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Kiki Gounaridou
Associate Professor
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Kiki Gounaridou received her Ph.D. in theatre history, theory, dramatic literature, and criticism in 1992 from the University of California at Davis. She taught theatre and performance studies at the University of Pittsburgh in the Ph.D. program in theatre.
Gounaridou has published and presented, in national and international conferences, numerous papers on Ancient Greek theatre, French theatre, theatre translation, theatre theory and contemporary theatre, among others. Her translation of Euripides's Hecuba was published in 1995. She is also the author of Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture (University Press of America, 1998), Madame La Mort And Other Plays By Rachilde (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998) and Staging Nationalism: Essays on Theatre and National Identity (Mcfarland Publishers, 2005).
Gounaridou is a member of the Board of the Comparative Drama Conference and Editor of the book series Text and Presentation. She has also been active as a theatre director, both in Europe and the United States, for over 25 years.
Gounaridou is the director of Smith College's Junior Year Abroad program in Geneva, Switzerland, for 2008–09 and 2009–10.
