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Stratos Constantinidis
Professor, Department of Theatre
Areas of Expertise
• Theory
• History, Literature, Criticism
Stratos E. Constantinidis is director of the Comparative Drama Conference,
and a full-time tenured faculty member in the Department of Theatre at
the Ohio State University where he teaches primarily theory, criticism,
literature, historiography, and research methods. His book, Theatre Under
Deconstruction (New York & London: Garland Publishing, 1993), was
described as “a fascinating book, innovative in both its structure
and its arguments” (Theatre Journal 1994:145). He is also a specialist
on Modern Greek drama, film, and literature. His most recent book is Modern
Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism (Jefferson, NC & London: McFarland,
2001). He is currently writing a book on Greek Cinema. He has received
an Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Research Fellowship
to complete it.
He is the new editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies, the official
journal of the Modern Greek Studies Association of America and Canada
published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, and the editor of Text
& Presentation, the journal of the Comparative Drama Conference for
which he edited volumes 21 (2000), 22 (2001), and 23 (2002). He has also
been the editor of four volumes--Classical Drama in Modern Performances
(Theatre Studies, 1989), Modern Greek Drama (Journal of Modern Greek Studies
1996), Greek Film (Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 2000), and Greece
in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of Works Published in English
in 22 Academic Disciplines (Lanham & London: Scarecrow Press, 2000).
His 687-page annotated bibliography was described as "a monumental
task, but one that has been done with clarity. The results are impressive"
(Choice 2001:45).
He has translated William Shakespeare’s Anthony and Cleopatra into
Greek (Athens: Polymnia Publishers, 1971), Iakovos Kambanellis’s
A Tale without Title into English (Melbourne: Elikia Books, 1989; produced
by the Greek Theatre of New York on Off-Off Broadway in 1981); and Kalliroi
Siganou-Parren’s The New Woman into English in Modern Women Playwrights
of Europe (New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001; produced
by the Valley Ridge Theatre Company at the Heritage Theatre Festival in
Thomas, West Virginia in 2002). He is currently translating Aeschylus’
Prometheus Bound. He likes to direct one-act plays when he can find the
time and funds. He has directed Thornton Wilder’s Mozart and the
Grey Steward; Tennessee William’s At Liberty; LeRoi Jones’
Great Goodness of Life; George Bernard Shaw’s Augustus Does His
Bit; Harold Pinter’s Night; Samuel Beckett’s Play; Amiri Baraka’s
Dutchman; and Terrence Rattigan’s three-act comedy, French without
Tears.
His research papers have been published in various American, English,
German, Greek, and Israeli refereed journals, including Comparative Drama,
Code/Codikas: Ars Semeiotica, New Theatre Quarterly, Journal of Dramatic
Theory and Criticism, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Journal of Modern
Greek Studies, Poetics Today, Text & Presentation, World Literature
Today, and Film Criticism. Several of his research papers have been published
in edited books, such as “The Riddle of Lycanthropy: The Rein of
Tyranny or the Tyranny of Royalty in Oedipus Tyrannus and King Lear”
in The Riddles of the Sphinx (Athens: Tolidis, 1996, 99-128) and “A
Teacher of Theatre Criticism: Why Did Kamikaze Pilots Wear Helmets?”
in Perspectives on Teaching Theatre (New York: Peter Lang Publishing,
2001, 27-42). He has presented 37 research papers at conferences in the
United States and overseas, and another ten as invited speaker in American
and European academic institutions. He has also organized several interdisciplinary
national and international conferences, and colloquia.
Stratos Constantinidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. As soon as he
graduated from Anatolia College, he visited the United States in 1968
and decided to return in 1978 after he had earned an A.A. degree in Acting/Directing
at the Haratsaris Theatre School, a B.A. degree in English at the University
of Thessaloniki, and had completed 27 months of service in the Greek army.
He earned an M.A. degree in Speech and Dramatic Art at the University
of Iowa in 1980 and a Ph.D. in the Department of Communication and Theatre
Arts at the University of Iowa in 1984. Since 1980, he has designed and
taught over 34 different graduate and undergraduate courses in three American
universities —including courses in modern Greek language and literature.
He has been acknowledged for having taught the first course on modern
Greek drama in the United States. He has been involved in thirty three
M.A., M.F.A., and Ph.D. theses. He directed sixteen of them on topics
ranging from post-colonialism to virtual reality. Portions of the dissertations
that he supervised were published as articles. One of them was published
in its entirety as a book, Brian Rose’s Jekyll and Hyde Adapted:
Dramatizations of Cultural Anxiety (Westport & London: Greenwood Press,
1996).
He is the founder of the Exchange Colloquium (renamed Midwest Theatre
Colloquium in 1995), an annual colloquium for graduate students from five
universities. He has served on a total of twenty committees as well as
an additional four committees and boards outside the university. He also
served as a consultant for the government (Department of Education of
Greece) and for businesses (theatre companies in Europe). At the Ohio
State University, he has served on the Department of Theatre Executive
Committee, the History-Literature-Criticism Committee, the Graduate Studies
Committee, the Undergraduate Studies Committee, the College of the Arts
Faculty Concerns Committee, the College of the Arts Research and Faculty
Development Committee, the West European Studies FLAS Fellowships Committee,
the Interdisciplinary Faculty Travel Awards Committee, the West European
Studies Program Advisory Committee, the Presidential Fellowship Committee,
the Fulbright Interview Committee, the International Coordinating Committee,
the Council of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and the Faculty Senate
of the Arts and Sciences. He also served as Graduate School Representative
on many doctoral qualifying exams and dissertation defenses. He also served
as Director of Graduate Studies for the Department of Theatre and Chair
of the M.A./Ph.D. Program in Theatre. As chairperson of the Faculty Concerns
Committee of the College of the Arts, he became involved in college governance
issues, and was elected alternate representative of the faculty of the
College of the Arts on the University Senate. He was also elected to the
Executive Board of the Modern Greek Studies Association of America and
Canada, the Graduate Studies Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association,
and the E. C. Memorial Translation Prize Committee of the Modern Greek
Studies Association which he chaired. He was elected editor of the Journal
of Modern Greek Studies in 2002. He has served on the Executive Board
of the Comparative Drama conference and the Editorial Board of Text &
Presentation. He was elected Director of the Comparative Drama Conference
in 1998 and Editor of Text & Presentation in 1999. Text & Presentation
is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship.
It welcomes articles from the conference participants presenting original
investigation on, and critical analysis of, research and developments
in the field of drama and theatre. It publishes papers that are comparative
across disciplines, periods or nationalities, and deal with any issue
in dramatic theory and criticism, or any method of historiography, translation,
or production. The Comparative Drama Conference is an international, interdisciplinary
three-day event. The 26th Comparative Drama Conference (2001) had 63 sessions
featuring 236 program participants.
Education
• PhD, Communication & Theatre Arts, University of Iowa
• MA, Speech and Dramatic Art, University of Iowa
• BA, English Literature, University of Thessaloniki
• AA, Actor/Director Program, Haratsaris Theatre School
• HSD, Anatolia College
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