Stratos Constantinidis
Professor

Areas of Expertise
• Critical Theory
• Historiography
• Playwriting
• Script Analysis
• Classical Drama
• Modernist Performance
• Research Methods

Stratos E. Constantinidis, editor of Text & Presentation (www.mcfarlandpub.com), is primarily interested in the media of theatre, radio, cinema, and television. He has authored, edited, or translated over 25 volumes of work, including landmark books like Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism (2001) and Theatre Under Deconstruction (1993). He is currently writing The Book of Playwriting, as well as a 4-volume book on Greek Cinema.

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, including The Cinema of the Balkans (London, 2006), Perspectives on Teaching Theatre (New York, 2001), and The Riddles of the Sphinx (Athens, 1996).

Formerly the director of The Comparative Drama Conference (lmu.edu/compdrama/) and editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (www.press.jhu.edu/journals/mgs), he has organized many interdisciplinary national and international conferences, and colloquia. He has also given numerous talks as a panelist or as a guest speaker at conferences in America, Canada, Europe, and the Near East. His most recent talk was given at the Barker Humanities Center at Harvard University.

Since 1980 he has designed and taught over 40 different graduate and undergraduate courses in three American universities. He was a semi-finalist for an Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching at The Ohio State University in 2007. He is credited for having taught the first course on Modern Greek drama in the United States. He has been involved in over 44 M.A. theses, M.F.A. theses, and Ph.D. dissertations. The titles of some of the doctoral dissertations that he directed are: The Color of Hollywood by Monica White Ndounou (Tufts University, 2007); The Performance of Black Masculinity by John Harris (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2003); Secular Messianism and Nationalist Idea in the Plays of Adam  Mickiewicz and William Butler Yeats by Eileen Krajewski (2002); Variations of Virtual Reality in Theatre and Film by Kaizaad Kotwal (Ohio State University at Marion, 2000); Ambiguity and Deception in the Covert Texts of South African Theatre by Allan Munro (University of Pretoria, 1997); Playing God in Live Theatre by Kathleen Colligan Cleary (Sinclair Community College, 1994); The Rise of Directorial Influence in Broadway Shakespearean Production by Steven Marc Weiss (Coe College, 1994); and Transformations of Terror by Brian Rose (Adelphi University, 1993).

Founder of the annual Exchange Colloquium (renamed Midwest Theatre Colloquium in 1995) for graduate students from five universities, and of the international Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award, he has served on a total of 20 committees at the levels of the department, the college, and the university, including 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, and the Faculty Senate of the Arts and Sciences. He has provided leadership on an additional 4 committees and executive boards of professional associations outside the university, including the Modern Greek Studies Association of America and Canada. He has also served as a consultant for the Ministry of Education of Greece and the Ohio Department of Education.

Education
• A.A. Haratsaris Theatre School 1972
• B.A. University of Thessaloniki 1974
• M.A. University of Iowa 1980
• Ph.D. University of Iowa 1984