Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies – History and Theory of World Theatre
Marissia Fragkou holds a BA in English and Greek Language and Literature from the University of Athens and a MA Research and Ph.D in Theatre Studies from Royal Holloway, University of London (2010). She has taught drama and theatre in several UK Higher Education institutions such as the University of Birmingham, De Montfort University, Royal Holloway (University of London), Kingston University and the University of Winchester. During 2013-2022 she was senior lecturer in Performing Arts at Canterbury Christ Church University where she also served as the course director of the BA Drama.
Her research focuses on contemporary European and Global theatres with particular emphasis on identity politics and social engagement. Her essays have been published in peer-reviewed journals (Modern Drama, Didaskalia, Contemporary Theatre Review, Performing Ethos) and volumes on theatre such as Beautiful Doom: Dennis Kelly’s Work on Stage and Television (Manchester University Press, in press), Affects in 21st-Century British Theatre: Exploring Feeling on Page and Stage (Palgrave, 2021), Contemporary European Playwrights (Routledge, 2020), Performances of Capitalism, Crises and Resistance: Inside/Outside Europe (Palgrave, 2015), Contemporary British Theatre: Breaking New Ground (Palgrave, 2013). She is the author of Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty-First Century Theatre: Politics, Affect, Responsibility (Bloomsbury, 2018).
She has co-edited two special issues for the journals Skene (2020) and the Journal of Greek Media and Culture (2017) and is currently co-editing The Methuen Drama Handbook of Women in Contemporary British Theatre which will be published by Bloomsbury. She has received invitations from the University of Oxford, Leuven (Belgium), Goldsmiths (UK), Patras (Greece), East London to present her research and has also delivered papers in several conferences in the UK, Europe and the US. She is a member of IFTR (Feminist Research working group), TaPRA (Performance, Identity and Community working group) and the European Theatre Research network.
Taught modules:
Precarity in contemporary theatre
Special topics in world theatre: post-war and contemporary British theatre
Comparative drama and performance: contemporary representations and performances of gender
Theories of theatre
email: mfragkou@thea.auth.gr
Office: Exadaktilou, 5th Floor Phone number: 2310992151
