Goulis Dimitris
Assistant Professor
Department of Social & Cultural Studies
Children’s Literature
Office 511
Tuesday 12:00 – 14:00, Friday 16:00 – 18:00
+30 2310 995088
dagoulis@eled.auth.gr
Born and raised in Thessaloniki. He worked as a school’s teacher (1993-2017) and a faculty member of the School of Film of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) from 2017 to 2022.
In 2010 he completed his PhD in children’s literature. He has written dictionaries, books on children’s literature, creative writing, teaching Greek language in the Greek minority in Albania and about teaching the Holocaust.
In October 2015, the French Republic honored him as Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques for his contribution to the promotion of the French language and culture as well as his enlistment to teach the memory of the Holocaust. Today is assistant professor in the School of Primary Education of AUTh with the subject “Children’s Literature”.
His research interests are: Children’s literature, Creative Writing, Children’s Film and Children’s literature, Teaching the Holocaust
- Goulis, D., Kapsalis, G., Tsialos, S. Pashalis, A., (2007), Our dictionary for Elementary Schools, Athens: Schoolbooks Publishing Organization. https://www.openbook.gr/orthografiko-ermineytiko-lexiko/
- Goulis D., Grosdos, S., Ntagiou, E., Papadopoulou, S., (2014), Our Language 1 to 9. (Nine books) Supplementary Material of Greek Language for Schools of the Greek minority in Albania, Rethimno: University of Crete Editions. http://www.ediamme.edc.uoc.gr/ellinoglossi/index.php/el/2014-03-26-19-26-42/2014-05-10-15-30-19
- Goulis D., (2016), Images of childhood in the Screen. Theoretical approaches, cinema workshops & suggestions upon the utilization of the art of cinema in Education, Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
- Goulis, D. (2013). “Representations of Turkish Cypriots in Cypriot children’s literature texts”, Keimena, e-magazine of children’s literature, University of Thessaly, 16. http://keimena.ece.uth.gr/main/
- Goulis, D. (2013). “The silence of Ruth and the voice of Rebecca. Jewish images and the echoes of the Holocaust in Greek literature for children and young people”, Keimena, e-magazine of children’s literature, University of Thessaly, 17. http://keimena.ece.uth.gr/main/
- Goulis, D. (2016), “Narrations of the Absents. Creative compositions of a neighborhood’s past through a school’s archives”. In Kotopoulos H. T., Vakali A., B. & Nanos Soulioti D. (2016). Proceedings of the 2st International Conference “Creative Writing”, October 1-4, 2015, Corfu. Florina: PSP “Creative Writing.
- Goulis, D. (2016), “Science Fiction and childhood: Reaching for the Other through the poetics of Otherness”. In Proceedings of European Conference: Detecting Film Education at transnational level, Euforia-Creative Europe MEDIA, Thessaloniki International Film Festival (Greece), Akademia Nauk (Poland) & Laterna Magica (Hungary), Thessaloniki, February 27-28, 2016.
- Goulis, D., (2017), “Seeking the Jewish past of a neighborhood through the archives of its school. A Teaching Proposal of Local History”. In Yorgos Antoniou (ed.) Proceedings of Symposium of the Hebrew Studies Foundation/Aristotle University of Thessaloniki: “Demographic and Social Evolutions in the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki – Archival Resources 1912-1962”, Thessaloniki, 8-10 January 2017, Goethe Institute, Athens: Alexandria Publishing.
- Goulis, D. (2018), “From Régie Vardar to Xirokrini (1926-1934): A Study of the History of a Neighborhood through the Archives of its School and an Educational Proposal upon Teaching the Holocaust”, International Conference: People of the Mediterranean: Patterns, Networks and Conflicts (1492-1945), University of Haifa and University of Tel Aviv, Haifa & Tel Aviv, 10 June 2018 – 14 June 2018. http://www3.tau.ac.il/ggcenter/index.php/about/events/eventdetail/67/-/people-of-the-mediterranean-patterns-networks-and-conflicts
- Goulis, D. (2020), “The invention of memory & the construction of narration in Nazi’s Dystopias: narratological techniques, semantic remarks and ideological indications in literary and cinematic narratives”. In Georgopoulou E., Pangalos Y. (ed.) Memory and narration. Interdisciplinary approaches, Thessaloniki: Kyriakidis Publishing, 123-146.
- Goulis D., (2022), From Rezi Vardar to Xirokrini. Jews and Refugees in a working-class neighborhood of Thessaloniki (1926-1940). A research based on the study of school and other archival material, as well as suggestions for the teaching of local history. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press.
COURSES
CHILDREN’ S AND YOUTH LITERATURE. GENRES, THEORY AND CRITICISM
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
