Critic, translator and literary historian, as well as prolific author and college professor, Thomas Doulis of Portland has authored another book, The Eye: A Novel. Newly published in hardbound, softbound and Ebook formats, it is about a Greek family caught up in intrigue, yet still connected to the ethnic and religious Greek milieu.
Critic, translator and literary historian, as well as prolific author and college professor, Thomas Doulis was born and raised in Pennsylvania. He was a paratrooper in the Army and wrote the field manual on Unconventional Warfare for the Special Forces. After WWII, Doulis taught at the Philadelphia College of Art in Center City until 1968. He and his family traveled for two years to junta-era Greece on a Fulbright, where he studied modern Greek literature and met most of the important writers. Subsequently, the Doulises went to Britain for two years, where he continued his study of Greek History at Oxford University. The family moved to Portland, Oregon in 1972 where Doulis taught at Portland State University until his retirement in 1999. His specializations were in Greek Studies, as well as English, teaching separate courses in Modern Greek Fiction, History, and Culture; in Film Noir, and in Fiction and Film. He also gave seminars on George Seferis and Modern Greek Poetry, and on Nikos Kazantzakis. Doulis’ books include other novels and nonfiction on the Greek Junta, on Greek Immigration, and on the Asia Minor Disaster (1922). He was well-known for his two historical books on Greeks in Oregon.
