Department of Performing and Digital Arts

Stella Platskou



Rank
Special Research Personnel

Stella Platskou has studied Greek and English Language and Literature at the Department of English Studies, School of Philosophy, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (B.A), and holds a Master of Arts in Literature – Drama from the School of Comparative Studies of the University of Essex in U.K. She has attended a Postgraduate Seminar in Theatre Studies at the Department of Philology, School of Philosophy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and was awarded a PhD in Theatre Studies from the above school in 2001. She holds a Diploma in Counselling and Guidance from ASPAITE (School of Pedagogy and Technology Education) and a Diploma in Teaching Greek as a Second or Foreign Language from the Centre for the Greek Language . As a teacher of English she has worked in both the private and public sectors of primary and secondary education as well as adult education. As an Education Counsellor and Teacher Trainer (2012-2018) she cooperated with the Research Centre for English Language of the University of Athens (RCEL) as well as the Institute of Educational Policy (IEP). She has also worked as a Theatre teacher in Tertiary Education, at an Actors' School and at the Department of Pre-primary Education of the Athens TEI (Higher Technological Institute, 2006-2012). She became a member of the Department of Performance and Digital Arts stuff in October 2021. Her research interests include 20th c. European Theatre as well as Applied Theatre and Expressive Arts Therapy.

Field
Irish Theatre, Social Applications of Performance and English Language Teaching
Studies
2017, Specialisation Program (Teaching Certification) Routes in teaching Modern Greek as a Second / Foreign Language, Centre for the Greek Language, Thessaloniki
2010, Diploma Counselling and Guidance, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE), GR
2001, PhD History of Theatre – Performance Analysis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
1992, Postgraduate seminar Theatre Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, GR
1987, MA Literature – Drama, University of Essex, UK (University of Athens scholarship 1985-87)
1984, BA Greek and English Language and Literature, Department of English Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, GR

Keywords: 20 th c. European Theatre, Irish Theatre, Modern Greek Theatre, Applied Theatre, Expressive Arts for personal and community growth and Transformation
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