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Dr Marissia Fragkou

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.

Her teaching responsibilities include: Post-dramatic Devising; Theatre in Society; Directing and Dramaturgy; Practice as Research; Dissertation; Arts in Context; Applied Theatre; Practising Applied Performance.

Supervision

Marissia welcomes informal enquiries from applicants who are interested in contemporary British and European theatre and performance; Greek theatre; theatre and cultural politics; feminist theatre.

Research Projects

  • ‘Your transness, your otherness is your superpower’, Transgender identities, Power and Representation in the UK Theatre industry.. Researcher(s): MX Natalie Murphy. Supervisor(s): Dr Marissia Fragkou, Dr Andy Birtwistle. [Postgraduate Research Project]
  • Staging the Confines of Madness: Exploring Mental Health and Gendered Confinement in Twentieth- century Ireland through Performance Practice.. Researcher(s): Miss Stella Godmet. Supervisor(s): Dr Kasia Lech, Dr Marissia Fragkou, Professor Robert Rawson. [Postgraduate Research Project]

Memberships

In the past, she was member of CDE (Contemporary Drama in English) and was one of the founding editors of Platform postgraduate e-journal and served as member of its editorial board until 2009.