Mara Theodoritsi
Instructor
Email: mtheodoritsi@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-1082
Mailing Address:
Dalhousie University
6135 University Ave., Rm. 3106
PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
- Twentieth-century Italian literature
- Translation and interpreting
- Second language pedagogy
- Spanish Golden Age literature
- Puppet theatre
Education:
• BA National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (Greece)
• MA University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
• MA University of Texas at Brownsville (USA)
• 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’s headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, and worked at the European Union Intellectual Property Office in Alicante, Spain. After receiving two Master’s 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’s journal.
Publications:
Peer-reviewed articles:
Theodoritsi, Mara. “Literal and Metaphorical Puppets as Supernatural Figures: Echoes of Classical Greek Theatre in Cervantes’s Fiction”. Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies, 8, 1, 2022, pp. 69-86.
Theodoritsi, Mara. “Luigi Pirandello as Master Pedro in his Theater of Puppets: A Pirandellian Reading of Miguel de Cervantes’s Master Pedro Episode”. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 30, 2017, pp. 53-77.
Translations:
Luigi Pirandello. Διηγήματα [Short Stories]. Εκδόσεις Printa-Ροές, 2008. Translated from Italian into Modern Greek with an introduction.
Various authors. Λοιπόν, έχουμε πόλεμο! “Alors, c’est la guerre!”. Vasilios Nikoltsios, 2010. Co-translated from Italian into Modern Greek.
Kostas Ouranis. “Hellas and Pirandello”, by Kostas Ouranis. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 31, 2018, pp. 83-87. Translated from Modern Greek into English.
Kostas Ouranis. “Pirandello”. The Journal of The Pirandello Society of America, 32, 2019, pp. 118-122. Translated from Modern Greek into English.