Dr. Christina Dokou

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The Legends return in 2021: A Salem Witch, Dead Poets’ Society, Loki and Mother Nature, live at the Philosophiki!

· Past courses:

· 1. AMERICAN POETRY—4^th semester

· Syllabus

· Poetry Elements

· U.S. History

· Poetry Movements

· Poetry Sites

· Notes on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land

· Weekly Poems

· Native American Poems

· Thesis Samples

· Bibliography Sample

· Essay Writing Instructions

· Workshop Note Packet 1

· Workshop Note Packet 2

· Watch an animated version of Ginsberg’s “Howl” at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM9BMVFpk80

2. THEORY OF CULTURE—5^th semester

Syllabus

Texts (Note: there are TWO packages included here, each with its own table of contents)

Class Notes

Reaction Papers—Best Answers!

Diaz del Castillo extracts from The True History of the Conquest of New Spain

Sigmund Freud, From Civlization and Its Discontents, (read ONLY pages 88 from “The analogy…”-92 end)

Ellen Sebring, “Civilization and Barbarism”

Guy Deutscher, “Does Your Language Shape How You Think?”

Casas-Adorno and Horkheimer-Hall-Hebdige in pdf package

Colin Kidd’s “In a Frozen Crouch”

George Orwell’s “England, Your England” from “The Lion and the Unicorn”

Robin Cook’s “Chicken Tikka Massala” speech extracts

George Ritzer, “The Macdonaldization of Society”

Donna Haraway, “The Cyborg Manifesto”

Barthes, texts from Mythologies here and also read the “Photography and Electorate Appeal” chapter here.

Michael Chapman, Postcolonialism

Liam Connell, Global Narratives

Paul James and Manfred B. Steger, “A Genealogy of ‘Globalization’”

West-Aronowitz-Wilson-Hochschild in one pdf here.

Cielemecka and Daigle, Posthuman Sustainability

Alternative versions of the texts for eye-impaired students can be found here, courtesy of your classmates, Ms. Maria Tzevelekou and Mr. Athanassios Patras. Thank you, Thanos and Maria!

THEORY AND CRITICISM OF LITERATURE—4^th semester

Syllabus

Chronology

Texts

Paula Gunn Allen, “Kochinnenako in the Academe”: £- Kochinnenako in Academe: - Ohio University (yumpu.com)

NEW Advertisement analyses: Best of!

Advertisements for the extra-credit assignment:

1. Advertisement for phone company at: http://diafhmiseis.gr/diafhmish-cosmote/aggelikoula-manh/ (Part I) and http://diafhmiseis.gr/diafhmish-cosmote/diafimisi-cosmote-aggelikoyla-2011/ (Part II)

2. Advertisement for coffee/squirrel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ER3raBb-fpY

ADVERTISEMENT CHOICES FOR ERASMUS STUDENTS (IN ENGLISH)

1. Shaving accessories on manhood https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0

2. Little Darth Vader and car commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6hf3adNqk

BODILY FICTIONS: THE BODY IN MODERN AMERICAN FICTION—7^th semester

· Syllabus

· Bibliography

· Fried Green Tomatoes

· Texts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

· Pyke

· William Carlos Williams, death poems

· Lisel Mueller poem

· Susan Bordo essay

· Audre Lorde essay

· Adrienne Rich essay

· J. Halberstam essay

· Susan S. Friedman essay

· Hayles essay

· Zingsheim essay

· Journal Samples

· Body Films

· Body Project Thesis Samples

· Research Paper Thesis Samples

· Classnotes

· Wit flyer

· The Vagina Monologues flyer

· NEW! Watch Fur in Greek at:

· http://www.nt-archive.gr/playMaterial.aspx?playID=58#videos

· Sample Thesis, Outline and Bibliography

· Essay Writing Instructions

· Workshop Note Packet 1

· Workshop Note Packet 2

STUDENT EXHIBITION PAGE

THE BODY PROJECT EXHIBITION 2018-19

Four new unique and original projects were added this year to the gallery, covering topics such as individuality of style, body-constructivist pathology in the social media, scars and dramatized medical narratives on abortion—click here to see them all, and warmest congratulations to all contributors!

THE BODY PROJECT EXHIBITION 2017-18

The inspired and artful work continues—click here to see an anthology of student projects that really stun with their intelligent and passionate commentary on specific American texts and/or phenomena in relation to the body. Ladies and gents, you did yourselves—and your teacher—proud! Thank you!

THE BODY PROJECT EXHIBITION 2015-16

A. “The Changing Face of America” by Athena Markomichelaki, Evi Politi, Dimitrios Ramantanoglu Eleni Sichidi, Antonis Smardas

A collage of portraits (painted or photographed), divided by thematic category, chronicling the historic process of forming the USA through its changing ideologies of depiction of the human face/body.

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW9dLTy06w0&list=PLEvoC7K5WTPfwjYgFXfHVoOD4EOtxDawr

B. “Equal Parenthood Rights” by Olga Akepsimaidou and Fotini Paila

A short poetic film expressing the idea of the performative, volatile gender/sexual identity of parents.

Available: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yYyQBSaR5D8

C. “The Dress” by Stavroula Vasilopoulou and Kyriaki Kazelidou

A Response to Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” and Sylvia Plath’s “The Applicant” poems, this dress is entirely constructed of clippings from women and girls’ magazines, performing an interpellation of “proper” femininity. The dress “hangs” or “grows” from a hanger on whose sides the poems are pasted in the form of similar clippings.

Dress1 Dress2 Dress3 Dress4.

D. “Fried Green Tomatoes Diptych” by Efstathia Maria Athanasopoulou, Paraskevi Benetsi, Tugba Kalpak, Christina Anna Nikiforaki, and Rania Georgia Oikonomou

A re-staging of the “bee-charming” scene in the novel as a revised myth of Eden, with emphasis on the natural elements of the scene (including the bodies) and a “response” panel showing not Fall and Death as a result, but a cosmogonic flow from a Primal Vagina (real honey was used).

FGT Diptych

E. “Can She Really Do It?” by Evgenia Azdaridi, Anna Georgiadi, and Evanthia Gkilntirim.

A hilarious re-staging of a series of 50s sexist ads, tongue-in-cheek, that uses performative parody to highlight the phallogocentric assumptions that still plague western societies.

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5HlDQhNESw

F. “Interzone” by Irene Chatzi, Nikos-Georgios Farmakis, Vassileia Plakouraki, Georgia Rapti, and Theocharis Tsiakalos

A short film creatively retelling, through original narrative and lyrical symbolic images, the real-life story of Chana Wilson, a person forced to go through gender-reorientation “therapy” in contemporary USA.

Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtgYKbnKMLA

G. “Vagina and Trauma, Reflection of a Psyche” by Eleftheria Ploumaki and Christina Rigopoulou

An original depiction of female suffering due to the contradictory significations of femaleness within phallogocentric culture is suggested in this postmodern bricolage by the use of quasi-Byzantine religious iconography, a genre emphasizing bodily abnegation and suffering, while the choice of contrasting material—soft cotton for libidinal femaleness, sharp glass shards for subjugated, traumatized femininity—and organic, grainy wood to depict the uniqueness of bodily experience in tones both rich and natural make this a truly visceral approach to diachronic and transcultural trauma narratives.

Vagina and Trauma

P.S. Congratulations to all, you made me very proud! CXD

THE “WE REAL COOL” PROJECT

Inspired by the musicality of Gwendolyn Brooks’s 1966 poem “We Real Cool,” our 4^th semester “American Poetry” students came up with their own song versions of it: Eleni Chalvatzi’s smooth hip-hop meets Maria Pantsiou’s postmodern low-bap mix; Liana Damaschin and Georgia Patoula demonstrate the virtue of back-to-basics and remind us of the ways African-American music started—a voice, a bit of snapping, a bit of clapping; Theano Gympaki enlists the help of two African friends for the authentic Black experience; Rigoula Siaplaoura goes for a classical and elegant approach; and Monica or Irene Skylakaki have nothing on our own Vassiliki Papadopoulou and her inspired acoustic guitar! Enjoy here.