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Department of Theatre Studies

SECHOPOULOU MARIA

Photograph of Maria Sechopoulou

MARIA SECHOPOULOU

Assistant Professor on fixed-term appointment

Theatre Studies – European Dramaturgy of the Modern Era

Phone: 210-7277384
Office: 818, 8th floor, School of Philosophy
Office hours: Every Tuesday, 18:00–19:00 (by prior arrangement via email).

She studied Theatre Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she completed with distinction the two-year postgraduate programme and wrote her doctoral dissertation, receiving the grade of ممتاز with distinction. For her doctoral research, she was awarded a scholarship from the Sasakawa Foundation, while for her postgraduate studies she received a merit scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). She has taught world theatre history and dramaturgy at undergraduate and postgraduate level at NKUA, the University of the Peloponnese, the Inter-Institutional Postgraduate Programme in Theatre and Film Studies of the University of Crete and IMS/FORTH, as well as in the postgraduate programme “Performing Arts” of the Hellenic Open University. She has participated as a postdoctoral researcher and scientific associate in research projects related to theatre history, the periodical press, and the terminology of the performing arts.

She has presented papers at Greek and international academic conferences and has published articles in conference proceedings and collective volumes. She has also edited conference proceedings, contributed to the organisation of academic conferences, and undertaken scholarly and philological editing.

At the same time, she has written introductions and afterwords for literary and theatrical editions, as well as theatre studies texts and chronologies for theatre programmes.

DramaturgyTheatre HistoryTheatre Theory
Research Interests
  • Analysis of dramaturgical texts and the study of the theoretical thought of their creators
  • The evolution of dramaturgical form from realism to postdramatic theatre
  • Intertextual dialogues between European drama, history, and social reality
  • Issues of reception, translation, stage realisation, and critical evaluation
Participation in Programmes
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Publications (selected)
  1. Maria Sechopoulou, Strindberg in Greece. A Century of Reception. Foreword by Margarita Melberg, Kapa Publishing, Athens 2025, p. 837 [ISBN: 978-960-628-431-1]
  2. Konstantina Georgiadi, Maria Sechopoulou, Vania Papanikolaou, 20th-Century European Dramaturgy. From Luigi Pirandello to Sarah Kane, Kallipos, Open Academic Editions, Athens 2023, p. 380. [ISBN: 978-618-228-048-5] Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/11419/9976 DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.57713/kallipos-282
  3. Maria Sechopoulou (ed.), August Strindberg and Contemporary Theatre, Proceedings of the International Study Day co-organised by the Department of Theatre Studies, NKUA, the Embassy of Sweden in Greece, the Swedish Institute at Athens, and the Greek Embassy in Sweden (Athens, 20 October 2017), introductory note by Anna Tabaki – Maria Sechopoulou, Kapa Publishing, Athens 2020, p. 144. [ISBN: 978-960-628-095-5]
  4. Maria Hamali & Maria Sehopoulou, “Two Stages, One Vision: Stefan Larsson’s Adaptation of Ibsen’s Little Eyolf in Sweden and Cyprus”, Critical Stages/Scenes Critiques (The IATC Journal/Revue de l’AICT), No. 31 (June 2025), Essays. [e-ISSN: 2409-7411 / https://www.critical-stages.org/31/two-stages-one-vision-stefan-larssons-adaptation-of-ibsens-little-eyolf-in-sweden-and-cyprus/].
  5. Maria Sehopoulou, “Strindberg i Grekland”, Strindbergiana (Stockholm), Trettionsju samlingen utgiven av Strindbergssällskapet / vol. 37 (2022), Cecilia Carlander (ed.), pp. 35–53. [https://auguststrindberg.se/strindbergiana-2015/]
Translations / Editorial Work
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Current Topics
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Conferences / Talks
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Undergraduate Courses
  • Issues in World Theatre
Postgraduate Studies
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