Alexandros N. Akritopoulos

Born in 1954 in Skopia, Serres, he is a modern Greek philologist and academic. He studied at the Faculty of Philosophy at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.Th.), where he completed his doctoral dissertation in 1992. He taught at the Experimental School of A.U.Th. from 1998 to 2000. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Primary Education at the University of Western Macedonia. During the winter semester of 2008-2009, he was a visiting professor at the Modern Greek Institute of the Sorbonne, University of Paris (Paris IV). His research interests focus on the Greek Language and Literature, particularly Children's Literature. He has extensively explored genre-related issues in Literature, as well as Poetics, Rhetoric, and the Didactics of Literature, with a special emphasis on Children's Literature in Education. His works include "The Deployment of the Coordinated Adjective in the Work of G. Themelis" (1992, doctoral dissertation), "Poetry for Children and Young People" (1993), "Articles and Studies on Children's Literature" (1999), and "On the Poetics and Rhetoric of Andreas Embirikos" (2000). He contributed to the "Small Anthology of Modern Greek Literature: From 1204 to Today" (1997) and the volume "Biographies of Modern Greek Authors" (1997). He participated in the evaluation committee for the "Anthology of Literary Texts for Grades 1 and 2" and translated the book "What is a Literary Genre?" (2000) by French theorist J.-M. Schaeffer. His articles and studies have been published in collective volumes, conference proceedings, newspapers, and magazines.