George Sampatakakis

George is Associate Professor of Drama and Performance at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, Greece. He is a graduate of the Department of Theatre Studies of the University of Athens (BA, honors) and has studied Classics (M.Phil.) at the University of Cambridge. He holds a Ph.D. in Drama and Theatre (2005) from the University of London (Royal Holloway). His areas of interest include Performance Studies, the Reception of Greek Drama, Theatre Histories and Theories, and Queer Theory. George has published many books and articles on the abovementioned areas, and his most recent publications include: “From the ekkyklema to Ivo Van Hove: The Technology of Presence in Multimedia Theatre and the Presence of the Digital in Performance”, G. Rodosthenous and A. Poulou (eds), Greek Tragedy and the Digital, London: Bloomsbury, 2022 (forthcoming);"VISUAL ESSAY: Rebranding the nation: Performances of 1821", Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 8.1, 2022, 117-123; HIV/AIDS, Θέατρο και Τραύμα/HIV/AIDS, Theatre and Trauma, Athens: Sokoli Publications, 2021; "From national panegyrics to stage scandal: Athanasios Diakos in history", Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2021, 7:2, 281-299; "Women in extremis: Isabelle Huppert in the Director’s Theatre", N. Rees-Roberts – D. Waldron (eds), Isabelle Huppert: Stardom, Performance and Authorship, New York: Bloomsbury, 2020, 59-77; "Bodies of truth: The terrible beauty of queer performance", Journal of Greek Media and Culture, 4.2 (2019): 255-266;  "The Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos", Dionysus in Exile: The Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos, Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2019, 18-32. He has also participated in many international conferences and has been a member of state committees.