UMass Boston

Language and literacy education, language policy, critical discourse studies, critical pedagogy

PhD, Language and Literacy Education, Pennsylvania State University

MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Massachusetts Boston

BA, Greek Philology/Linguistics, National University of Athens, Greece

• Gounari, P. (2022). From Twitter to Capitol Hill: Far-Right Authoritarian Populist Discourses, Social Media and Critical Pedagogy. Leiden/Boston: Brill.
• Gounari, P. (2021). ’Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!’: Teaching in Authoritarian Times. In R. Verma & M. Apple (Eds.), Disrupting hate: Teacher activists, democracy and pedagogies of disruption. New York: Routledge.
• Gounari, P. (2020). Teaching and Learning Language in Dangerous Times. Introduction to the Special Issue on Rethinking Critical Pedagogy in L2 Teaching and Learning. L2 Journal, 12 (2), 3-20.
• Gounari, P. (2019). Education in the Trump era: Activism as critical public pedagogy. International Journal of Critical Media Studies, Volume 1(1.2)
• Souvlis, G., & Gounari, P. (2019). State and universities in Greece (1974-2018): From the demand for democratization to the constellation of neoliberalism. Critical Education, 10(12), 1-19. doi:10.14288/ce.v10i12
• Gounari, P. (2018). Authoritarianism, discourse and social media: Trump as the ‘American agitator’. In J. Morelock (Ed.), Critical theory and authoritarian populism: A global perspective (pp. 207-227). University of Westminster Press. Retrieved from UNiversity of Westminster Press
• Gounari, P. (2018). Discourses of opposition and resistance in education: Alternative spaces for a militant pedagogy. In P. P. Trifonas & S. Jagger (Eds.), Handbook of cultural studies in education. New York: Routledge.
• Grollios, G. & Gounari, P. (2016). Liberatory and Critical Pedagogy in Greece: Historical Routes and Perspectives. Athens, Greece: Gutenberg.
• Gounari, P. (2016). The Necropolitics of Austerity: Discursive Constructions and Material Consequences in the Greek Context. Fast Capitalism, 13.1.
• Grollios, G. & Gounari, P.  (2015). The Design of New Curricula in Greek Compulsory Education. Ekpaideutiki Lesxi: Web Journal for Critical Pedagogy and Social Emancipation.
• Foley, J, Morris, D., Gounari, P., Agostinone-Wilson, F. (2015) Critical Education, Critical Pedagogies, Marxist Education in the United States. Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies. 13 (3).
• Gounari, P. (2015). Neoliberalism and the Politics of Despair in Greece. Utopia, 112.
• “Der Fall Griechenland: Von einer Politik, die Krankheit und Tod heranzüchtet” in Istinalog. (Summer 2015)
• “The Neoliberal Politics of Social Necrophilia in Greece.” In AnalyzeGreece. (February 2015).
• Gounari, P (2014). The Polis is Oneself: The “Occupy” Movement as a Site of Public Pedagogy. Iperistoria, No.3, March.
• Gounari, P. (2014). For a Critical Pedagogy of Disobedience. Grollios, G., Liambas, T, Pavlidis, P. Proceedings of the IV International Conference on Critical Education. Thessaloniki, Greece, 298-311.
• Gounari, P. (2014). Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia: Erich Fromm and The Politics of Hopelessness in Greece. In Kress, T. & Lake, B. (Eds.) Reclaiming the Sane Society: Essays on Erich Fromm. NY: Springer.
• Gounari, P. (2014). Rethinking Heritage Language in a Critical Pedagogy Framework. In Trifonas, P. & Aravossitas, T. (Eds.) Rethinking Heritage Education. Cambridge University Press.
• “Griekenland: neoliberalisme als sociale necrofilie” in De Wereld Morgen (April 3, 2014).
• “Neoliberalism as Social Necrophilia: The Case of Greece.” In Truthout, March 21 2014.
• Gounari, P. & Grollios, G. (2012). Educational Reform in Greece: Central Concepts and a Critique. Journal of Pedagogy, 3 (2), 303-318.
• Gounari, P. (2012). Neoliberalizing higher education in Greece: new laws, old free-market tricks. Power and Education, 4 (3), 278-289.
• Gounari, P. (2012). Critical Pedagogy and Peace Education: Understanding Violence, Human Rights, and the Historical Project of Militant Peace. In Wright, B. & Trifonas, P. (Eds.) Critical Peace Education: Difficult Dialogues. New York: Springer.
• Gounari, P. (2011). “Papandreou Co-Opted Revolution: Now the Greek People Must Reclaim it. In Truthout, October 29, 2011.
• Gounari, P. & Grollios, G. (Eds.). (2010). A Reader of Critical Pedagogy. Athens Greece: Gutenberg Publications.
• Gounari, P. (2009). Rethinking Critical Literacy in the New Information Age. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 6(3), July, 148-175.
• Gounari, P. (2009). Manufacturing Fear: The Violence of Anti-Politics. In Schostak, J. and Schostak Jill (Eds). Researching Violence, Democracy, and the Rights of People. London, UK: Routledge, 180-195.

Research Interests

Politics of language, neoliberal discourses, authoritarian discourses and critical theory, critical pedagogy, bilingualism, and language ideologies

Classes Taught

APLING 614 Foundations of Bilingual/Multicultural Education
APLING 621 Psycholinguistics
APLING 634 Critical Discourse Analysis
APLING 643 Historical Foundations and Contemporary Issues in Critical Pedagogy
APLING 704: Language Policy

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