Angela Yannicopoulou

Office:

• Greek Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
• Preschool Education, University of Athens, Greece
• Med, Hull University, U.K.
• PhD, Hull University, U.K.

Research interests

• Picturebook
• Teaching of Literature
• Multiliteracies
• Literature and Literacy

Courses and Seminars

• Introduction to Children’s Literature
• Children’s Literature: Issues of Theory
• Ideology in children’s literature
• Teaching of Literature in Preschool Education
• Picturebook in Preschool Education

Postgraduate

• Disability in Literature

Selected Publications

• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (1993). Fables and Children: Form and Function. Liverpool: Manutius Press.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2001). When the word meets the picture: The phenomenology of written text in children’s picture book, International Journal of Learning, 8, 1-11.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2002). The visual meanings of the written texts: The puns, International Journal of Learning, 9, 1-10.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2003). The (non)fiction book for young children: An interesting case in the Greek publishing market. Bookbird, 41 (1), 28-32.
• Nioti, N. & Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2003). The imaginary voyage in children’s picture book: A game of successive ironies (pp. 443-454).  In J. S. F. Vazquez, A. I. L. Cenitagoya, E. Raso y Leon (Eds). Realismo Social y Mundos Imaginarios: Una Convivencia Para el Siglo XXI (Reality and Imaginary Worlds: A Coexistence for the 21^st Century). Alcala: Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alcala.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2004). Visual aspects of written texts: Preschoolers view comics. L1 – Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 4, 169-181.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2006). The influence of environmental print on preschoolers’ literacy development in a two-alphabets’ society. L1 – Educational Studies in Language and Literature, 6 (1), 1-12.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2007). Hypertextual elements in the interactive fiction of Trivizas. Bookbird, 45 (1), 15-22.
• Yannicopoulou, A. A. (2010). Focusing on … focalization in children’s picturebooks (pp.65-85). M. Cadden (Ed). Telling Children’s Stories: Narrative Theory and Children’s Literature. Nebraska: Nebraska Press.
• Yannicopoulou, A. & Kaliakatsou, I. (2013). The melody of peace in the contemporary Greek war picture books. In K. Urba (Ed) Freedom and Control in/ of Children’s Literature (pp. 131-141). Vilnius: Vilniaus Universiteto Leidykla.
• Yannicopoulou, A. (2016). L’ imagine di Cenerentola nei libri illustrate contemporanei (pp. 135-148). In Monika Wozniak & Mariarosa Rossitto (eds) Cenerentola Come Testo di Cultura. Roma: Lithos.
• Yannicopoulou, A. & Fokiali, E. (2016). Transmedia narratives for children and young adults (pp. 776-789). In Deltsou & M. Papadopoulou (eds) Changing worlds and signs of the times: Selecting proceedings from the 10th International Conference of Hellenic Semiotics Society. Volos: The Hellenic Semiotics Society.
• Yannicopoulou, A. & Veryeri Alaca, I. (2018). The representation of the Other in illustrated texts for children: Turks in Greek books and Greeks in Turkish books. Bookbird, 56 (2), 14-26.
• Yannicopoulou, A. (2019). Ideology conveyed by the material(ity) of picturebooks. Libri & Liberi, 8 (2), 329-341.
• Panaou, P. & Yannicopoulou, A. (2021). Ideology in nonfiction picturebooks: Verbal and visual strategies in books about sculpture (pp. 54-65). Goga, N., Iversen, S. H. and Teigland, A.-S. (eds.) Verbal and Visual Strategies in Nonfiction Picturebooks: Theoretical and Analytical Approaches. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press.
• Politis, D, & Yannicopoulou, A. (2023). The Hidden Childness of a Nobel Prize-Winning Poet: George Seferis’s Limericks for Young Readers. Dzieciństwo. Literatura i Kultura 5(1) 2023, 9–23.
• Yannicopoulou, A. (2023). Nostalgia and empathy in Greek picturebooks about refugees (pp. 289-303). In Bettina Kummerling-Meibauer and Farriba Schult (eds) Political Changes and Transformations in Twentieth and Twenty-first Century Children’s Literature. Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg.
• Yannicopoulou, A. (2023). Two dad’s families in children’s nonfiction picturebooks (pp. 216-228). In  Elżbieta Jamróz-Stolarska, Mateusz Świetlicki, and  Agata Zarzycka (eds) Navigating Children’s Literature through Controversy: Global and Transnational Perspectives. Leiden, Boston:Brill.