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Professor Vrasidas Karalis

Sir Nicholas Laurantus Professor of Modern Greek
Chair of Modern Greek Department

A18 - Brennan MacCallum Building
The University of Sydney

Telephone +61 2 9351 7252

Biographical details

For the last 20 years, my main area of research has been in Modern Greek, Byzantine, Cultural Studies and more recently New Testament Studies. I have also worked in translation, especially of the Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White and translated three of his major novels into Greek (Voss, The Vivisector, A Cheery Soul).

Furthermore, my Australian involvement can be seen in the number of public lectures I have been invited to offer in Greek-Australian or mainstream Australian venues. I believe that our area of studies has to be gradually incorporated within the mainstream dominant environment and go beyond its introverted ghetto mentality. For my services I received the Federation Medal from the Federal Government in 2003.

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Teaching and supervision

Teaching

  • MGRK1601: Junior Modern Greek 1
  • MGRK1602: Junior Modern Greek 2
  • MGRK2631: Cultural Identities
  • MGRK2653: Sex, Drugs and Music in Modern Greek Culture
  • MGRK2675: New Testament Greek and its World A
  • MGRK2676: New Testament Greek and its World B

Supervision - Current

  • Uros Todorovic, The Relevance of Late Byzantine Art to Contemporary Artistic Movements
  • Afroditi Vassos, The teaching of Greek as a second language
  • Catherine Cassis-Liaros, the Poetics of Death in The work of George Sarantaris

Supervision - Completed

  • Dr Panayiotis Diamadis, The Fate of the Greek Minority in Asia Minor
  • Dr Jen Harisson, Anthropoligical Readings of Nikos Kazantzakis and Patrick White
  • Dr Haris Cypridemos, The Cyprus Question between 1930 and 1960
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Current research students

Project title Research student
Gender Psychodynamics in Films by Contemporary Greek Female Directors Sophia SAKELLIS
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Current projects

  • Six Greek Film-Makers I.B. Tauris (forthcoming)
  • Editing a volume on Cornelius Castoriadis and the Project of Radical Autonomy, Brill Publications (forthcoming)
  • Greek Philosophy After the Greeks re-press, Melbourne (forthcoming)
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Associations

  • 2007: Elected member of the Australian Council of the School of Divinities
  • 2005: Re-elected President of Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand
  • 2005: President of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
  • 2005: Elected Editor of the official journal of the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
  • 2003: Honorary member of the Greek-Orthodox Community of Lakemba
  • 2002: Re-elected President of the Association fo Modern Greek Studies of Australia and New Zealand
  • 2001: Member of the Sydney University based Society for Literature and Aesthetics
  • 2000: Member of the Centre for Australian Culture and Spirituality
  • 1998: President of the Association of Modern Greek Studies in Australia and New Zealand.
  • 1998: Member of the Council of the Sydney School of Divinity
  • 1998: Member of the Academic Board of the Sydney School of Divinity
  • 1995: Vice-President, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.
  • 1995: Member of the International Society of Friends of Nikos Kazantzakis (Societe des amis de N. Kazantzaki, Geneva)
  • 1995: Co-founding member of the Greek-Orthodox Forum, a new cultural association, under the auspices of the Greek-Orthodox Archdiocese, for the promotion of the Hellenic and Byzantine Heritage in Australia.
  • 1993: Vice-president, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand..
  • 1992: Committee member, Modern Greek Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand.
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Selected grants

2017

  • Understanding Europe: 3 x 2cp units (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Winter B, Moir C, Morgan P, Karalis V, Sorbera L, Stott C, Walsh A, Alba A, Rubino A; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
  • Research Data Management: THE Generic Skill of the 21st Century (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Denyer G, Todd M, Vervoort R, Karalis V, Yi X, Boddy A, Bridgeman A, Coleman R, Cruchley G, Faedo M, Hammond J, Ryan J; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.
  • Cultures of Food (Europe; Asia; Middle East and North Africa) (Open Learning Environment - Undergraduate); Scott C, Orsini R, Karalis V, Suter R; DVC Education/Small Educational Innovation Grant.

2013

  • Sydney Intellectual History Network; Milam J, Aspromourgos A, Borghesi F, Caine B, Ferng J, Fitzmaurice A, Gaukroger S, Helbig D, Karalis V, Kerridge I, Macarthur D, Nassar D, Redding P, Sadurski W, Sevel M, Sluga G, Smith M, Waldow A, Walton K; DVC Research/Research Network Scheme (SyReNS).
  • Title of the project; Karalis V; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FRSS 2013 Large Grants.

2012

  • Writing the World - Transnationalism in Literary Studies; Bandhauer A, Borghesi F, Christie W, Cowan R, Dixon R, Giles P, Karalis V, Kirkpatrick P, Lu Y, Minter P, Morgan P, Parsons N, Rooney B, Suter R, Walsh A; Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/FASS Collaborative Research Scheme.

2007

  • Critical history of Christianity; Karalis V; RIHSS (Inter-disciplinary research networks and clusters)/RIHSS Internal Research Grant Allocations.
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Selected publications & creative works

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Books

  • Karalis, V. (2017). Realism in Greek Cinema: From the Post-War Period to the Present. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Karalis, V. (2012). A History of Greek Cinema. New York: Continuum.
  • Karalis, V. (2008). Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Essay on Andreas Aggelakis. Athens: Odos Panos Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). Reading Dionysios Solomos. Athens: Ideogramma Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Leo the Deacon, Histories, Introduction-translation-notes, by V. K. Athens: Athens Kanakis Publications.

Edited Books

  • Karalis, V. (2014). Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V., Nickas, H. (2013). Antigone Kefala: a writer's journey. Melbourne: Owl Publishing.
  • Schaap, A., Celermajer, D., Karalis, V. (2010). Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt. Surry: Ashgate. [More Information]

Book Chapters

  • Karalis, V. (2015). Theo Angelopoulos' Early Films and the Demystification of Power. In Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven (Eds.), The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos, (pp. 114-128). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Karalis, V. (2015). Traumatised Masculinity and Male Stardom in Greek Cinema. In Andrea Bandhauer, Michelle Royer (Eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures, (pp. 184-198). London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). Introduction to Cornelius Castoriadis Early Essays. In Vrasidas Karalis (Eds.), Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy, (pp. 1-19). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2014). The Artefacts of Capitalism and the Objecthood of their Aesthetics. In Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente (Eds.), Aesthetic Capitalism, (pp. 27-46). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V., Nickas, H. (2013). Introduction. In Vrasidas Karalis, Helen Nickas (Eds.), Antigone Kefala: a writers journey, (pp. 9-20). Melbourne: Owl Publishing.
  • Karalis, V. (2013). The Poetics of Ellipsis in Antigone Kefala's Poetry. In Vrasidas Karalis, Helen Nickas (Eds.), Antigone Kefala: a writers journey, (pp. 254-271). Melbourne: Owl Publishing.
  • Karalis, V. (2012). The Psychodynamics of Cultural Encounters. In Antonis Kontis, Nikolaos Tatsis (Eds.), The Greek Diaspora in Australia, (pp. 428-449). Athens, Greece: Papazisis Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Confronting Violence and Power: Notes on Hannah Arendt's Humanism (An investigation into Discursive Sources). In A. Schaap, D. Celermajer, V. Karalis (Eds.), Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt, (pp. 171-189). Surry: Ashgate. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's letters. In Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney (Eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp. 187-205). Leiden: Brill.
  • Celermajer, D., Schaap, A., Karalis, V. (2010). Introduction: in conversation with Hannah Arendt. In A. Schaap, D. Celermajer, V. Karalis (Eds.), Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt, (pp. 1-9). Surry: Ashgate.
  • Karalis, V. (2008). Martin Heidegger and the Aletheia of his Greeks. In Karalis, Vrasidas (Eds.), Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living, (pp. 208-227). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). Greek Christianity after 1453. In Parry, Ken (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, (pp. 156-185). USA: Blackwell Publishers. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The Unreality of Repressed Desires in The Last Temptation of Christ. In Darren J. Middleton (Eds.), Scandalizing Jesus? Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On, (pp. 73-83). New York and London: Continuum.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Introduction To Asaleuti Zoi. In Not known (Eds.), H Asaleuti Zoi. Athens: Ideogramma.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). The Body Beautiful: Representations Of The Body From Classsical Antiquity To The 2004 Athens Olympic Games. In Steve Georgakis (Eds.), Back to Olympia: The Olympic Games Across Four Millennia 2000-2004, (pp. 130-146). Croydon: Joba Press Pty Ltd.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). History and nihilism in "Gyftopoula" (his novel: the gypsy girl). In Zoumboulakis, Triantafyllopoulos (Eds.), Ho Mythistoriographos Papadiamantes; Synagoge Kritikon Keimenon, (pp. 255-267). Athens: Estia Publications.

Journals

  • Karalis, V. (2017). Gurdjieff beyond the Personality Cult: Reading the Work and Its Re-Workings Notes on Rene Zuber's 'Who are You Monsieur Gurdjieff?'. Religion and the Arts, 21(2017), 176-188. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Nikos Karouzos (1926-1990): a Christian poet between nihilism and tragedy. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017), 322-327.
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Translation - Ode Nocturnal and Neolithic Kronstadt (1987). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017), 309-321.
  • Karalis, V. (2016). Translingualism, Home, Ambivalence: The Poet Dimitris Tsaloumas. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 August 2016, 1-4.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). From the archives of Oblivion: the first female Greek director Maria Plyta (1915-2006). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 16-17 A(2013-2014), 45-67.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). Situating G.I. Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 27(3), 303-324. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2012). Breaking the Image, Celebrating the Word: Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Tendency to Abstraction. Literature and Aesthetics, 22(2), 13-32.
  • Karalis, V. (2012). In search of Neo-Hellenic culture: Confronting the ambiguities of modernity in an ancient land. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 3(2), 129-145. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2011). The construction of cinematic realism in Mihalis Cacoyannis' early films (1954-1959). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 15, 161-173.
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Disambiguating the Sublime and the Historicity of the Concept. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 12(4), 1-11. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Reflections on the project of a renewed Polis: After Athens and Jerusalem. Thesis Eleven, 102(1), 6-23. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). The Cinematic Gaze in Early Greek Cinema (1905-1945). Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora: critical thoughts on Greek and world issues, 36(1-2), 7-44.
  • Karalis, V. (2010). The Socialist Era in Greece (1981-1989) or the Irrational in Power. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 14(2010), 254-270.
  • Karalis, V. (2009). The mythopoetics of space in the Timaeus. Literature and Aesthetics, 19(1), 138-152.
  • Karalis, V. (2008). Aristotle and us: some observations on his philosophical language. Thesis Eleven, 93(May 2008), 36-51. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2007). On Transference and Transposition in Translation. Literature and Aesthetics, 17(2), 227-239.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). The Disjunctive Aesthetics of Myth and Empathy in Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze. Literature and Aesthetics, 29, 65-80.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). The Poetics of the Sacred Name in the Work of William Butler Yeats. Nea Hestia, September 2007(1803), 414-431.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). William Butler Yeats, "A General Introduction For My Work". Nea Hestia, September 2007(1803), 293-315.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). Notes on the Utopian and Chthonic Semiotics of the Jindyworobaks. International Yearbook of Aesthetics, 10(2006), 115-125.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). On Nikos Kazantzakis' statement that "We do not fight our dark passions with a sober, bloodless, neutral virtue which rises above passion, but with other, more violent passion". Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), (Special Issue on Culture and Memory), 129-141.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). Patrick White and the Great Code of Hellenism. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(1), 173-192.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). The Disjunctive Aesthetics of Myth and Empathy in Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses Gaze. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(2), 201-214.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). Mr Gurdjieff's Legacy: The poetics and aesthetics of reality in the thought of a new age guru. Literature and Aesthetics, 15(1), 252-266.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The City as the Topos and the Habitus of Modernity in the poetry of Michael Dransfield. Literature and Aesthetics, 15(2), 217-226.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). Yorgos Chronas; 99 Poems - Book Review. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand).
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Erotocritos' Double Language. Diavazo, 454, 104-113.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). George Ioannou And The Poetry Of Conscious Sinfulness. Diavazo, 452, 75-80.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Introduction to the critical publication of Kostes Palamas, Life Immovable. Ideogramma, , 9-53.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Neopagan Modernity In Hamlet'S Symbols. Diavazo, 449, 97-100.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Psycho-readings And Psycho-narratives Of Critical Discourse. Diavazo, 453, 119-124.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). C.P Cavafy and the Poetics of the Innocent Form. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 11, 152-164.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). In memory of Kimon Friar. Diavazo, 439, 36-43.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). The tragedy of the low middle class. Diavazo, 440, 87-95.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Thoughts on the concept of individualisation in the works of Stelios Ramfos. Diavazo, 439, 83-92.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). Imagination is always metaphysical. Diavazo, 432(September), 108-113.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). The Fear of Nothingness in K. Dimoula's Poetry. Diavazo, 435(December), 95-101.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). The Occluding Alphabets of a National Poet: the case of Dionysios Solomos' 'Reflections'. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 10, 19-40.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). An appreciation of Greek literary criticism. Diavazo, 419, 122-128.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). History and Nihilism in Papadiamantis' The Gypsy Girl. Diavazo, 422, 105-110.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Leo Tolstoy and Nikos Kazantzakis: Evangelists of a Terrified God. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES, 38938, 177-194.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). The Dramatic work of Angelos Sikelianos. Diavazo, No 424, 130-139.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). The Virture of Quality. Diavazo, 424, 151-154.

Edited Journals

  • Karalis, V., Nazou, P. (2017). A Journal for Greek letters - From Stories to Narratives: the enigmas of transition. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017).
  • Karalis, V. (2005). Special issue on Australian Society (p. 320). JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Special Issue on C.P. Cavafy (p. 380). JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Special Issue on Dionysios Solomos. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). Special Issue on Nikos Kazantzakis. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.

Conferences

  • Karalis, V. (2009). Psychodynamics of inter-cultural encounters (Greek presence in Australian society and the emergence of Greek/Australian subjectivity). Seventh Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies 2007, Australia: Department of Languages, Modern Greek, Flinders University.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The poetics of Deep Image and the language of kenosis in Athos Dimoulas? Poetry. Greek Research in Australia: 5th Biennial Conference of Greek Studies, Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Under the Eyes of the Dead: the Metaphysics of Mortality in Rhapsody 24 of Kazantzakis' Odyssey. 1 International Conference on Crete and Europe, : UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy.

Textual Creative Works

  • Karalis, V. (2016). Reflections on Presence in Five Days, (pp. 13 - 127). Melbourne, Australia: re.press.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). The Demons of Athens: Reports from the Great Devastation, (pp. 1 - 229). Blackheath, NSW, Australia: Brandl & Schlesinger.

Other

  • Karalis, V. (2004), Interview with Margaret Thronsby, on National ABC Radio, March 2004.
  • Karalis, V. (2002), TRANSLATION: S.S. Charkianakis, Australian Passport, introduction & notes by V.K., Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2002.

2017

  • Karalis, V., Nazou, P. (2017). A Journal for Greek letters - From Stories to Narratives: the enigmas of transition. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017).
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Gurdjieff beyond the Personality Cult: Reading the Work and Its Re-Workings Notes on Rene Zuber's 'Who are You Monsieur Gurdjieff?'. Religion and the Arts, 21(2017), 176-188. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Nikos Karouzos (1926-1990): a Christian poet between nihilism and tragedy. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017), 322-327.
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Realism in Greek Cinema: From the Post-War Period to the Present. London: I.B. Tauris.
  • Karalis, V. (2017). Translation - Ode Nocturnal and Neolithic Kronstadt (1987). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 18(2016-2017), 309-321.

2016

  • Karalis, V. (2016). Reflections on Presence in Five Days, (pp. 13 - 127). Melbourne, Australia: re.press.
  • Karalis, V. (2016). Translingualism, Home, Ambivalence: The Poet Dimitris Tsaloumas. Cordite Poetry Review, 1 August 2016, 1-4.

2015

  • Karalis, V. (2015). Theo Angelopoulos' Early Films and the Demystification of Power. In Angelos Koutsourakis and Mark Steven (Eds.), The Cinema of Theo Angelopoulos, (pp. 114-128). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
  • Karalis, V. (2015). Traumatised Masculinity and Male Stardom in Greek Cinema. In Andrea Bandhauer, Michelle Royer (Eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems Across Cultures, (pp. 184-198). London: I.B. Tauris.

2014

  • Karalis, V. (2014). The Demons of Athens: Reports from the Great Devastation, (pp. 1 - 229). Blackheath, NSW, Australia: Brandl & Schlesinger.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy. Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2014). From the archives of Oblivion: the first female Greek director Maria Plyta (1915-2006). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 16-17 A(2013-2014), 45-67.
  • Karalis, V. (2014). Introduction to Cornelius Castoriadis Early Essays. In Vrasidas Karalis (Eds.), Cornelius Castoriadis and Radical Democracy, (pp. 1-19). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2014). Situating G.I. Gurdjieff's Meetings with Remarkable Men. Journal for the Academic Study of Religion, 27(3), 303-324. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2014). The Artefacts of Capitalism and the Objecthood of their Aesthetics. In Peter Murphy, Eduardo de la Fuente (Eds.), Aesthetic Capitalism, (pp. 27-46). Leiden: Brill. [More Information]

2013

  • Karalis, V., Nickas, H. (2013). Antigone Kefala: a writer's journey. Melbourne: Owl Publishing.
  • Karalis, V., Nickas, H. (2013). Introduction. In Vrasidas Karalis, Helen Nickas (Eds.), Antigone Kefala: a writers journey, (pp. 9-20). Melbourne: Owl Publishing.
  • Karalis, V. (2013). The Poetics of Ellipsis in Antigone Kefala's Poetry. In Vrasidas Karalis, Helen Nickas (Eds.), Antigone Kefala: a writers journey, (pp. 254-271). Melbourne: Owl Publishing.

2012

  • Karalis, V. (2012). A History of Greek Cinema. New York: Continuum.
  • Karalis, V. (2012). Breaking the Image, Celebrating the Word: Byzantine Iconoclasm and the Tendency to Abstraction. Literature and Aesthetics, 22(2), 13-32.
  • Karalis, V. (2012). In search of Neo-Hellenic culture: Confronting the ambiguities of modernity in an ancient land. Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture, 3(2), 129-145. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2012). The Psychodynamics of Cultural Encounters. In Antonis Kontis, Nikolaos Tatsis (Eds.), The Greek Diaspora in Australia, (pp. 428-449). Athens, Greece: Papazisis Publications.

2011

  • Karalis, V. (2011). The construction of cinematic realism in Mihalis Cacoyannis' early films (1954-1959). Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 15, 161-173.

2010

  • Karalis, V. (2010). Confronting Violence and Power: Notes on Hannah Arendt's Humanism (An investigation into Discursive Sources). In A. Schaap, D. Celermajer, V. Karalis (Eds.), Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt, (pp. 171-189). Surry: Ashgate. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Consequences of bilingualism in Paul's letters. In Carole M. Cusack, Christopher Hartney (Eds.), Religion and Retributive Logic: Essays in Honour of Professor Garry W. Trompf, (pp. 187-205). Leiden: Brill.
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Disambiguating the Sublime and the Historicity of the Concept. CLC Web: Comparative Literature and Culture, 12(4), 1-11. [More Information]
  • Celermajer, D., Schaap, A., Karalis, V. (2010). Introduction: in conversation with Hannah Arendt. In A. Schaap, D. Celermajer, V. Karalis (Eds.), Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt, (pp. 1-9). Surry: Ashgate.
  • Schaap, A., Celermajer, D., Karalis, V. (2010). Power, Judgement and Political Evil: In Conversation with Hannah Arendt. Surry: Ashgate. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). Reflections on the project of a renewed Polis: After Athens and Jerusalem. Thesis Eleven, 102(1), 6-23. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2010). The Cinematic Gaze in Early Greek Cinema (1905-1945). Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora: critical thoughts on Greek and world issues, 36(1-2), 7-44.
  • Karalis, V. (2010). The Socialist Era in Greece (1981-1989) or the Irrational in Power. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 14(2010), 254-270.

2009

  • Karalis, V. (2009). Psychodynamics of inter-cultural encounters (Greek presence in Australian society and the emergence of Greek/Australian subjectivity). Seventh Biennial International Conference of Greek Studies 2007, Australia: Department of Languages, Modern Greek, Flinders University.
  • Karalis, V. (2009). The mythopoetics of space in the Timaeus. Literature and Aesthetics, 19(1), 138-152.

2008

  • Karalis, V. (2008). Aristotle and us: some observations on his philosophical language. Thesis Eleven, 93(May 2008), 36-51. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2008). Martin Heidegger and the Aletheia of his Greeks. In Karalis, Vrasidas (Eds.), Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living, (pp. 208-227). Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • Karalis, V. (2008). Recollections of Mr Manoly Lascaris. Blackheath, NSW: Brandl & Schlesinger.

2007

  • Karalis, V. (2007). Greek Christianity after 1453. In Parry, Ken (Eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Eastern Christianity, (pp. 156-185). USA: Blackwell Publishers. [More Information]
  • Karalis, V. (2007). On Transference and Transposition in Translation. Literature and Aesthetics, 17(2), 227-239.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). The Disjunctive Aesthetics of Myth and Empathy in Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses' Gaze. Literature and Aesthetics, 29, 65-80.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). The Poetics of the Sacred Name in the Work of William Butler Yeats. Nea Hestia, September 2007(1803), 414-431.
  • Karalis, V. (2007). William Butler Yeats, "A General Introduction For My Work". Nea Hestia, September 2007(1803), 293-315.

2006

  • Karalis, V. (2006). Notes on the Utopian and Chthonic Semiotics of the Jindyworobaks. International Yearbook of Aesthetics, 10(2006), 115-125.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). On Nikos Kazantzakis' statement that "We do not fight our dark passions with a sober, bloodless, neutral virtue which rises above passion, but with other, more violent passion". Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), (Special Issue on Culture and Memory), 129-141.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). Patrick White and the Great Code of Hellenism. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(1), 173-192.
  • Karalis, V. (2006). The Disjunctive Aesthetics of Myth and Empathy in Theo Angelopoulos' Ulysses Gaze. Literature and Aesthetics, 16(2), 201-214.

2005

  • Karalis, V. (2005). Mr Gurdjieff's Legacy: The poetics and aesthetics of reality in the thought of a new age guru. Literature and Aesthetics, 15(1), 252-266.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). Special issue on Australian Society (p. 320). JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The City as the Topos and the Habitus of Modernity in the poetry of Michael Dransfield. Literature and Aesthetics, 15(2), 217-226.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The poetics of Deep Image and the language of kenosis in Athos Dimoulas? Poetry. Greek Research in Australia: 5th Biennial Conference of Greek Studies, Adelaide, South Australia: Flinders University.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). The Unreality of Repressed Desires in The Last Temptation of Christ. In Darren J. Middleton (Eds.), Scandalizing Jesus? Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ Fifty Years On, (pp. 73-83). New York and London: Continuum.
  • Karalis, V. (2005). Yorgos Chronas; 99 Poems - Book Review. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand).

2004

  • Karalis, V. (2004). Erotocritos' Double Language. Diavazo, 454, 104-113.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). George Ioannou And The Poetry Of Conscious Sinfulness. Diavazo, 452, 75-80.
  • Karalis, V. (2004), Interview with Margaret Thronsby, on National ABC Radio, March 2004.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Introduction To Asaleuti Zoi. In Not known (Eds.), H Asaleuti Zoi. Athens: Ideogramma.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Introduction to the critical publication of Kostes Palamas, Life Immovable. Ideogramma, , 9-53.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Neopagan Modernity In Hamlet'S Symbols. Diavazo, 449, 97-100.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Psycho-readings And Psycho-narratives Of Critical Discourse. Diavazo, 453, 119-124.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). Special Issue on C.P. Cavafy (p. 380). JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2004). The Body Beautiful: Representations Of The Body From Classsical Antiquity To The 2004 Athens Olympic Games. In Steve Georgakis (Eds.), Back to Olympia: The Olympic Games Across Four Millennia 2000-2004, (pp. 130-146). Croydon: Joba Press Pty Ltd.

2003

  • Karalis, V. (2003). C.P Cavafy and the Poetics of the Innocent Form. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 11, 152-164.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Essay on Andreas Aggelakis. Athens: Odos Panos Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). History and nihilism in "Gyftopoula" (his novel: the gypsy girl). In Zoumboulakis, Triantafyllopoulos (Eds.), Ho Mythistoriographos Papadiamantes; Synagoge Kritikon Keimenon, (pp. 255-267). Athens: Estia Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). In memory of Kimon Friar. Diavazo, 439, 36-43.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Special Issue on Dionysios Solomos. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). The tragedy of the low middle class. Diavazo, 440, 87-95.
  • Karalis, V. (2003). Thoughts on the concept of individualisation in the works of Stelios Ramfos. Diavazo, 439, 83-92.

2002

  • Karalis, V. (2002). Imagination is always metaphysical. Diavazo, 432(September), 108-113.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). Reading Dionysios Solomos. Athens: Ideogramma Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). Special Issue on Nikos Kazantzakis. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). The Fear of Nothingness in K. Dimoula's Poetry. Diavazo, 435(December), 95-101.
  • Karalis, V. (2002). The Occluding Alphabets of a National Poet: the case of Dionysios Solomos' 'Reflections'. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand), 10, 19-40.
  • Karalis, V. (2002), TRANSLATION: S.S. Charkianakis, Australian Passport, introduction & notes by V.K., Brandl & Schlesinger, Sydney, 2002.

2001

  • Karalis, V. (2001). An appreciation of Greek literary criticism. Diavazo, 419, 122-128.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). History and Nihilism in Papadiamantis' The Gypsy Girl. Diavazo, 422, 105-110.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Leo the Deacon, Histories, Introduction-translation-notes, by V. K. Athens: Athens Kanakis Publications.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Leo Tolstoy and Nikos Kazantzakis: Evangelists of a Terrified God. JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES, 38938, 177-194.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). The Dramatic work of Angelos Sikelianos. Diavazo, No 424, 130-139.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). The Virture of Quality. Diavazo, 424, 151-154.
  • Karalis, V. (2001). Under the Eyes of the Dead: the Metaphysics of Mortality in Rhapsody 24 of Kazantzakis' Odyssey. 1 International Conference on Crete and Europe, : UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy.
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