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Peter Pericles Trifonas Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto 252 Bloor Street West,

Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1V6

(1) Date of preparation March 13, 2017 (2) Rank Professor Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (3) Degrees

Ph.D., Curriculum & Instruction Center for the Study of Curriculum and Instruction Faculty of Education University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA 1997 Dissertation: The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction and Pedagogy, 1996. Committee: John Willinsky (Chair), Carl Leggo, and Richard Cavell. M.A., English Education Department of Language Education Faculty of Education University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA 1992 B.Ed., English/History Faculty of Education University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA 1984

Peter Pericles Trifonas

B.A., English Literature (Major) and History (Minor) Faculty of Arts and Sciences University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA 1983 (4) Employment History July 2010 – present Professor Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA January 2009 – April 2009 Visiting Professor Department of English Literature and Culture Aristotle University Thessaloniki, GREECE July 2002 – June 2010 Associate Professor Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA July 1998 – June 2002 Assistant Professor Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto Toronto, ON, CANADA September 2002 – December 2002 Visiting Professor Department of English Literature and Culture Aristotle University Thessaloniki, GREECE September 1996 – June 1998 Postdoctoral Fellow Faculty of Education University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA


September 1996 – April 1997 Lecturer Faculty of Education Simon Fraser University Vancouver, BC, CANADA September 1994 – April 1996 Lecturer Department of Language Education Faculty of Education University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA September 1993 – June 1994 Teacher English Department Anatolia College Thessaloniki, GREECE September 1993 – April 1994 Visiting Professor Department of English Literature and Culture Aristotle University Thessaloniki, GREECE September 1991 – April 1993 Lecturer Department of Language Education Faculty of Education University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, CANADA September 1987 – April 1991 Lecturer English Department American College of Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, GREECE September 1987 – April 1991 Teacher English Department Anatolia College Thessaloniki, GREECE


September 1986 – June 1987 Assistant Head English Department St. Lawrence College Athens, GREECE September 1985 – April 1987 Lecturer English Department University of Athens Athens, GREECE September 1984 – April 1987 Lecturer English Department Deree College Athens, GREECE September 1984 – April 1987 Teacher English Department Peirce College Athens, GREECE (5) University Administrative Leadership July 1999 – August 2004 Program Coordinator, M.A.(T.) Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto

January 2001 – December 2003 Program Coordinator, Curriculum Studies, Department of Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto January 2000 – December 2010 Steering Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute University of Toronto (6) Funding Grants (Awarded) Externally Funded Research Grants


YEAR 2008 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Strategic Research Grant AMOUNT $25,000 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE The Digital Game: Cultural Transformations in Learning through Play

YEAR 2004 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Standard Research Grant AMOUNT $166,506 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Philosophy for All

YEAR 2003 SOURCE CANARIE-OLT TYPE Institutional Grant AMOUNT $1,000,000 ROLE Collaborator (w/Knowledge Media Design Institute) TITLE/PURPOSE Online Learning and Knowledge Innovation

YEAR 2002 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Innovations in the New Economy AMOUNT $46,280 ROLE Co-Principal Investigator (w/ Andrew Clement & Leslie Shade) TITLE/PURPOSE Evaluating Online Learning Networks

YEAR 2002 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Innovations in the New Economy AMOUNT $30,000 ROLE Co-Principal Investigator (w/ Andrew Clement & Leslie Shade) TITLE/PURPOSE Collaborative Learning Networks

YEAR 2001 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Standard Research Grant AMOUNT $47,000 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Right to Philosophy


YEAR 2001 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Major Collaborative Research Grant AMOUNT $5,000 ROLE Co-Principal Investigator (w/ Roger Simon) TITLE/PURPOSE Transnational Citizenship

YEAR 2001 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Major Collaborative Research Grant AMOUNT $5,000 ROLE Co-Principal Investigator (w/ Andrew Clement) TITLE/PURPOSE Collaborative Learning Networks

YEAR 2000 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE New Researcher Grant AMOUNT $9,000 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Right to Philosophy

YEAR 1996 SOURCE Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada TYPE Postdoctoral Fellowship Research Grant AMOUNT $70,000 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Curriculum and Difference

Internally Funded Research Grants

YEAR 1999 SOURCE OISE/UT (SSHRC-SGS) TYPE CTL/Research Small Institutional Grant AMOUNT $2,400 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Digital Literacy

YEAR 1999 SOURCE OISE/UT (SSHRC-SIG) TYPE CTL/Research Small Institutional Grant AMOUNT $1,266 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Deconstruction and Education


YEAR 1998 SOURCE Connaught/University of Toronto TYPE Start-Up Grant for New Faculty AMOUNT $10,000 ROLE Principal Investigator TITLE/PURPOSE Technology and Education

(7) Courses Taught CTL1999 Critical Approaches to Narrative offered 2 times CTL1999 Derrida and Education offered 1 time CTL1000 Foundations of Curriculum Studies offered 22 times CTL1023 Technology and Education offered 4 times CTL1024 Poststructuralism and Education offered 10 times CTL1304 Cultural Studies and Education offered 16 times CTL5000 History and Theory of English offered 6 times CTL5003 Approaches to Poetry offered 4 times EDU1000 English Intermediate/Senior offered 6 times EDU 5556 Youth Popular Culture and Schooling offered 16 times Independent Reading/Research Courses supervised 13 (7) Graduate Supervision Graduate Supervisions (completed) PhD 8 MA 9 MA(T) 55 QRP 12 MRP 22 Graduate Supervisions (in progress) PhD 5 MA 1 Graduate Memberships PhD (completed) 31 PhD (in progress) 5 Graduate Supervisions (completed) PhD 1. Themistoklis Aravossitas. (2016). The Hidden Schools: Mapping Greek Heritage

Language Education in Canada.


2. Susan Jagger. (2014). How Does Your Garden Grow? Or, a Poststructural Uprooting of the School Garden.

3. Bryan Wright. (2014). Peace Education: Imag(e)(in)ing a Future in the Aporea of the University. 4. Greg O’Leary. (2008). A Symptomatic Reading of English: Problematizing the Discourses of Three Generations of Curriculum Change. 5. Julia Saric. (2006). Conducting Interdisciplinary Analysis of Youth Literature: A Study of the Witch in Recent Young Adult Novels. 6. Robert Luke. (2004). The Hidden Curriculum of Web Portals: Shaping Participation in Online Networks. 7. Carlo Ricci. (2002). The Ethics of Reading 8. Jason Nolan. (2001). The Technoeducator Effect: Colliding Technology and Education in the Conceptualization of Virtual Learning Environments. MA 1. Cammy Lee. (2015). I Eat; Therefore, I am:Constructing Identities Through Food. 2. Emily Alexandra Dunlop. (2014). Ethnic Difference and Conflict in Burundian Schools:

Experiences of Different Student Generations. 3. Holly Sammut. (2013). Animating Curriculum: An Exploration of Curriculum

Integration. 4. Themistoklis Aravossitas. (2010). From Greek School to Greek's Cool: Heritage

Language Education in Ontario and the Aristoteles Credit Program - Using Weblogs for Teaching the Greek Language in Canada.

5. David Banerjee. (2010). Ideology and Reality: Putting Belief and Behaviour in Context. 6. Gregory O’Leary. (2005) Unlocking the Many 'Voices' of Subject English : A Historical

and Theoretical Analysis of English Curricular Change in Newfoundland and Labrador, April 2005.

7. Jessica Kronis (2004). Conceptualizations and Aesthetics. 8. Susan Sturman. (2002). Toward a Feminist Ethics of Identity in Technoscience. 9. Stephen Maron. (2000). Contentious Area: The Subtleties of Reading Addressing reader

Response.


MA(T) Supervised 55 Students from (1999-2004) Graduate Supervisions (in progress) PhD 1. Emil Marmol. coursework 2. Cammy Lee. coursework 3. David Goldberg. defence 4. Elizabeth Boyle. coursework 5. Ardavan Eizadirad. coursework. MA 1. Mercedes Cardella. coursework Graduate Memberships PhD (completed) 1. François Mifsud. (2016). First Hospitality for Educability:An Ethical, Epistemological,

and Political Symbiotic Relationship.

2. Rocco Ricci. (2016). Informal Learning with Technology: A Narrative of Self-Determined Learning.

3. Efstratia Karagrigoriou. (2012). The Ontario and Hellenic Kindergarten Curricula:

Politics of Democratic Citizenship Education.

4. Kelli Nigh. (2012). Holistic Education: The Flow and Pulse of Learning.

5. Jonathan Patrick Arendt. (2011). Are The[se] Kids Alright?: States of Incarceration and Subordination in the Learning and Lived Experience of Youth in a Juvenile Detention Facility.

6. Steven Bartlett Hales. (2010). Municipal School Curriculum Knowledge Dynamics in

Brazil’s Northeast.

7. Neil Briem Gislason. (2009). School Design: History, Case Studies, and Practice.


8. Marlon Simmons. (2009). Politics of Diaspora.

9. Anton Yasnitsky. (2009). Vygotsky Circle during the decade of 1931-1941: Toward an Integrative Science of Mind, Brain, and Education.

10. Lina Medaglia. (2008).. Cheese Donkey on a Marble Staircase: Stories of Passing in the

Life of an Immigrant Woman.

11. Trevor Norris. (2008). Consuming, Schooling, and the End of Politics: Critical Reflections on Consumerism and School Commercialism.

12. Muhammad Enamul Huque. (2007). Belonging Through Participation: An Exploration of

the Catibana, Pride and Santa Clause Parades in Toronto, 1998-2004.

13. David Hayes. (2006). Making Music Meaning: Youth Investment in Popular Music. 14. James Benjamin Tekyi-Annan. (2005). Educational Technology, Challenges and

Possibilities: A Critical Look at Students’ Computer Use in High School. 15. James Price. (2004). Reclaiming Democracy for the Longschool House. 16. Doug Gosse (2004). Breaking Silences, An Inquiry Into Indentity and the Creative

Research Process.

17. Tracey Bowen. (2002). Translations and Refractions: An Exploration of Making Art by Hand and Computer.

18. Robert White. (2003). The Incorporation of Schooling: The Anatomy of Corporate

Transactions in Canada’s Classrooms. 19.

Mario DiPaolantonio. (2002). Contesting After the Law: Determinations and Possibilities in Trials for Past Wrongs—The Case of Argentina.

20. Joanna Black. (2002). Topsy-Turvy Teacher-Student Relationships in the Information Age: An Examination of Electronic Multimedia Teaching and Learning.

21. Jason Nolan. (2001). The Technoeducator Effect: Colliding Technology and Education

in the Conceptualization of Virtual Learning Environments.

22. Stella Gaon (2001). Politics Pedagogy, and the Decentered Subject: An Inquiry into the Ethical Dimensions of Educational and Political Thought.

23. Lee Paul Easton. (2001). Disciplining a Working Subject: A Case Study of English

Curriculum in Two Canadian Community Colleges.


24. Victoria Littman. (2000). Decolonizing the Look: Viewing Photographic Images of the Civil Rights Movement.

25. Barbara McDonald. (2000). Rereading Anecdotal Moments: Landscape for Un-Making the Teacher.

26. Michelle Byers. (2000). Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Insurgence of Television as a

Performance Text.

27. Rhianon Bury (Ph.D.). Performing Gender on (the) Line: A Case Study of the Process of Community Making Among Members of a Woman-Only Electronic Mailing List.

28. Barbara Karen McDonald. (2000). Rereading Anecdotal Moments: Landscape for UnMaking the Teacher.

29. Jennifer Wooley. (2000). Making Connections: Pre-Reading Response and Mother-

Research from On Family’s Perspective. Ed.D. 30.

Sandra Moffat. (1999). Reading in Both Directions: A Critical Autobiographic Method of Film Interpretation.

31. Claudia Eppert. (1999). Learning Responsivity/Responsibility: Reading the Literatures of

Historical Witness

PhD (in progress) 1. Sarah Truman

2. Ilka Lasevitz

3. Michelle Irwin

4. Bob Spencer

5. Mimi Masson Preservice Student Supervision Supervised 140 students on Teaching Practicum (1998-2002) (8) Publications Lifetime Summary Books 24 Translations-Books 13 Series Editor 1 Special Journal Issues-Editor 3


Section Editor-Journals 9 Book Chapters 58 Journal Articles 44 Technical Reports 2 Conference Proceedings 1 Technical Reports 2

Books 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (forthcoming 2019). International Handbook of Cultural

Studies in Education. Netherlands: Springer. [Under contract] 2. Peter Pericles Trifonas and Susan L. Jagger. (eds.). (forthcoming 2018). Handbook of

Cultural Studies and Education. New York: Routledge. [Under contract] 3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (forthcoming 2018). Converging Literacies. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. [under contract] 4. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Themistoklis Aravossitas. (eds.). (2017). International

Handbook of Heritage Language Education. Vol 1&2. Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1222. 5. Jacques Derrida & Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2016). Deconstructing the Machine. Toronto:

PostTexte. Pp. 200 6. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Effie Balomenos. (2016). Good Taste: How What You Choose

Define Who You Are. 2nd Edition. Toronto: PostTexte. Pp. 372. 7. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). CounterTexts: Reading Culture. Toronto: PostTexte. Pp.

176. 8. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (eds.). (2015). International Handbook of Semiotics. Vol. 1 & 2.

Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1308. 9. Peter Peircles Trifonas & Themistoklis Aravossitas. (2014). Rethinking Heritage

Language Education. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 294 10. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright. (eds.). (2013). Critical Peace Education:

Difficult Dialogues. Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 172 11. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2012). Living the Virtual Life: Converging Literacies,

Digital Culture and Public Pedagogy. New York: Routledge. Pp. 232. 12. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright. (eds.). (2011). Critical Issues in Peace and

Education. New York: Routledge. Pp. 168.


13. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2007) Worlds of Difference: Rethinking the Ethics of Education in the 21st Century. New York and London: Paradigm Publishers. Pp 272

14. Joel Weiss, Jason Nolan, Jeremy Hunsinger, & Peter Pericles Trifonas. (eds.). (2006).

International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments. Vol. 1 & 2. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Pp. 1615.

15. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2005). Communities of Difference: Culture, Language,

Technology. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 231. 16. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Michael A. Peters. (eds.). (2005). Deconstructing Derrida:

Tasks for the New Humanities. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 232. 17. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Michael A. Peters (eds.). (2004). Derrida, Deconstruction, and

Education: Ethics of Pedagogy and Research. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 124.

18. Peter Trifonas & Effie Balomenos. (2003). Good Taste: How What you Choose Defines Who You Are. Published by Icon Books and Faber & Faber in the UK, Penguin in Canada, Allen & Unwin in Australasia. Pp. 260.

19. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2003). Pedagogies of Difference: Rethinking Education for

Social Justice. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 245 20. Jacques Derrida & Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to

Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp.111 21. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). Barthes and the Empire of Signs. New York: Penguin.

Pp. 80. 22. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). Umberto Eco and Football. New York: Penguin. Pp. 80. 23. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2000). The Ethics of Writing: Derrida, Deconstruction, and

Pedagogy. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. 24. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2000). Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics,

Instituting Education, and the Discourse of Theory. New York: Routledge Falmer. Translations-Books 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Effie Balomenos. Good Taste: How What you Choose Defines

Who You are (Icon Books, 2003). Translations: Chinese, China Citic Press; Romanian, House of Guides.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas. Barthes and the Empire of Signs (Penguin, 2001). Translations: Turkish, Artemis Yayinlari; Korean, EJ Books; Spanish, Gedisa Editorial; Japanese, Iwanami Shoten; Croatian, Jesenski and Turk Publishers.


3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. Umberto Eco and Football (Penguin, 2001). Translations:

Turkish, Artemis Yayinlari; Serbian, Esotheria; Korean, EJ Books; Spanish, Gedisa Editorial; Japanese, Iwanami Shoten; Bulgarian, Ciela Publishing House.

Series Editor 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (forthcoming 2018). Studies in Semiotics. Netherlands: Springer Special Journal Issues-Editor 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (forthcoming 2018). “The Future of Semiotics.” Semiotica. 2. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2009). “Jacques Derrida and the Institution of Education: A Symposium.” Educational Theory, 59(3). 3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (ed.). (2003). “Derrida and the Philosophy of Education.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35(3). Section Editor-Journal 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2008). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 25(2). 2. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2008). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 25(1). 3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2008). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 24(1). 4. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol 22 (6). 5. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 22 (4). 6. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol 22 (3). 7. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2004). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 20 (4) (Winter 2004 8. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2004). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 20 (1). 9. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “Studies in Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing. Vol. 19 (3).


Book Chapters. 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (in press). “The Post-Human Crisis.” In A Handbook of Critical

Pedagogy, edited by Shirley R. Steinberg, Barry Down, Sandy Grande and Dara Nix- Stevenson. UK: Sage.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Susan Jagger. (in press). “Critical Philosophy and Childhood

Studies.” In A Handbook of Critical Pedagogy, edited by Shirley R. Steinberg, Barry Down, Sandy Grande and Dara Nix- Stevenson. UK: Sage.

3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (in press). “Digital Globalization the Ends of Education.” In

Precarity within the Digital Age: Media Change and Social Insecurity, edited by David Kergel and Birte Heidkamp. Netherlands: Springer.

4. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (in press). “Peaceful Resolutions.” In Encyclopedia of

Educational Philosophy and Theory, edited by Michael A. Peters. Netherlands: Springer 5. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (in press). “Technocracy, Education, and the Global Imperative.”

In Media Literacy 2.0: From Classroom Praxis to Educational Materials to Critical Engagement, edited by Paul R. Carr, Michael Hoechsmann & Gina Thésée. Netherlands: Sense.

6. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Themistoklis Aravossitas. (2017). “Heritage and Language:

Cultural Diversity and Education.” In International Handbook of Heritage Language Education. Vol 1&2. Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1-52.

7. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Susan Jagger. (2017). “Derrida and the Ethics of Reading.” In

Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory, edited by Michael A. Peters. Netherlands: Springer. Presently available at:

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_29-1 8. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2017). “Deconstruction, Philosophy, Education.” In


https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_29-1 9. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2017). “Derrida and the Philosophy of Education.” In


https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-981-287-532-7_29-1 10. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2016). “Deus ex Machina.” In Deconstructing the Machine

by Jacques Derrida and Peter Pericles Trifonas. Toronto: PostText. Pp. 1-10.

11. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2016). “13 Missives.” In Deconstructing the Machine by Jacques Derrida and Peter Pericles Trifonas. Toronto: PostText. Pp. 55-110.


12. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2016). “The Role of the Reader: Remembering the Possible

Worlds of Umberto Eco.” In Edusemiotics: A Handbook, edited by Inna Semetsky. Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 179-192.

13. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). “Apologia.” In International Handbook of Semiotics,

Vols. 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1-29.

14. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). “Crafting the Literature of Semiotic Possibility: From the Metaphysical to the Detective story in The Name of the Rose.” In International Handbook of Semiotics. Volumes 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 239-264.

15. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). “Reading the Subject of History: From Semiology to

Poststructuralism.” In International Handbook of Semiotics, Vols. 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 837-846.

16. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). From Semantics to Narrative: The Semiotics of A. J.

Greimas.” In International Handbook of Semiotics, Vols. 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1099-1108

17. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). “Texts and Images.” In International Handbook of

Semiotics, Vols. 1&2, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1139-1154.

18. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Themistoklis Aravossitas. (2014). “Introduction.” In Rethinking

Heritage Language Education, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas & Themistoklis Aravossitas. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 1-9.

19. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2013). “Approaching Difference from the Cosmopolitical Point

of View: Deconstruction and the Logic of the Postcolonial.” In Postcolonialism and Education: Challenging Traditions and Disputing Boundaries, edited by Derek Mulenga. New York: St. Martins. Pp. 235-260.

20. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2012). “What are we willing to Know: Deconstructing

UNESCO.” In Educating for Democratic Consciousness: Counter-Hegemonic Possibilities, edited by Ali A. Abdi and Paul R. Carr. New York: Peter Lang. Pp. 136-150.

21. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2011). “Preface.” In Learning the Virtual Life: Public

Pedagogy in a Digital World, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. ix-xxvi

22. Robert Luke and Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2011). “The Future of Learning and the Virtual Life of Knowledge.” In Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York: Routledge Falmer. P. 147-160.


23. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2011). “The Digital Game as a Learning Space.” In Learning the Virtual Life: Public Pedagogy in a Digital World, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 198-205.

24. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Elefteria Balomenos. (2011). “Poststructuralism, Difference,

and Critical Pedagogy”. In Critical Pedagogy in the New Dark Ages, edited by Maria Nikolakaki. New York and London: Peter Lang. Pp. 213-229.

25. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Bryan Wright. (2011). “Introduction.” In Critical Issues in

Peace and Education, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas and Bryan Wright. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 1-8.

26. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2011). “On Human Rights, Philosophy, and Education: The Ethics of Difference After Deconstruction.” In Critical Issues in Peace and Education, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas and Bryan Wright. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 71-81.

27. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2010). “I'm in Love with My Car.” In Boy Culture: An

Encyclopedia, edited by Shirley R. Steinberg & Michael Kehler. New York: Greenwood Publishing.

28. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2010). “The Sneaker Wars.” In Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia,

edited by Shirley R. Steinberg & Michael Kehler. New York: Greenwood Publishing.

29. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2010). “Wrestling with Shadows.” In Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by Shirley R. Steinberg & Michael Kehler. New York: Greenwood Publishing.

30. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2010). “The iPod.” In Boy Culture: An Encyclopedia, edited by

Shirley R. Steinberg & Michael Kehler. New York: Greenwood Publishing. 31. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Digital Games and Public Pedagogy.” In Handbook for

Public Pedagogy: Education and Learning Beyond Schooling, edited by Jennifer Sandlin and Brian Schultz. New York and London: Routledge, pp. 179-185.

32. Peter Pericles Trifonas and Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. (2008). “Learning the Real, Teaching the

Virtual II: From Technology to Worlds of Difference.” In Worlds of Difference: Rethinking the Ethics of Education in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York and London: Paradigm Publishers. Pp 179-198.

33. Peter Pericles Trifonas. “Introduction.” In Worlds of Difference: Rethinking the Ethics of Education in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York and London: Paradigm Publishers. Pp. 1-9.


34. Peter Pericles Trifonas and Gregory O’Leary. (2008). “Moving Beyond the Modernist/Postmodernist Binary: Toward a Cosmopolitical Pedagogy and a New Academic Responsibility.” In Worlds of Difference: Rethinking the Ethics of Education in the 21st Century, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York and London: Paradigm Publishers. Pp. 237-261.

35. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Greg O’Leary. (2008). “The Difference of Critical Literacy: A

Diverse Discourse Dialogue on ‘Taken-For-Granted Practices’ in English Education.” In Critical Literacy in Action, edited by Karyn Cooper and Robert White. Netherlands: SenseBooks. Pp. 186-206.

36. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Effie Balomenos. (2006). “Kinder Culture and Marketing:

From Toys to Harry Potter.” In Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, edited by Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, and Birgit Richard. New York: Greenwood. Pp. 234-239

37. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). Public Pedagogy as Spectacle: The Case of Professional

Wrestling. In Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, edited by Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, and Birgit Richard. New York: Greenwood. Pp. 454-461.

38. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Grant Wilson. (2006). “Pop Fiction and Literacy.” In

Contemporary Youth Culture: An International Encyclopedia, edited by Shirley Steinberg, Priya Parmar, and Birgit Richard. New York: Greenwood. Pp. 604-609.

39. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Engaging the Disney Effect: The Cultural Production of

Escapism and Utopia in Media.” In International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments, Vol. 1 & 2, edited by Joel Weiss, Jason Nola, Jeremy Hunsinger, & Peter Pericles Trifonas. The Netherlands: Springer. Pp. 1107-1119.

40. Michael A. Peters & Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2005). “The Humanities in

Deconstruction.” In New Tasks for the Humanities, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas & Michael Peters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 1-10.

41. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2005). “Ourselves as Another: Cosmopolitical Humanities.” In

New Tasks for the Humanities, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas & Michael Peters. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 5-20.

42. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Effie Balomenos. (2005) “Crossing the Postmodern Conditions

that Divide: Locating Difference and the Cultural Politics of Emancipation in Critical Pedagogy.” In Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology. edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 147-164.

43. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2005) “Communities of Difference: A Preface to Ourselves as

Another.” In Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology. edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.1-7.


44. Peter Pericles Trifonas and Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. (2005). “Loving the Real, Theorizing the

Virtual I: Toward a Postmodern Techno-Epistemology.” In Communities of Difference: Culture, Language, Technology. edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York & London: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp.215-228.

45. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2004). “Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education.” In Peter

Pericles Trifonas & Michael A. Peters (eds.). (2004). Derrida, Deconstruction, and Education: Ethics of Pedagogy and Research. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 1-2.

46. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2004). “The Ethics of Science and/as Research: Deconstruction

and the Orientations of a New Academic Responsibility”. In Peter Pericles Trifonas & Michael A. Peters (eds.). (2004). Derrida, Deconstruction, and Education: Ethics of Pedagogy and Research. Oxford: Blackwell. Pp. 31-41.

47. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). Toward a Deconstructive Pedagogy of Différance. In

Pedagogies of Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Change, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 220-235.

48. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “Pedagogies of Difference: Locating Otherness.” In

Pedagogies of Difference: Rethinking Education for Social Change, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 1-9.

49. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). The Postmodern Condition: Lyotard’s Futurology. In

Futures of Critical Theory: Dreams of Difference edited by Michael A. Peters., Mark Olssen, and Colin Lankshear. New York: Peter Lang. Pp. 155-168.

50. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). “Prologue.” In Peter Pericles Trifonas & Jacques Derrida,

Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp., 1-9.

51. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). What Comes Next? Or After Difference: Meditations on

the Debt and Duty to the Right of Philosophy. In Peter Pericles Trifonas & Jacques Derrida, Ethics, Institutions, and the Right to Philosophy. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Pp., 47-118.

52. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Ethics, Deconstruction, Philosophy.” In Encyclopaedia

of the Philosophy of Education, edited by Michael Peters and Paulo Ghirarldelli Jr. http://www.educacao.pro.br

53. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Teaching the Other II: Ethics, Writing, Community.”

In Derrida and Education, edited by Gert Biesta and Denise Égea-Kuehne. New York & London: Routledge Falmer. Pp. 98-118.


54. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Difference, Différance, and the Post-Metaphysical Subject.” In Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Education, edited by Michael Peters and Paulo Ghirarldelli Jr. http://www.educacao.pro.br

55. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2000). “Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Education.” In

Encyclopaedia of the Philosophy of Education, edited by Michael Peters and Paulo Ghirarldelli Jr. http://www.educacao.pro.br

56. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2000). “Introduction.” In Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural

Politics , Instituting Education,and the Discourse of Theory, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York and London: Routledge. Pp. ix-xxv.

57. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2000). “Technologies of Reason: The Grounding of Academic

Responsibility Beyond the Principle of Reason as the Metaphysical Foundation of the University.” In Revolutionary Pedagogies: Cultural Politics , Instituting Education,and the Discourse of Theory, edited by Peter Pericles Trifonas. New York and London: Routledge. Pp. 192-237.

58. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1998). “The Ends of Pedagogy: From the Dialectic of Memory

to the Deconstruction of the Institution.” In Naming the Multiple: Poststructuralism and Education, edited by Michael A. Peters. New York: Bergin and Garvey. Pp. 103-148.

Journal Articles 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (in press). “A Meditation in Two Parts: Deconstruction and the

Scene of Teaching.” Studies in Philosophy and Education. 2. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2016). “Writing and Différance.” Semiotica, 2016(1):81-96.

3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Paradigms Lost: Deconstructing Research.”

International Journal of Research and Method in Education, 32(3): 299–310. 4. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Prolegomena to a New Academic Responsibility: The

Cosmopolitical University.” Educational Theory, 59(3): 313-326. 5. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Jacques Derrida and the Institution of Education: A

Symposium.” Educational Theory, 59 (3): 253-257. 6. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Culture and Difference: Heterologies of the Other.”

JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 25(2): 107-109. 7. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2009). “Digital Literacy and Public Pedagogy: Notes on The

Digital Game as a Form of Literacy and Learning.” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 25(1): 126-132.


8. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2008). “The Cosmopolitical: From the Deconstructive Point of View.” Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 24(1): 71-73.

9. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Elefteria Balomenos. (2008). “The Merchandizing of Identity:

The Cultural Politics of Representation in the “I Am Canadian” Beer Campaign.” Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education, 12: 38-50.

10. Peter Peircles Trifonas. (2007). “The Aesthetics of Textual Producation: Reading and

Writing with Umberto Eco.” Studies in Philosophy and Education, 26 (3): 267-277. 11. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “On Knowledge, Science, and Epistemological

Postmodernity.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 22(4): 135-140. 12. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Emilio Landolfi. (Winter 2006). “A Dialogue on Knowledge,

Science, and Techno-Epistemology Postmodernity.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 22(4): 141-148.

13. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Deconstruction and the Philosophy of Childhood.” JCT:

Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 22(3): 113-119. 14. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2006). “Curriculum in Deconstruction: A Nostalgia for the

Future.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 22(1): 99-110.

15. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Grant Wilson. (2006). “Pop Fiction and Literacy II: From Imagination to Cultural Commodity.” Orbit, 36 (1): 34-36.

16. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Blane Dépres. (2004). “Teaching Education and the Virtual.” E-Learning and Digital Media, 1(2): 184-197.

17. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Paulo Ghiraldelli Jr. (2004). “Experience, Reason, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 20(4): 141-146.

18. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2004). “Auditing Education: Deconstruction and the Archiving of Knowledge as Curriculum.” Parallax, 10(2): 38-50.

19. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (Spring 2004). “Postmodernism, Poststructuralism, Difference.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 20(1): 151-163.

20. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “Who’s Afraid of Philosophy: Derrida and Philosophy of Education.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35(3): 255–256.

21. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “The Ethics of Science and/as Research: Deconstruction and the Orientations of a New Academic Responsibility.” Educational Philosophy and Theory, 35 (3): 285-295.


22. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “What is Semiotics?” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 19(1): 149-158.

23. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “Derrida, Lyotard, and the Orientations of a New Academic Responsibility.” Democracy and Nature, 9(1): 107-124.

24. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2003). “Text to Images: The Aesthetics of Pictorial Signs.” SIMILE: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education, 3(2): 1-5.

25. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). Deconstruction and the Deaths of Philosophy: Of

Metaphysics and the Mourning of the Archive. Surfaces, IX. http://www.pum.umontral.ca/revues/surfaces/vol9

26. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (Fall 2002). “Reading Culture: Intellectual History After the Semiotic Turn.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol. 18 (3): 125-132.

27. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). “A Natural Perspective: The Educational Legacy of Northrop Frye.” English Quarterly, 33-34.

28. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). “Semiosis and the Picture Book: On Method and the

Cross-Medial Relation of Lexical and Visual Narrative Texts.” AppliedSemiotics/Sémiotique Appliqué, 11/12.

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/french/as-sa?ASSA-11-12/article4en.html 29. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2002). “The Writing of History.” Taboo: The Journal of

Culture and Education, 6(1): 109-112. 30. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Teaching the Other/Writing the Other: Derrida and the

Ethics of the Ethnographic Text.” Social Semiotics, 11(3): 325-341. 31. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Loving the Letter, Teaching the Truth: Creating a

‘Community of the Question’ in the English Education Classroom.” Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education, 1(4). http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=simile/issue4/trifonas.html

32. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Monstrous Lessons: The Educational Legacy of

Imperialism.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 22(1): 105-114. 33. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2001). “Simulations of Culture: Disney and the Crafting of

American Popular Culture.” Educational Researcher, 30(1): 23-28. 34. Peter Pericles Trifonas (2000). “Jacques Derrida as a Philosopher of Education.”

Educational Philosophy and Theory, 32(3): 271-281.


35. Peter Pericles Trifonas (2000). “Derrida and Rousseau: Deconstructing the Ethics of a Pedagogy of the Supplement.” Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies, 22(2): 243-265.

36. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1999). “Deconstructive Psychographies: Ethical Discourse and

the Institution of the University.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 20(2): 181-199.

37. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1999). “The Subject of Différance: Re-Writing the Ethicity of

the Sign.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 15(3): 43-51. 38. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1999). “Crafting the Literature of Semiotic Possibility: From the

Metaphysical to the Detective Story in The Name of the Rose.” International Journal of Applied Semiotics, 1(1): 27-58.

39. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1998). “Cross-mediality and Narrative Textual Form: A

Semiotic Analysis of the Lexical and Visual Signs and Codes of the Picture Book.” Semiotica, 118 (1/2): 1-70.

40. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1998). “Reason Unbound: Toward a Re-Grounding of the

Metaphysical Foundations of the University.” Educational Theory, 48(3): 395-409. 41. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1996). “The Ends of Pedagogy: From the Dialectic of Memory

to the Deconstruction of the Institution.” Educational Theory, 46(3): 303-333. 42. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1995). “Objectivity, Subjectivity, and Relativism: The Case for

Qualitative Methodologies in Educational Research,” Journal of Educational Thought, 29(1): 81-101.

43. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1993). “The Marks on the Page: Conceptions of Text and

Textuality in Literary Theory from Structuralism to Poststructuralism,” Interchange, 24(4): 381-395.

44. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (1993). “Current Trends in Literacy Research.” Educational

Insights, 2: 24-31. Technical Reports 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas et. al. (2001). Report on Curriculum for Media Studies, Additional

Qualifications Course, Part 1. Ontario College of Teachers/Ministry of Education.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas et. al. (2001). Report on Curriculum for Media Studies, Additional Qualifications Course, Part 2. Ontario College of Teachers/Ministry of Education.


Conference Proceedings 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas and Themistoklis Aravossitas. (eds,). (forthcoming 2018).

Rethinking, Language, Diversity and Education. (9) Conference Papers and Presentations 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Susan Jagger. (2017). Towards a New Ecology of Curriculum:

An Education Yet-To-Come. Paper Presented at the “Provoking Curriculum” Conference, Montreal, Canada.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas AERA. (2016). Extreme Theory. Paper presented at the annual

meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Chicago, USA.

3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (2015). A Language Manifesto. Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education, Rhodes, Greece.

4. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (May 2015). Converging Literacies. Paper Presented at the

“Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” Conference. Rhodes, Greece.

5. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (May 2015). Language and Difference. Paper Presented at the “Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” Conference. Rhodes, Greece.

6. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (May 2015). Technologies of Language. Paper Presented at the

“Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” Conference. Rhodes, Greece.

7. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (May 2015). Afterwords. Paper Presented at the “Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education” Conference. Rhodes, Greece.

8. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (November 2009). In Memoriam: Remembering Joe Kincheloe.

Symposium at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

9. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Jingshun Zhang (March 2008). A Study of Online Assessment. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New York, USA.

10. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (October 2007). What Are We Willing to Know? Paper presented

at the First International Conference of Critical Pedagogy, Democracy, Social Justice and Education, University of Volos, Volos, Greece.

11. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Greg O’Leary. (April 2006). After Literacy. Paper presented at

the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum, Berkeley, USA.


12. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Greg O’Leary. (April 2005). After English. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Curriculum, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

13. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (February 2005). Youth, Popular Culture, Media. Paper presented

at the “Reading for the Love of It” Conference, Toronto, Canada. 14. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (February 2005). Deconstructing Media. Paper presented at the

“Reading for the Love of It” Conference, Toronto, Canada. 15. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (November 2001). Shakespeare and the Teaching of English.

Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece. 16. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (November 2001). The Cosmopolitical Subject. Paper presented

at the first annual meeting of the Transformative Pedagogy Conference, OISE/UT, Toronto, Canada.

17. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (April 2000). What Are we Willing to Know?: The Future of

Curriculum. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, USA.

18. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 1999). The Subject of Difference: Notes Toward the Post-Age of Curriculum. Paper presented at the Philosophy of Education and Internationalization of Curriculum Conference, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA.

19. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (April 1998). Derrida and Education. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, USA.

20. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Doug Aoki. (June 1998). Teaching as Theory. Paper presented

at a joint session of the Canadian Society of Sociology and Anthropology/Canadian Society for Studies in Education, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada.

21. Peter Pericles Trifonas & Blane Després. (April 1998). Teaching the Virtual. Paper

presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego, California, USA.

22. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1997). Teaching the Other: Derrida and Ethnography.

Paper presented at the Ethics in Education Conference, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

23. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (October 1996). Crossmedial Semiotics in the Picture Book.

Paper presented at the Semiotics as a Bridge Between the Humanities and Sciences Conference, University of Toronto, Canada.


24. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (October 1995). The Ends of Pedagogy. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the JCT Conference on Curriculum Theory and Classroom Practice, Monteagle, Tennessee, USA.

25. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (April 1994). Conceptions of Text and Textuality: Reading Signs.

Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece.

26. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (April 1990). Teaching Language/Teaching Literature. Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece.

27. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1994). Conceptions of Text and Textuality: Reading Signs. Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece.

28. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1987). Using Non-Abridged Literature to Teach Language. Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece.

29. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1987). Teaching Writing in Another Language. Paper presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece.

30. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1987). Shakespeare and the Teaching of English. Paper

presented at the TESOL-Greece Conference, Athens, Greece. 31. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 1986). Teaching Writing. Paper presented at the TESOL-

Greece Conference, Athens, Greece. Invited University/Academic Presentations 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 2017). Reconceptualizing Curriculum. School Early

Childhood Studies, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (November 2016). Language and Difference. Greek Student Society, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.

3. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (October 2016). Rethinking Language, Diversity and Education.

Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

4. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (November 2015). Cultural Studies and Education. Department of Curriculum, Teaching and Learning, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

5. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (February 2015). Heritage Language Education. Munk School of

Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

6. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 2014). Language and Culture. Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.


7. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 2013). Philosophy for All. Department of Education, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

8. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 2013). Philosophy and Literature. Department of

English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 9. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 2012). Language, Technology, and Education.

Department of Education, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, Greece. 10. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 2010). Philosophy of Education. Department of

Education, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

11. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (March 2008). Critical Pedagogy: Archeologies of Difference. McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

12. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 2007). The Right to Philosophy. Department of

Education, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 13. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 2007). Critical Literacy. Faculty of Education, Brock

University, St. Catherines, ON.

14. Peter Pericles Trifonas (January 2006). Poststructural Education. School of Education, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.

15. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 2006). Converging Literacies. Faculty of Education, Brock

University, St. Catherines, ON.

16. Peter Pericles Trifonas (September 2006). The Right to Philosophy. Faculty of Education, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

17. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 2003). What Are We willing to Know. Faculty of Education, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

18. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 2003). The Right to Philosophy. Department of

Educational Studies. University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

19. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 2002). Open Source Learning. Faculty of Education, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

20. Peter Pericles Trifonas. (May 2002). Digital Literacies/Converging Literacies.

Humanizing Technology. Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

21. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 2001). What is Curriculum? The Michener Institute of

Applied Health Sciences, Toronto, Canada.


22. Peter Pericles Trifonas (April 2001). Curriculum and Technology, The Michener Institute of Applied Health Sciences, Toronto, Canada.

23. Peter Pericles Trifonas (April 2001). Humanizing Technology. Knowledge Media Design

Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. 24. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 2000). Deconstructing Technology. Knowledge Media

Design Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada 25. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 2000). Response and Responsibility. Language and

Literacy Department, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 26. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 1998). Teaching the Other/Writing the Other. Center

for Social Justice and Education, OISE/UT, Toronto, Canada.

27. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1998). A Community of the Question in the Language Arts Classroom. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.

28. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 1998). The Ethics of Deconstruction. Center for the Study

of Curriculum & Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 29. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 1997). Deconstruction and Pedagogy. Center for the

Study of Curriculum & Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 30. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 1996). Poststructuralism and Education. Center for

the Study of Curriculum & Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

31. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 1994). What is Semiotics? Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

32. Peter Pericles Trifonas (April 1994). Reading the Archive of the Other: Towards and

Ethics of Reading. Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

33. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1994). Postcolonial Theory and Poststructuralism.

Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece. 34. Peter Pericles Trifonas (April 1993). Derrida and Kant: Economimesis and the Sublime.

Department of Comparative Literature, University of California-Irvine, Irvine, CA. 35. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 1993). Postcolonial Theory in Practice. Department of

English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.


Peter Pericles Trifonas (December 1993). Derrida and the Ethics of Reading. Department of English, University of Athens, Athens, Greece.

36. Peter Pericles Trifonas (September 1993). Postcolonial Theory and the Teaching of English Literature. Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

37. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1992). Critical Theory, Ethics, and Education. Center for the Study of Curriculum & Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

38. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1991). Responding to Literature: Critical Perspectives Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.

39. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1991). Language, Literature, and Mind. British Council, Thessaloniki, Greece.

40. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1991). Theories of Text and Textuality. Department of

English, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 41. Peter Pericles Trifonas (January 1987). Canadian Poetry. Department of English,

University of Athens, Athens, Greece. 42. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 1987). Reading Poetry. Department of English, University

of Athens, Athens, Greece. 43. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1987). Teaching Language Through Literature. British

Council, Athens, Greece. 44. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1987). Symposium on Expository Prose. Department of

English, Deree College, Athens, Greece.

45. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1986). Symposium on Teaching Composition. Department of English, Deree College, Athens, Greece.

46. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 1986). Reading Poetry: Applying Critical Perspectives.

Department of English, University of Athens, Athens, Greece. (10) Academic/University Service Committees Ethics Review Board, University of Toronto (2015-present) Promotions Committee (2009-2014) Ph.D. Oral Committee (2009-2011)


Curriculum Program Graduate Admission Evaluation (2009-2015) Awards and Scholarship Committee (2004- 2009) Admissions, Awards, and Programs Committee (2006-2014) CTL Admissions Sub-Committee (2006-2009) Tenure Committee for Karyn Cooper (2008) Tenure Committee for Heather Sykes (2006) Graduate Awards Committee (2003-2005) English Education Search Committee (2002) PTR Committee (2002-2005) Comprehensive Examination Committee (2000-present) Comprehensive Examination Committee (1998-2005) Search Committee, University of Toronto Schools (1998-2002) Graduate Assistant Committee (1998-1999) Steering Committee, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto (1998-2010). Other Scholarly and Professional Activities Editorial Positions 1. Section Editor. (1999-2008). “Philosophy, Ethics, and Education.” JCT: Journal of Curriculum Theorizing.

2. Section Editor. (2008-2009). Handbook of Cultural Politics and Education. Rotterdam: SensePublishers. Member of Editorial Boards Educational Philosophy and Theory (1999-present) Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies (1999-present) Curriculum Inquiry (2007-present) Derrida Today (2007-present) Taboo: The Journal of Culture and Education (2008-present) Journal of Unschool and Alternative Learning (2009-present) Educational Theory (2006-2012) Journal of Educational Computing (1999-present) International Journal of Applied Semiotics (1999-2009) Journal of Preservice Education (2008-present) International Journal of Critical Pedagogy (2007-present) McGill Journal of Education (2006-2010) SIMILE: Studies in Media & Information Literacy Education (1999-pr) Program Consultations 1. Heritage Language Program Evaluation, Hellenic Community of Toronto, Toronto,

Canada (2009-2016)


2. Career Planning Online Curriculum, TVO, Toronto, Canada (2001-2002)

3. Graduate Program Design, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (2000-2002)

4. Curriculum Development and Evaluation, The Michener Institute, Toronto, Canada

(2000-2001) 5. Project Achieve, School Net, Toronto, Canada (2000-2001)

6. Media Studies Additional Qualifications Curriculum Development, Ontario College of

Teachers, Toronto, Canada (2000-2001)

7. Heritage Language Program Evaluation, Aristotle Hellenic School, Vancouver, Canada (1997-1998)

8. Heritage Language Program Evaluation, Hellenic Community of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada (1994-1996)

9. Undergraduate Program Evaluation, Department of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece (1993-94)

Professional Workshops and Presentations 1. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 1999). The Academic Job Search. Student Services

Employment Series, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

2. Peter Pericles Trifonas (April 1998). What Comes Next?: The Academic Job Search.

Center for the Study of Curriculum & Instruction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada .

3. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1997). Academic Publishing. Department of Sociology,

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

4. Peter Pericles Trifonas (June 1994). Literacy and Language Teaching. Department of English, British Council, Thessaloniki, Greece.

5. Peter Pericles Trifonas (October 1993). Decoding the Signs: Reading in Another Tongue.

Department of English, Anatolia College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

6. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 1993). What is a Text?: Teaching the Reading and Writing of Language. Department of English, Anatolia College, Thessaloniki, Greece.

7. Peter Pericles Trifonas (March 1992). Teaching Language Through Literature.

Department of English, Bodwell College, Vancouver, Canada.


8. Peter Pericles Trifonas (November 1992). Towards a Heritage Language Curriculum.

Hellenic Community of Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada.

9. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1989). Using Improvisation to Teach Language. Department of English, Athens College, Athens, Greece.

10. Peter Pericles Trifonas (May 1988). Using Drama to Teach Language. Department of

English, Athens College, Athens, Greece.

11. Peter Pericles Trifonas (January 1986). Teaching Writing through Literature. Department of English, American Community Schools, Athens, Greece.

12. Peter Pericles Trifonas (December 1986). Interpreting Literature/Reading Texts.

Department of English, St. Lawrence College, Athens, Greece.

13. Peter Pericles Trifonas (February 1985). Teaching Writing. Department of English, Deree College, Athens, Greece.

(11) Honors and Awards 1. New Researcher Award. (1999-2000). Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council

of Canada.

2. “Professor of the Year.” (nomination 1999-2000). Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

3. Postdoctoral Fellowship Award. (1996-1998) Social Sciences and Humanities Research

Council of Canada $70,000.

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