PAVLOS
ANDRONIKOS
Pavlos Andronikos was
born in Cyprus, grew up in London, and
migrated to Australia in 1981 with his wife
and son to teach Greek at the University of
New England in Armidale, New South Wales.
In 1983 he moved with his
family to Melbourne to take up the position
of Lecturer at the University of Melbourne.
In that capacity he was made responsible for
Greek at Monash University, while at the
same time teaching at the University of
Melbourne, and occasionally at La Trobe.
After a few years of
being a peripatetic academic, Pavlos
requested and was granted a transfer to
Monash University (Clayton Campus), where he
continued to be responsible for Greek, and
was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
When Pavlos retired from
Monash in 2001, he had been head of Greek
there for almost twenty years. During that
time he pioneered a number of innovations,
such as the first university level course in
Greek-Australian literature, and the
introduction of Greek cinema studies.
He was also
instrumental in the preparation and
publication by his students of the first two
editions of the periodical Mozaic,
an initiative which was later taken up by
the National Union of Greek Australian
Students (NUGAS).
In addition to his
academic duties, Pavlos Andronikos has
served voluntarily as:
·
Vice
President and President of the
Greek-Australian Cultural League of
Melbourne
·
Member of the Administrative Committee of
Kentro Technis, and President
·
Member of the Organising Committee of the
Annual Victorian Symposium on Greek-Cypriot
Literature and Culture
·
Member of the Board of Directors of the
Antipodes Festival
·
Member of the Executive Committee of the
Modern Greek Studies Association of
Australia and New Zealand.
·
Member of the Advisory Committee of
Academics of the Government of Cyprus, and
the Inter-University Research Committee on
Cyprus.
Moreover he has been an
active member of the Justice-for-Cyprus
Co-ordinating Committee (Σ.E.K.A. Victoria)
since the 1990s, serving the organisation in
various capacities but mostly as General
Secretary and webmaster.
Outside of academia,
Pavlos Andronikos has indulged his passion
for music, and become well known in the
Greek Australian community for his
songwriting. (In 1998 he was accepted to the
Register of Peers of Australia Council
[Music].)
He has also followed his longstanding
interests in computer graphics and
photography and created—“for the sheer
pleasure of it”—numerous “Photo-Graphics”
artworks. He has exhibited formally on two
occasions. (See below.)
Selected Publications
Literary
Criticism
·
“The
Narrator of Vasilis Arvanitis: An
Exploration into Emotional Response
to the Reading of Fiction”
by Pavlos Andronikos. In The Text and
Its Margins: Post-Structuralist
Approaches to Twentieth-Century
Greek Literature
ed. M. Alexiou & V. Lambropoulos
(New York: Pella Publishing Co.,
1985).
·
“‘Carrying On
About Things Greek...’: Rationality
and Identity in Angelo Loukakis’
For the
Patriarch”
by Pavlos Andronikos. In Neohellenism
ed. John Burke & Stathis Gauntlett
(Humanities Research Centre
Monograph no. 5. Canberra:
Australian National University,
1992).
Translations
·
Vasilis Arvanitis
by Stratis Myrivilis. Translated by
Pavlos Andronikos. Armidale:
University of New England Publishing
Unit, 1983.
·
“The
Leader”
by Dimitris Tsaloumas. Translated by
Pavlos Andronikos & the author (Westerly,
vol. 30, no. 1, March 1985, pp.
34-36).
·
“Investigator’s Report” by Dimitris
Tsaloumas. Translated by Pavlos
Andronikos & the author. In The
Observatory
by Dimitris Tsaloumas, 3rd ed. (St
Lucia: U.Q.P., 1991), pp. 193-199.
(First published in Overland
no. 97,
pp. 34-5.)
Editing
·
Antipodes
1974-1994,
vol. 2. Melbourne: G.A.C.L.M.V.,
1994. (All of the editions of the
periodical Antipodes
from
1974 to 1994 were reprinted in three
hefty volumes. Volume 2 is comprised
of the editions which Pavlos
Andronikos edited [nos. 20-26].)
·
Reviews editor
for
Modern Greek Studies (Australia and
New Zealand)
vols. 4-7 (1996-1999).
Music
·
Room To Let A
& B,
two plays by Vasilis Georgarakis.
Directed by Anthony Georgiou. Music
by Pavlos Andronikos. Performed at
Stonnington Theatre, Malvern, 1990.
·
In a
Strange Land: An Anthology of
Greek-Australian Songs and Music
produced by Pavlos Andronikos &
Stephen Adam. (Compact Disc)
·
Songs
and Music by Pavlos Andronikos
on YouTube
Visual Arts
·
Antipodean Palette Exhibition 2012,
Steps Gallery, Carlton, 19 July - 5
August 2012.
·
Antipodean Palette Exhibition 2013,
Steps Gallery, Carlton, 25 June - 2
July 2013.
Software
·
MixDownCBX-D5
Demo.
On
Future Music CD 48, which
accompanies Future Music
no. 48,
October 1996 (Bath, UK). Also
included with the programme MAX version 3.5 by
Opcode, USA (1997).
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