vol. 2, pp. 331-341). Athens: Ellinika Grammata. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1999). Literature and Ideology: Ideas and values through literature teaching. In: V. Apostolidou & E. Hodolidou (Eds). Literature and Education (pp. 335-347). Athens: Tipothito – G. Dardanos. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1998). Literary Cities as Myths. The example of Thessaloniki. Entefktirio, vol. 45, 29-40. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1997). Structure of Feeling and the Function of Memory in the Novels about the Civil War. In: Historical Reality and Modern Greek Prose (1945-1995) (pp. 113-127). Athens: Moraitis School. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V., Paschalides, G. & Hondolidou, E. (1995). Literature in Education. Pressupositions for a New Curriculum. Sychrona Themata, no 57, 78-85. (in Greek)
- Apostolidou, V. (1995). The Construction and the Meanings of ‘National’ Literature. In: Nation – State – Nationalis (pp. 15-39). Athens: Moraitis School. (in Greek)
- 2002-2004, 2005-2007, 2010-2014 2016-2018 Collaboration with the European Program “Education of the Muslim Minority in Thrace”, by the University of Athens. From 2010 to the present Academic Head of the Project “Actions for the enforcement of the education of Muslim children” conducted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in collaboration with University of Athens.
- 2010 – 2012 Collaboration with the Centre for Greek Language in the following projects: a) “Digital formation of school books and other educational materials”. b) “Production of digital material for the teaching of Modern Greek Literature”.
- 2010-2012 Collaboration with the Institution for Educational Policy for the production of new curriculum for the teaching of literature in Primary and Secondary Education.
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