MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

Dr. Anna Stavrakopoulou

Lecturer

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Department of Drama

 

I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1994 Harvard University

M.A. 1992 Harvard University

D.E.A. 1986 Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle

B.A. 1985 University of Crete

 

II. Areas of Specialization

Modern Greek Theatre

European Theatre

Oral Tradition

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

History of Modern Greek Theatre (16th-19th centuries)

Survey of Modern Greek Theatre 1821-1922 (Graduate)

Solomos - Poems and Prose Writings (Graduate)

Advanced Modern Greek I (Theotokas, Politis, Anagnostakis)

Advanced Modern Greek II (Iordanidou, Delta, Fakinou)

 

IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

Books

-Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays; co-editor with Gregory Nagy (Routledge: New York, 2003).

 

Articles

-“Mise Kozis: Multi-ethnic Night Strolls in Ottoman Constantinople”, forthcoming in festschrift for Professor Dimitris Spathis (fall 2005). [article in Greek]

 

-"Marriage: Recomposing a Ritual in Shadow Theater Performances" in D. Yatromanolakis and P. Roilos (eds.), Greek Ritual Poetics, Cambridge Mass., (2005).

 

- “Moliere and Karaghiozis: The Doctor in Spite of Himself and its luck in the Greek Shadow Theatre” in Acta of 2nd Panhellenic Theater Conference: the influences of European Theater in the Neohellenic Theater, ed. Konstantza Georgakaki. Ergo, 2004, 281-289. [article in Greek]

 

-"'Returning from Greece:' Journey and Homecoming in two contemporary Greek novels" in Modern Greek Literature: Critical Essays (Routledge, 2003).

 

-Tradition and Innovation: the puppeteer Dinos Theodoropoulos in Patras of the 1930s in Acta of 1st Panhellenic Theater Conference: Greek Theater from 17th to 20th century, ed. Iossif Vivilakis.  Ergo, 2002, 263-274. [article in Greek]

 

-"The contribution of the Whitman/Rinvolucri collection to the study of Greek Shadow Theater" [article in Greek] in Kathimerini, 1/3/1999.

 

-"Paul Auster: Idealizing Solitude" [article in Greek]. In Reumata 18, 62-67 (March-April 1994).

 

-"Karaghiozis: Interviewing the Artists", in Laografia, vol. 10, issue 3, 7-12 (May-June 1993).

 

Translations

 

-Greek Shadow Theatre: Light and History, Hellenic Historical and Research Archive (E.L.I.A.); exhibition catalogue (176p. texts+illustation captions), February 2004 (from Greek into English).

 

-Margaret Alexiou, "Not with words alone: ritual approaches to Greek literature," Themata Logotechnias, 23, May-August 2003, 101-133 (from English into Greek).

 

V. Office Address

Department of Drama

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Egnatia 122 – GR 546 22

Thessaloniki

GREECE

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

+30 2310 99 21 51

+30 2310 99 21 26 (F)

 

Electronic Address

[email protected]

VI. Home Address

Aristotelous 33

GR 546 31 – Thessaloniki

GREECE

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

+30 2310 226 858

 

VII. Comments and Additional Information

(no information submitted)

Last revised October 23, 2005

 

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