Dr Marissia Fragkou is senior lecturer in Performing Arts and joined Canterbury Christ Church University in 2013. Prior to this appointment she was a teaching fellow in Drama at the University of Birmingham (2011-2013) where she extensively taught on the undergraduate programme. She has previously lectured in a number of HE institutions (Royal Holloway, Winchester, DMU, Kingston). She became a fellow of Advance HE in 2020.
Marissia graduated from the Department of English Language and Literature at the University of Athens in 2004 and gained an MA Research in Theatre Studies (2005), a PG Certificate for Teaching in HE (Distinction) and a Ph.D in Drama and Theatre (2010) from Royal Holloway, University of London. Her doctoral research focussed on the feminist nomadic politics in the plays of Phyllis Nagy in the context of 1990s British theatre. She has published and presented papers on contemporary British and European theatre and performance as well as performance and cultural politics, ethics of responsibility, and radical democratic politics.
Marissia has also collaborated with the London-based emerging theatre company cafila aeterna as resident spectator and co-deviser in developing What Happened to the Tyrant (Camden People's Theatre, 2010) and The World Rests on a Tortoise (‘100 years of Futurism’ event, Goldsmiths College 2009).
She has widely taught modules on British theatre; feminist theatre; cultural/critical theory; contemporary theatre practices/devising; applied theatre; directing; and actor-training.