Stratos Constantinidis

 

Professor

Ohio State University

Department of Theatre

 


 

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1984 Department of Communication and Theatre Arts, University of Iowa

 


 

II. Areas of Specialization

            Modern Greek Theatre and Cinema

               1. COMPARATIVE: Critical Theory, Historiography, and Literature

               2. EPISTEMOLOGICAL: Method and explanation in Performance Studies

               3. CREATIVE: Playwriting, translation, adaptation, dramaturgy, screenwriting

 


 

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

 

1. Undergraduate courses:

DRAMA IN WESTERN CULTURE (36T:051); 4 semester credit hours; 2-semester course; University of Iowa, Autumn 1981, Spring 1982.

COMEDY AND TRAGEDY (11:012); 3 semester hours; University of Iowa, Spring 1983.

LITERATURE OF THE THEATRE (8G:8); 3 semester hours; University of Iowa, Autumn 1983.

INTERPRETATION OF LITERATURE (11:1); 3 semester hours; University of Iowa, Autumn 1982, Spring 1984.

THE IDEA OF COMEDY (8G:5); 3 semester hours; University of Iowa, Autumn 1983, Spring 1985.

DECADES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: ROBOTS AND REBELS IN DRAMA (49:113); 3 semester hours; University of Iowa, Spring 1985.

ELEMENTARY MODERN GREEK (103A); 4 semester hours; University of Arizona, Autumn 1985.

INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK (203A); 4 semester hours; University of Arizona, Autumn 1985.

ELEMENTARY TO INTERMEDIATE MODERN GREEK (103B); 4 semester hours; University of Arizona, Spring 1986.

INTERMEDIATE TO ADVANCED MODERN GREEK (203B); 4 semester hours; University of Arizona, Spring 1986.

COMEDY AND POLITICS (133x); 3 semester hours; University of Arizona, Spring 1986.

INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE (100); 5 quarter credit hours; Ohio State University, Winter 1987.

INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE--HONORS (H100); 3-5 quarter hours; Ohio State University, Winter 1987, Autumn 1998, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2003, Spring 2004.

FUNDAMENTALS OF SCRIPT ANALYSIS (210); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1988, 1989, Winter 1990, 1991.

THEATRE REPERTORY I (531); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1986, 1987, 1989, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2004.

THEATRE REPERTORY II (532); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1987, 1988, 2004.

THEATRE REPERTORY III (533); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2004.

 

         2.  Graduate Courses:

THEATRE TOPICS (671); 5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1997.

CONTEMPORARY THEATRE HISTORY (674); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1987.

MODERN GREEK DRAMA (694); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1995.

THEATRICAL AND CINEMATIC STYLES (762); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1991, 1992.

RESEARCH METHODS (801); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1996.

SEMINAR IN THEATRE CRITICISM: DECONSTRUCTION  (802.06); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1989, 1992, 1993.

SEMINAR IN THEATRE CRITICISM: RECYCLING THE CLASSICS (802.06); 5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1996, Winter 2000.

SEMINAL MODERN DRAMA (833); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1988, Spring 1995.

MODERN DRAMA (833); 5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1996.

CONTEMPORARY DRAMA (834); 3 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1987, 1999.

THEATRE CRITICISM I (860/864); 3-5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Winter 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2002, 2004.

THEATRE CRITICISM II (861/865); 3-5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994; Winter 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003.

THEATRE CRITICISM III (863/866; 3-5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1986, 1987, 1997, 2003.

GREEK, ROMAN, AND MEDIEVAL DRAMA (871; 5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Autumn 1999.

INDIVIDUAL STUDIES (693 and 893); 3-5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1987, 1990, 1991; Autumn 1989, 1990, 1992; Winter 1987, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1993; Summer 1991, Autumn 1992, Winter 1993, Spring 1993, Winter 1994, Autumn 1994, Winter 1995, Spring  1995, Winter 1996, Winter 1998, Autumn 1999; Winter 2000; Spring 2000; Summer 2000; Autumn 2000; Winter 2001; Spring 2001; Summer 2001; Autumn 2001; Winter 2002, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Autumn 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2003, Winter 2004, Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Autumn 2004:

PROSEMINAR (995); 1 q.h.; Ohio State University, Spring 1989, 1990, Winter 1990, 1991, 1992.

RESEARCH IN THEATRE: THESIS and DISSERTATION (998 and 999); 3-5 q.h.; Ohio State University, Summer 1989, 1993; Winter 1990, Autumn 1992, 1993, Winter 1994, Autumn 1994, Winter 1995, Spring 1995, Winter 1996, Autumn 1996, Autumn 1997, Winter 1998, Autumn 1998, Winter 1999, Spring 1999, Autumn 1999, Winter 2000, Spring 2000, Summer 2000, Autumn 2000, Winter 2001, Spring 2001, Summer 2001, Autumn 2001, Winter 2002, Spring 2002, Summer 2002, Autumn 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2003, Winter 2004, Spring 2004, Summer 2004, Autumn 2004.

 


 

IV. Principal Publications

 

1. BOOKS:

Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism. Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland Publishers, 2001, 197p index. The book has the following chapters: The Vital Signs of Hellenism in Missolonghi; The Iconography of Modern Hellenism in Nafplio; The New Woman at the Olympics in Athens; A Satanist Agenda for the Rebirth of Hellenism; Supermen and Weaklings before the Victory of Hellenism.

Book review: “It has three extremely interesting chapters (out of five) which look at the work of women dramatists: Evanthia Kairi, Kaliroi Siganou-Parren and Loula Anagnostaki. These are cemented together by less interesting but necessary chapters which focus, respectively, on Dimitris Hatziaslanis’s comedy Babel and (in addition to the tiresome plays by Kazantzakis and Sikelianos mentioned above) Palamas’s Trisevgeni. While focusing on these works, and when linking them into an overall argument about national identity, Constantinidis constructs a genuinely persuasive and provocative thesis, into which a well-researched account of socio-political realities and even more telling theoretical points are woven.” Christopher Robinson, Christ Church, Oxford, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 27 (2003), p. 291.

 

Theatre under Deconstruction?: A Question of Approach. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1993, 336p index. The book has the following chapters: Destructive Solecisms; Revealing Oppressive Reversals; Vocal Texts; Same Difference; A Darwinian Performance Theory; New Aesthetics for Old?; Under Plain Cover; The Original Dittos; The Repressive Liberators; Visual Presentation; Is There a Text in This Rehearsal?; Transactional Analysis; Role Research; A Pavlovian Performance Theory.

Book review: "This is a fascinating book, innovative in both its structure and its arguments" Michael Quinn, University of Washington, Seattle, Theatre Journal, 46 (1994) p. 145.

 

2. EDITORSHIP OF BOOKS:

Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English in Twenty-Two Academic Disciplines during the Twentieth Century. Lanham & London: Scarecrow Press, 2000, 687p indexes.               

Book review: "Other resources covering aspects of modern Greece include Julia E. Miller’s Modern Greek Folklore: An Annotated Bibliography (CH, Jun’86) but none provides the depth and breadth of subject areas of Constantinidis’s volume” (Maureen Brunsdale, Illinois State University, Normal, Choice: Reviews for Academic Libraries, 38/3 (2000):499 (Entry 38-1266).

 

               3. EDITORSHIP OF PERIODICALS:

               Text & Presentation 25 (2004), 222p.

               Text & Presentation 24 (2003), 212p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies 22/2 (2004), 105p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies 22/1 (2004). 112p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies 21/2 (2003), 150p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies 21/1 (2003), 151p.

Text & Presentation 23 (2002), 178p.

Text & Presentation 22 (2001), 208p.

Text & Presentation 21 (2000), 192p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 18/1 (2000), 198p.

Journal of Modern Greek Studies of  14/1 (1996), 176p.

Theatre Studies 34 (1989), 102p.

 

4. TRANSLATIONS OF PLAYS:

Parren-Siganou, Kaliroi. The New Woman: A Play in Four Acts. In Modern Women Playwrights of Europe, edited by Alan Barr, 50-81. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Kambanellis, Iakovos. A Tale without Title. Melbourne: Elikia Books Publications, 1989, 41p.

Shakespeare, William. Antony andCleopatra. Athens: Polymnia Publishers, 1978, 218p.

 

5. CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS: (Most Recent)

 Dinos Katsuridis’ What Did You Do in the War, Thanasis?” in 24 Frames: The Balkans. Edited  by Dina Iordanova. London: Wallflower Press, 2004.

AA Teacher of Theatre Criticism: Why Did Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets?@ In Perspectives on Teaching Theatre. Edited by Raynette Halvorsen Smith, Bruce McConachie, and Rhonda Blair, 27-42. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2001.

 

6. RESEARCH PUBLISHED IN PERIODICALS: (Most Recent)

 AThe Greek Studio System (1950-1970)@ Film Criticism XXVII/2 (Winter 2002-03):9-30.

 

 

7. INTERVIEWS:

 APlaywriting and Oral History: An Interview with Playwright Lavonne Mueller@ Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 9/1 (1994):145-155.

APlaywriting and the Masks of History: An Interview with Playwright Don Nigro@ Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 8/1 (1993):149-156.

 


 

V. Office Address

Department of Theatre

The Ohio State University

1107 Drake Performance and Event Center

1849 Cannon Drive

Columbus, Ohio 43210

U.S.A.

 

Office Telephone

(614) 292-5821 (secretary)

(614) 292-1261 (direct line)

 

Office Fax

         (614) 292-3222

 

Electronic Address

        [email protected]

 


 

VI. Home Address

          245 Amazon Place

               Columbus, Ohio 43214

               U.S.A.

 

Home Telephone

         (614) 262-6720


 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

         http://www.the.ohio-state.edu

               http://telr.osu.edu/theatre/jmgs

Last revised December 24, 2004

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