Eleftheria Ioannidou

Eleftheria Ioannidou is an Assistant Professor of Theatre/Performance at the University of Groningen. Her research interests lie in the 20th-century adaptation and performance of Greek tragedy. She holds an MA in Theatre Research from Royal Holloway, University of London and a PhD in classics from the University of Oxford. After completing her doctorate, she was a Humboldt Fellow at the Freie Universität, Berlin. She has authored the monograph Greek Fragments in Postmodern Frames: Rewriting Tragedy, 1970–2005 (OUP, 2017) as well as several articles on the relationship between ancient Greek theatre with nationalism and fascism. She is currently co-editing a special issue on performances of antiquity under fascist regimes for Fascism: Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies and a special issue on the revival of Greek theatre in Fascist Italy for Classical Receptions Journal. She is currently a research fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) working on the project »Performing Classical Visions: Uses of Antiquity in Fascism and Neofascism«.