Curriculum Vitae
SAVAS PATSALIDIS
Prof. Aristotle University
BA Aristotle University
MA McGill University
PhD. University of Montreal. Thesis title: Modern Metatheater: a Celebration of the Dualities and Conventions of Dramatic Form
Areas of research and teaching
1. Theory and history of world drama
2. Experimental/alterative theatre
3. Ethnic and minority theatre
4. Theatre of Race and Gender
5. Theatre in the Colonies
6. American Theatre and culture
7. European Theatre and Culture
8. Ideology, Theatre, Culture
9. High and Low Art
10. Tragedy and tTheories of the Tragic in 20th century
11. Greek Theatre and Culture
12. Greek Theatre and Cinema
13. Theatre, Dance, Music
14. Theatre in Education
15. Theatre ad Journalism
16. Theatre and Festivals
17. Theatre, Traslation, Culture
18. Visual Cultures and Theatre
19. Theatre, Technology and Culture
20. Theatre and Economics
21. The Reception of Ancient Greek Theatre
22. Race, Gender and Tragedy
23. Theatre East-West
24. Theatre Criticism
25. Anglophone Theatre Around the World
26. The Art of Theatre Reviewing
Teaching Positions
a: 1984-1987 Lecturer, Aristotle University. School of English
b: 1987-1992 Assistant Professor, Aristotle University, School of English
c: 1992- 1996 Associate Professor, Aristotle University, School of English
d: 1996- 2018 Professor, Aristotle University, School of English
Undergraduate Courses taught: School of English, Aristotle University
1. Theatre, Theory and Practice
2. American Prose
3. Experimental and Alternative Theatre
4. Theatre of Race and Gender
5. Contemporary American Theatre and Culture
6. 19th Century American Theatre and Cuture
7. Masters of American Theatre
8. Reviving the Classics
9. Contemporary European, African and American Theatre
10 Anglophone Theatre Around the World
11. Introduction to Theatre and Criticism
12. Research Paper
Undergraduate courses taught elsewhere:
A: 1998-99 and 2009-2018. Drama Academy of the National Theatre of Northern Greece
a. History and Theory of World Drama. Level 1
b. History and Theory of World Drama. Level 2
c. History and Theory of World Drama. Level 3
Total number of plays taught each year: 70. Each play accompanied by a 30-minute practical class presentation.
B: 2007-2018. Hellenic Open University. As professor and coordinator of the module unit ELP 44.
Course taught: Modern Greek Theatre and Cinema.
C. 1995-6, 1999-2000, University of Cyprus.
Six theatre courses covering world drama.
Graduate Courses taught
A. School of English (1995-2018)
1.Contemporary Trends in American Theatre
2.Ideology and Aesthetics of Postmodern Theatre
3.Theatre Theories
NOTE: The code numbers of courses and titles remain the same but the content changes every year. The reading list of each semester course involves an average of two plays per week (a total of 28).
B. Department of Theatte Studies, Graduate Programme, Aristotle University (2008-2018)
Trends in Contemporary American Theatre —Theatre of Race, Gender, Ethnicity and Technology
Positions held in the department:
1984-85. In charge of the Student’s Affairs Department
1986-88, 1994-2000, 2007-2011. Member of the Committee of the Ministry of Culture for the Accreditation of International University Degrees
1990-93. Chair of the Department of American Literature and Culture
1997-99. Vice President of the School of English. Aristotle University.
2000-2002, 2002-2004. President of the School of Englsih. Two terms.
2004-2007 Chair of Aristotle University’s Cultural Acivities
1999-2003. Editor of the Yearbook/Student Guide of the School of English.
1985-2000. Co-Founder and chair of Bald Theatre, the theatre group of the School of English
1998, 2000-2003, 2010-12. On the board of the University’s Research Committee representing the School of English
Supervisor of PhD projects
1: Smati Yemenetzi Malathouni. Anne Bradstreet: The Poet as Historian. School of English. Aristotle University. 1992.
2: Zoe Detsi Early American Women Dramatists. School of English. Aristotle University. 1996. Published by Garland . 1999.
3: Kostas Blatanis (1997). Postmodern Theatre. School of English. Aristotle University. 1997. Published by Farleigh Dickinson. 2003.
4. Imam Neamat. The Politics of Arthur Miller. School of English. Aristotle University. 2003.
5. Penelope Chatzidemitriou. The Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos. School of English. Aristotle University. 2005. Published by University Studio Press. 2010.
6: Theodora Mavropoulou. Shakespeare in Greece. School of English. Aristotle University. 2006.
7: Athanasia Baltima. Anglophone Children’s Theatre in Greece. School of English. Aristotle University. 2005.
8. Peny Fylaktaki. Trans-staging: Greek Theatre Translation in the Whirlwind of Politics and Culture. School of English. Aristotle University. 2008.
9. Vinia Dakari. Bodies of Pain/Bodies of Text: Configurations of Disease in Contemporary American Theatre . School of English. Aristotle University. 2016.
10. Konstantina Kalogerou. Vocabulary Acquisition Through Play and Drama. School of English. Aristotle University. 2018.
11. Katerina Delikonstantinidou. Ancient Greek Myths and Latin American Drama. School of English. Aristotle University. 2018.
12. Elena Deliou.Charles Mee’s Re-readings of the Classics. School of English. Aristotle University. 2018.
Member of PhD committees: second reader
1: Michael Kokonis. Metafictional Games: The Play Element in Cinema and the Novel. School of English, Aristotle University. 1991.
2. Adrienne Calfo. The Untidy House: 19th and 20th Century American Fiction. School of English. Aristotle University. 1995. Published by Merwin Press, USA, 2000.
3: Clio Kehagia. Clio in New England: Puritan Historiography in 17th Century New England. School of English. Aristotle University. 1996.
4. Eleni Godi. The Forces of Production and the Fortunes of Fiction: The Case of Barbara Pym. School of English. Aristotle University. 1998.
5. Nandia Evaggelinou. Women’s Plays in Contemporary Greek Theatre (1949-1999). School of Neohellenic Studies. Aristotle University. 2001.
6. Stella Platskou. Irish Theatre in Greece. Fifty Years of Stage Presence (1943-1992). School of Neohellenic Studies. Aristotle University. 2000.
7. Xeni Georgopoulou. «Who Isn’t Can Read a Woman.» The Fashioning of the Female in Shakespeare. School of English, Aristotle University. 2004.
8 Avra Sideropoulou. The Theatre of the Director-Auteur: Text, Form and Authorship. School of English, Aristotle University. 2009. Pubished by Palgrave. 2011.
9. Maria Basli. Silenced Voives: Female Identity in Henry James and Georgios Xenopouulos. School of English, Aristotle University. 2006.
10. Vangelis Syropoulos. The Ideology and Aesthetics of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musical: From the Broadway Musical to the British Megamusical. School of English, Aristote University. 2008.
11. Aneta Karagiannidou. Getting Away With it: The Erotic Thriller and its Fantasies. School of Englsih, Aristotle University. 2006.
12. Despina Kaklamanidou. Narration and Focus in Les Liaisons dangereuses of Choderlos de Laclos and its Four Cinematic Versions. School of Engish, Aristotle University. 2005.
13. Sophia Emmanoulidou. Identities of the Periphery: The Construction and the Collective Prodigy in Chicano/a Writings. School of English, Aristotle University. 2003.
14. Sophia Iordanidou, Pirandello in Greece. Department of Italian Studies. Aristotle University. 2003.
15. Charalambos Dermitzakis. Techniques, limits and dynamics in Narrative and Dramatic Discourse. Schoolof Pedagogy. University of Athens. 1996.
16. Maria Kartali. Political Cartoons in Greece in the 1840s. Pantio University. 2011.
17. Katerina Ziaka. In/Sanity on the Contemporary British Stage: The Politics and Limits of Representation. School of English, Aristotle University. 2012.
18. Mariana Lagakou. A Comparative Translatological Analysis of Three Modern Greek Translations of Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire and Their Reception in Greece. School of English, Aristotle University. 2012.
19. Maria Chamali. The Reception of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller in Greece. Departent of Theatre Studies. University of Athens. 2013.
20. Ellada Evaggelou. Greek Cypriot Plays and Contemporary Greek Cypriot Culture and Identity. School of Arts and Applied Sciences. Cyprus Technological University. Limassol. 2013.
21. Konstantina Sophiadou. European Conscience and Greek Identity: the Reception of Foreign Contemporay Productions of Ancient Greek Drama in Greece (1980-2010). Department of Pedagody. University of Athens. 2015.
22. Vasiliki Geli. Popular Greek Movies, 1950-1970: An Analysis of the Genre’s Evolution. School of English, Aristotle University. 2013.
23. Prokopios Orfanos. Artstic avant-gardes: Social and Political Dimensions. University of Athens. 2014.
Scholarships
1. McGill Scholarship (1976-7)
2. Fulbright (1985)
3. Fulbright (1987)
4. Rockefeller (1988)
5. Fulbright (1992)
6. European Scholaship (1992, 1994)
8. Canadian Studies Program (Greek Network of the Canadian Studies Award Grandees) 1998
9. Salzburg Seminar Scholarship (1988)
Member of Associations
1 Association of Greek Writers of Montreal
2. Hellenic Association of American Studies
3. European Association of American Studies
4. Hellenic Association of English Studies
5. European Association of English Studies
6. The German Society for Contemporarty Theatre and Drama in English, (CDE)
7. Seniotic Society
8. International Association of Theatre Critics, (IATC)
10. International Federation of Theatre Studies, (FIRT)
11. International Theatre Institute, (ITI)
12. Greek Theatre Institute
13.Modern Language Association
14.American Studies International
15.Salzburg Seminar in American Studies
15. Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics
Member of Editorial Boards
Editor-in-Chief of Critical Stages. The journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics.
Board Member of Λογείον/Logeion.The journal of Anient Greek Theatre. Theatre Department. University of Patras.
Board Member of the journal Utopia (Ουτοπία). Athens.
Board Member of the journal Revmata/Ρεύματα. Athens.
Board Member of the journal (de)kata/ (δε)κατα. Athens.
Board Member of the Journal of Greek Media and Culture. Liverpool John Moores University.
Board Member of the Journal GRAMMA. School of English. Aristotle University. Thessaloniki.
Board member of Thessaloniki’s Theatre and Dance Department
Editor of the series Theatre Texts of the University Studio Press.
Positions held outside the university
1997-1999, 2003-2005. President of the Hellenic Association of American Studies.
2006. Member of the selection committee of Onasis International theatre Prize
2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2017-19. Member of the committee of the Ministry of Culture for theatre’s State funding.
2006-2012. President of Athens System, ran by the Theatre Institute in Athens. A platform for the promotion of Greek Theatre.
2007-2008. Member of the committee for the annual theatre prizes of the Association of Theatre and Music Critics
2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Delegate of the Association of Theatre and Music Critics at IATC.
2006-2009. Chair of the committee for the annual prize for best theatre translation
2009-11. Board membr of the Associaton of Theatre and Music Critics
2010-12. Vice President of the Hellenic Theatre Institute
2016-2018. President (and founding member) of the Hellenic Association of Theatre and Performing Arts Critics.
2017-2018. Member of the committee of the First Meeting of Young Artists from South East Europe. National Theatre of Northern Greece.
Theatre Curator
2014-2018. DIMITRIA International Festival (sponsored by the Municipality of Thessaloniki).
2017, 2018. FOREST International Festival (sponsored by the National Theatre of Northern Greece)
Experience in Theatre Reviewing
1. Editor-in-Chief of the Greek Canadian Tribune (1976-1983).
3. Theatre Reviewer for the journal Letters and Arts (Γράμματα και Tέχνες, 1984-1987).
4. Theatre Reviewer for the journal Dromena (δρώμενα, 1984-1987).
5. Theatre Reviewer for the journal Porphyras (Πόρφυρας, 1984-1998).
6. Theatre Reviewer for the journal Trends/Revmata (Pεύματα, 1990-1998).
7. Theatre Reviewer for the journal Quinda (Kουΐντα, 1995-2000)
8. Theatre Reviewer for the newspaper Sunday Messanger/Aggelioforos (Aγγελιοφόρος της Κυριακής, 1998-2004 and 2010-2013).
9. Theatre reviewer for the journal (de)kata ((δε)κατα (2005-present)
10. Theatre reviewer for the journal Theatre Curtain/Avlea (Αυλαία, 2004-2011).
11. Theatre reviewer for the newspaper Sunday Free Press (Κυριακάτικη Ελευθεροτυπία, 2008 -2011)
12. Editor of the series Theatre Texts published by University Studio Press (2000-present).
13. In charge of the radio programme “Theatre Today”, Radio, The Observer (Ράδιο Παρατηρητής, 1994-97).
14. Theatre reviewer for the online journal only theatre (2015-16)
15. Theatre reviewer for the online journal parallaxi (2014-)
16. Theatre reviewer for the online journal greekplay project (2015-)
17. Theatre reviewer for the online journal lavart (2017-)
18. Editor-in-Chief of Critical Stages, the journal of the International Association of Theatre Critics (2014-)
Publications
Books
1.The “Other Theatre”: A Study of Feminist and Afroamerican Theatre. Athens: Tolidis bros, 1994.
2. ed. Hellenism and the U.S.: Constructions and Deconstructions. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 1994.
3. ----------- & E. Sakellaridou, eds. "Theatre/Power/Culture.” Gramma 2 (1994).
4. Metatheatrics. 1985-1995. Thessaloniki: Paratiritis, 1995.
5: Trends and Ruptures: Greek Tragedy and the Theory of 20th Century. Gutenberg: Aθήνα, 1997.
6: ---------- & Ε. Sakellaridou, eds. (Dis)Placing Classical Greek Theatre. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 1999.
7: Theory and Theatre. About Sub-jects and Inter-texts.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2000 (five editions).
8: ---------- & Georgia Theodosiadou, eds. Histories and Myth-stories Made in USA. Thessaloniki: Hellenic Association of American Studies, 2000.
9: Laughing Wild (by Christopher Durang). Introduction, editing, proofreading of the translation.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2001.
10: Blasted (by Sarah Kane). Introduction, editing, proofreading of the translation.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002.
11: ----------- & Anastasia Nikolopoulou, eds. Melodrama: Generic and Ideological Transformations. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2002.
12: ----------- & E. Sakellaridou, eds. “Theatre(s) in the Age of New Technologies.” Gramma 10 (2003).
13: From Representation o Presentation: a Study of Limits and Possibilities. Athnes: Ellinika Grammata, , 2004.
14. A Devil Inside (by David Lindsay-Abaire). Introduction and editing.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2004.
15. Two War Plays. Editor.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2006.
16. Theatre in Thessaloniki.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2006.
17. Theatre, Society, Nation: From “America” to the United States. Volume 1. 1620-1960. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press,2010.
18. Theatre, Society, Nation: From “America” to the United States. Volume 2, 1960-2009.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2010.
19. ---------- & E.Sakellaridou, eds. "Τhe Text Strikes Back: The Dynamics of Performativity.” Gramma (2009).
20. Theatre and Globalization: Searching for a Lost Reality. Athens: Papazisis, 2012.
21. ed., “Theatre in Recession.” Critical Stages #8 (Summer 2013).
22. Theatre Interventions.Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2013.
23. ---------- & Theodoros Grammatas, eds. "Struggling with the Classics: About Locality and Globality." Gramma 22 (1) 2014.
24. ---------- & Anna Stavrakopoulou, eds. “The Geographies of Contemporary Greek Theatre: About Uropias, Heterotopias and Dystopias. Gramma (2014)
Β: Articles
1. “Theatrical Landscape.” Aegean Review 6 (1989): 3-5.
2. “The Player vis-a-vis the Play’s Design: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” English Studies Yearbook, Aristotle University (1989): 402-20.
3. “Deconstructing the Canon: Limits and Possibilities in Rosencrantz and Guildenstein Are Dead.” North Dakota Quarterly (1989): 224-35.
4. “The Multi-Referentiality of the Theatrical Sign and the Poetics of Self-Reflective Drama.” Working Papers in Linguistics and Literature. Thessaloniki: Aristotle University, 1989: 197-206.
5. “Discipline and Punish: The Case of Baraka’s Dutchman.” North Dakota Quarterly (1989): 224-35.
6. “The Avant-Garde Theatre in Postmodern America.” Developments in Genre in English and American Literature in the Second Half of the 20th Century. Heft 6 Rostock: Universitat Rostock, 1989: 62-64.
7. “America Across the Atlantic: The Greek Paradigm.” A Helluva Country. Ed. Svend Erik Larsen. Odense: Odense UP, 1990: 38-40.
8. “(Mis)understanding America’s Literary Canon: The Greek Paradigm.” As Others Read Us: Inter-National Perspectives on American Literature. Ed. Huck Gutman. Ahmerst: U of Massachusset P., 1990.
9. “The Revival of Ancient Drama and the Rage of Greek Critics.” Text and Performance, vol. XI. Ed. Karelisa Hartigan. New York: Maupin House, 1991: 75-81.
10. “Power Games in Shepard’s Prison-House: A Lie of the Mind.” Q/W/E/R/T/Y 2 (1992): 245-52.
11. "The Idea of Mediation in Handke’s Kaspar.” Gramma 2 (1994): 127-40.
12. "Contemporary Greek Women Dramatists: The Road to Emancipation.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies (Spring 1996): 85-102.
13. “Adrienne Kennedy's Heterotopias and the (Im)possibilities of the Black (Female) Self.” Staging Difference: Cultural Pluralism in American Theatre and Drama. Ed. Marc Maufort. New York: Peter Lang, 1995.
14: "From Historical Realism to Ahistorical Postmodernism: The Desemiotization of Contemporary Greek Theatre." European Journal for Semiotic Studies 8.4 (1996): 667-88.
15. “Charles Mee’s Intertextual and Intercultural Inscriptions. Suppliant Women vs Big Love.” Codifying the National Self. Spectators, Actors and the American Dramatic Text. Εd. Βarbara Ozieblo. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2006.
16. “Lang-scapes of Death, Inscapes of Memory and Philoktetes’ Postmodern Painscript.” The Future of Flesh: A Cultural Survey of the Body. Eds. Zoe Detsi, Katerina Kitsi, Effie Yiannopoulou. London: MacMillan, 2009. 61-77.
17. “Looking for a Postmodern Audience». Critical Stages. 1 (2010). www.aict.com
18. «War Over the Persians.» Critical Stages 1 (2010). www.aict.com
19. “Re-membered Pain in John Jesurun’s Philoktetes.” Theatre and Theatre Studies in the 21st Century. Eds. Anna Tabaki & Walter Puchner. Athens: Ergo, 2010. 341-56.
20. “Τhree Interiors.” Apiliotis. (September 2010).
21. “In the Prison House of Myth and Culture: Revisiting The Atrides.” Critical Stages 3 (2010). www.aict com
22. “National Critics and the Posmodern World: Bridging the Gap.” About the Phenomenon of Theatre. Ed. Nasrollah Ghaderi. Tehran: ITI, 2011. 139-45.
22. “Looking for a Postmodern Audience.” Yale/Theatre 41. 1 (2011): 86-92
23. (Ne)kriticne premestitve.” Dialogi 5-6 (2011): 46-53.
24. «Exile and Political Asylum in the Ancient World: The Suppliants.» Critical Stages 5 (2011).
25. «(Un)Critical (Re)Positionings.» Critical Stages 5 (2011).
26. “The Kaleidoscope of Contemporary Greek Drama.“ Contemporary Greek Theatre, New Visions. Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Athens, 2012.
27. «Modern Greek Theatre: a Quest for Hellenism.» Theatre Survey 44.2 (2003): 286-89.
28. “Re-visiting the Community: The Politics of Theatre Beyond the Theatre.” Critical Stages #7 (2012).
29. “Laying Bridges in the Gulf.” Critical Stages # 7 (2012).
30. “Greek Theatre and the Depression.” Critical Stages # 8 (2013).
31. “The Geography of Contemporary Greek Theatre.” ITI 12th Edition of the World of Theatre. 2013.
32. «Audience Participation and the Theatre’s Role in the Age of Post-Postmodernity.” Critical Satges # 9 (2013).
33 “Oltre il moderno. Teatro Greco di fine XX – inizi XXI secolo.” Culture Teatrali 23 (2014): 100-107.
34. “The Glo-c-ality of the Greek Classics.” In: Struggling with the Classics: About Locality and Glocality. Gramma 22 (1) 2014. 5-13.
35. “From the Years of Utopia to the Years of Dystopia.” Gramma 2 (2014): 7-16.
36. «Inter-connecting Artistic Landscapes.” Critical Stages 13 (2016). www.critical-stages.org/13/
37. “From the Uncritical Certainties of Modernism to the Critical Uncertainties of Postmodernism: Reviewing Theatre in Greece.” In: Theatre Criticism: Changing Landscapes. Ed. Duska Radosavlijevic. London: Methuen, 2016.
38. “The Suppliants of our Post-Tragic Times.” Passages de Paris 12 (2016) 180-188.
39. “Greek Theatre in the Age of Depression.” Translated in Farsi. Namayesh. The Theatre Specalized Magazin 18 (November 2016).
NOTE: In this brief biographical note I have not included the articles published in Greek Journals (a total of 160) and also the reviews (a total of about 1000). For a complete list of my publications until 2003 see Paschalis Gioulekas and Artemis Moustaklidou’s research project Savas Patsalidis’s Bibliography, Thessaloniki, 2003, pp.294. They located 756. Fifteen years later (2018) the amount should be about 1200 (including all academic and non academic publications).
