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Mara Theodoritsi

Instructor

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Email: mtheodoritsi@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1082
Mailing Address: 
Department of Languages, Literatures, & Cultures
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6135 University Ave., Rm. 3106
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2

 
Research Topics:
  • Twentieth-century Italian literature
  • Translation and interpreting
  • Second language pedagogy
  • Spanish Golden Age literature
  • Puppet theatre

Education:
鈥� BA National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
鈥� MA University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
鈥� MA University of Texas at Brownsville (USA)
鈥� PhD University of Ottawa

Biography:

Dr. Theodoritsi joined the DLLC in 2026. She completed her undergraduate degree in Italian and Spanish Philology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Before embarking on her graduate studies, she worked as a staff translator at the Hellenic Ministry of Defence and as a freelance literary translator. She also completed a translation traineeship at the European Commission鈥檚 headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and worked at the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante, Spain. After receiving two Master鈥檚 degrees in Italy and the US, she earned her PhD from the University of Ottawa with a thesis on the use of metatheatrical techniques in the works of Miguel de Cervantes and Luigi Pirandello from the lens of ancient Greek theatre. Dr. Theodoritsi has taught a wide range of undergraduate courses in Spanish and Italian language and literature in Canada and the US. She also taught Modern Greek in the International and Indigenous Languages Program of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. She is a board member of the Pirandello Society of America and reviews editor of the Society鈥檚 journal.

Publications:

Peer-reviewed articles:

Theodoritsi, Mara. 鈥淟iteral and Metaphorical Puppets as Supernatural Figures: Echoes of Classical Greek Theatre in Cervantes鈥檚 Fiction鈥�. Sken猫. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 8, 1, 2022, pp. 69-86.

Theodoritsi, Mara. 鈥淟uigi Pirandello as Master Pedro in his Theater of Puppets: A Pirandellian Reading of Miguel de Cervantes鈥檚 Master Pedro Episode鈥�. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 30, 2017, pp. 53-77.

Translations:

Luigi Pirandello. 螖喂畏纬萎渭伪蟿伪 [Short Stories]. 螘魏未蠈蟽蔚喂蟼 Printa-巍慰苇蟼, 2008. Translated from Italian into Modern Greek with an introduction.

Various authors.聽螞慰喂蟺蠈谓, 苇蠂慰蠀渭蔚 蟺蠈位蔚渭慰! 鈥淎lors, c鈥檈st la guerre!鈥�. Vasilios Nikoltsios, 2010. Co-translated from Italian into Modern Greek.

Kostas Ouranis. 鈥淗ellas and Pirandello鈥�, by Kostas Ouranis. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 31, 2018, pp. 83-87. Translated from Modern Greek into English.

Kostas Ouranis. 鈥淧irandello鈥�. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 32, 2019, pp. 118-122. Translated from Modern Greek into English.