Antonis Glytzouris
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 the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas). He is the author of the following books [in Greek]: Stage Direction in Greece; The Rise and Consolidation of the Director in Modern Greek Theatre (2001, 22011); ‘Wishes of an Eagle, Wings of a Butterfly’: Nikos Kazantzakis' Early Dramas and the European Avant-Garde. A Contribution to the Study of Decadence in Modern Greek Theatre of the early 20th century (2009); ‘…for the intellectual elevation of the people’: The Αttempt to Εstablish a National Theatre at the Βeginning of the First Venizelist Government (2015); ‘In the venues of oblivion’: Theater and Cinema in the Refugee Settlements of Interwar Piraeus. A First Visit (2024); and Stories of the savages. Louis Soullier’s Hippodrome in Athens, 1861, 1863(2024). He is also co-editor (with Constantina Georgiadi) of the Third Pan-Hellenic Theatre Conference Proceedings titled Tradition and Modernization in Modern Greek Theatre. From the Beginning to Post World War II Era (2010) and (with Constantina Georgiadi and Maria Mavrogeni) of the conference proceedings titled The Early Reception of Realism and Naturalism in Modern Greek Theatre (2016). He has published essays in Greek and international journals (New Theatre Quarterly, Ibsen Studies, Theatre History Studies, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, The International Journal of the History of Sport, Italica, Journal of Modern Greek Studies) and contributed chapters to the edited volumes Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Routledge, 2011) and The Routledge Companion to Vsevolod Meyerhold (2022). His current research interest focuses on the reception of realism in modern Greek theatre.