Professor of Theatre Studies – History of Modern Greek and European Theatre
Antonis Glytzouris is Professor of Theatre History at the Theatre Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Previously, he worked at the University of Crete and at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Foundation for Research and Technology – Greece).
He is the author of the following books (all in Greek): Stage Direction in Modern Greece (2001); The Early Dramas of Nikos Kazantzakis and the European Avant-Garde (2009); The Attempt to Establish a National Theater at the Beginning of the First Venizelist Government (2015); Theatre and Cinema in the Interwar Refugee Quarters of Piraeus (2023); A French Circus in Nineteenth-Century Greece (forthcoming).
He has also published chapters in Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Routledge, 2011) and The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold (Routledge, 2022), as well as essays in New Theatre Quarterly, Ibsen Studies, Theatre Histories Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, Italica, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, and others.
Finally, his current research interests focus on the reception of realism in modern Greek theater.
Office: Exadaktilou Building, 5th floor Phone: 2310 992150
Εmail: glytzour@thea.auth.gr
Contact hours: Monday 11:30 – 13:30 (please, make an appointment by email)
