Martina Treu

CURRENT POSITION:

Assistant Professor in Greek Language and Literature at IULM University (Milan, Italy). She graduated at Pavia University and she completed her Phd in Classical Philology at Padova university. In 2012, she achieved the periodic National Examination as Associate Professor in Greek Language and Literature, Classical Philology and History of Greek and Roman Theatre.

 

Research area:

Her main research area is classical reception, adaptation and performance of Greek Drama. She is coordinator and speaker of the Imagines Project (http://www.imagines-project.org/), founder and  member of CRIMTA - University of Pavia (www.unipv.it/crimta). She has been Visiting Assistant Professor in Drama at the University of Venice and at the Catholic University, Brescia. She has worked as a Dramaturg in many Italian and European theatres and cooperated to a few adaptations of classical texts for the stage. Among her recent publications: Classici siciliani ‘nell’occhio del Ciclope’, tra testi greci e riscritture moderne, in Antologia Teatrale. Atto secondo, a cura di Antonia Lezza, Federica Caiazzo, Emanuela Ferrauto, Napoli Liguori¸2021, pp.225-239, “Enciclopedia della voce”, Edizioni dell'Orso, Alessandria, 2022; Incense on the grass in The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination: The Fragrant and the Foul, ed. by Adeline Grand-Clément and Charlotte Ribeyrol, Bloomsbury, London, 2022; Metamorfosi del trauma e violenza tragica, in Altre Modernità, 2022¸https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline; Aeschylus, Homer, and Greek ancestors in modern Sicilian theatre, in Staged Self, Embodied Other: Rethinking and Performing Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times, edited by Alena Sarkissian and Eliška Poláčková, Brill, Leiden, 2022; Eschilo in Sicilia: l’Agamènnuni di Isgrò - Pirrotta (1983-2021), in Agamennone Classico e contemporaneo, a c. di Alessandro Iannucci, Francesco Citti, Antonio Ziosi, 2022.

 

Academic Disciplines:

10/D2 Greek Language and Literature; 10/D4 Classical and late antique Philology, Classical Theatre

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RECENT PUBLICATIONS:

 

I). Books

1. Undici cori comici. Aggressività, derisione e tecniche drammatiche in Aristofane, volume n. 181 della collana del D.AR.FI.CL.ET. (Dipartimento di Archeologia e Filologia Classica “Francesco Della Corte”), Genova, Università degli Studi di Genova, 1999.
2. Cosmopolitico. Il teatro greco sulla scena italiana contemporanea, Milano, Arcipelago Edizioni, 2005.
3. La Mitologia a test, Milano, Alphatest, 2008.
4. Il teatro antico nel Novecento, Roma, Carocci, 2009.
5. La mythologie, Paris, Belin, 2009
6. Mitologia. Domande e risposte, Milano, Alphatest, 2011.

 

Essays and chapters in books

1. The history of ancient drama in modern Italy, in A Handbook to the reception of Greek Drama, ed. by B. Van Zyl Smit. London, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 2016: 221-237.
2. Ajax, in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Sophocles, ed. by R. Lauriola and K. Demetriou. Leiden/ Boston, Brill, 2017: 27-76.
3. Sailors on board, heroes en route (with Erika Notti), in The Ancient Mediterranean Sea in Modern Visual and Performing Arts. Sailing in Troubled Waters., ed.by R. Rovira Guardiola . London, Bloomsbury, 2018:.121-143.
4. L’arte di Emilio Isgrò tra epos e teatro: dall’Orestea di Gibellina all’Odissea cancellata, in Il racconto a teatro. Dal dramma antico al Siglo de Oro alla scena contemporanea, ed. by G. Ieranò and P. Taravacci. Trento, Labirinti, 2018: 279-305.
5. Classics “the “Italian Way” a Long-Standing Paradox”, in Echoing Voices in Italian Literature: Tradition and Translation in the 20th Century, edited by Teresa Franco and Cecilia Piantanida, Cambridge Scholar Press, 2018: 100-119.
6.  “Protagonista” e “Mattatore”. Attori antichi e moderni a confronto, in L’Attore Tragico, ed by E. Matelli, EDUCatt, 2017: 83-93.
7. Quattro donne, un coro: Euripide destrutturato. Riscritture e allestimenti recenti delle Troiane in Troiane classiche e contemporanee, ed by F. Citti, A Iannucci, A Ziosi, Hildesheim - Zürich - New York, Olms, 2017: 217-243.
8. A. Besana, A. Esposito, M. Treu, The philanthropy tree of community foundations from ancient to contemporary times. Roots and branches of US and Italian foundations, in Advances in Time Series Data Methods in Applied Economic Research – Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Applied Economics (ICOAE) Warsaw 2018. Berlin: Springer Verlag.
9. ‛Guidaci a passo di danza...’Cori comici sulla scena, in S. Bigliazzi, F. Lupi. G. Ugolini (eds), Συναγωνίζεσθαι. Studies in Honour of Guido Avezzù, Skenè. Studies 1, Verona, 2018: 859-881.

 

In press

 

1. L’oralità torna in scena, in Arte Orale e Cultura scritta, edited by Lorenzo Cardilli et al., 2020.
2. Una voce, un coro. Parte I, in Enciclopedia della voce umana, edited by Marta Muscariello and Stefano Lombardi Vallauri, 2020.
3. Milano: la città-palinsesto di Emilio Isgrò, in Milano e la memoria, edited by Paolo Giovannetti and Simona Moretti 2020.
4. Incense on the grass in The Smells and Senses of Antiquity in the Modern Imagination: The Fragrant and the Foul, edited by Adeline Grand-Clément and Charlotte Ribeyrol, Bloomsbury, London, 2021.
5. Aeschylus’ Heritage: Greek tragedy in Sicily, in Staged Self, Embodied Other: Rethinking and Performing Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times, edited by Alena Sakissian and Eliška Poláčková, Brill, Leiden, 2021.
6. I Greci di Sicilia: nell’occhio del Ciclope, in Antologia Teatrale, volume 2, edited by Antonia Lezza, Napoli Liguori, 2021.
7. The tell-tale Chorus, in Choralities in ancient Greece: New Approaches, ed. by S. Caneva, R. García, M. Reig, Berlin / Boston, DeGruyter, 2021.
8. I Persiani: una vertigine di moltitudine, in Scritti in onore di Jaume Portulas, ed. by Xavier Riu, Barcellona, 2021.

 

Articles and reviews

1. “Il ritorno di Alcesti”, Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali, 32, 2015: 11-44
2.  “Una moltitudine di Nessuno. L’Odissea e il Mediterraneo in scena”, Alessandria, n.8.2014 [2015], Alessandria, Edizioni dell’Orso: 181-201.
3. “Aspettando Alcesti. Il 52mo ciclo di spettacoli classici a Siracusa”, Le Muse, anno III n.2, December 2015, pp.94-103.
4. “Spettatori in crescita: il caso Siracusa”, Stratagemmi, 21 July 2016, https://www.stratagemmi.it/spettatori-in-crescita-il-caso-siracusa/
5. “La parola va in scena”, Stratagemmi, 2 agosto 2016,
6. “Dario Fo in Frogs Revisited”, Stratagemmi, 16 ottobre 2016,
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8. “La parola va in scena”, Stratagemmi, 2 August 2016, https://www.stratagemmi.it/la-parola-va-in-scena/
9. “Dario Fo in Frogs Revisited”, Stratagemmi, 16 October 2016, https://www.stratagemmi.it/dario-fo-in-frog-revisited/.
10. “Forever Young? Coro, attori e pubblico alla ricerca di Dioniso”, Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali, 34, 2016: 43-74.
11.  “Maria Arpaia Angela Albanese, Carla Russo (eds.) L’oralità sulla scena. Adattamenti e transcodificazioni dal racconto orale al linguaggio del teatro Napoli, Università degli studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”, 2015”, Between, vol. VI, n. 12 (Novembre/November 2016)
12. “Euripide e Seneca (non) si incontrano a Tindari”, Classico Contemporaneo, 24 May 2017, https://www.classicocontemporaneo.eu/index.php/aggiornamenti/eventi/396-euripide-e-seneca-non-si-incontrano-a-tindari.
13. “Un’arena nuova per il teatro antico – Persiani di Eschilo e altri appuntamenti all’Arena Shakespeare, Parma”, www.stratagemmi.it, Focus, 7 July 2017.
14. “Tre talenti a Siracusa”, Classico Contemporaneo, 17 August 2017, http://www.classicocontemporaneo.eu/index.php/aggiornamenti/eventi/337-tre-talenti-a-siracusa.
15. “Il laboratorio Albini” in Umberto Albini e la traduzione di Aristofane, a cura di Maddalena Giovannelli, Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali, 36, 2017: 225-238.
16. Ulysses’ Journey and Homer’s Odyssey, an eternal return. In The Eternal Return: Myth Updating in Contemporary Literature, ed.by Ana González-Rivas and Antonella Lipscomb, JCLA, Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, issue 40.2, 2017: 103-122.
17. “Aristofane, Nomi in commedia (Parte I). Il destino nel nome: Acarnesi, Cavalieri e Nuvole”, in Il nome nel testo. Rivista internazionale di onomastica letteraria, XXI, 2019: 125-134.
18.  “Il Popolo e i suoi servi”, in “La Platea del consenso”, Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali, special issue, n.38-39, 2019, edited by Martina Treu: 97-112.
19. “Erase and Rewrite. Ancient Texts, Modern Palimpsests”, Skenè. Journal of Theatre and Drama studies, vol.5 n.2 (2019): 176-201.
20.  “Ritorno all’epica (del futuro)”, Stratagemmi, 24 February 2020, https://www.stratagemmi.it/ritorno-allepica-del-futuro/
21. “Ulisse ed Enea: i primi profughi”, Hystrio, N.3/2020, p.47.
22. “Il teatro come antidoto: Edipo e la peste”, Stratagemmi, online, 1 September 2020, https://www.stratagemmi.it/il-teatro-come-antidoto-edipo-al-tempo-della-pandemia/.

Books (editor):

1. Emilio Isgrò, L’Orestea di Gibellina e gli altri testi per il teatro, ed. by Martina Treu, Firenze, Le Lettere, 2011.
2. Dossier Il comico. Istruzioni per l’uso (ed.by Maddalena Giovannelli and Martina Treu), Hystrio, n.4, 2015.
3. La platea del consenso, Stratagemmi. Prospettive teatrali n.36, edited by Martina Treu, 2019.

 

 




 
 

 

 

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COURSES 2022/2023

Bachelor of Science  in Arts, media, cultural events

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Culture

History of Ancient Art

Arts and drama in the classical world

COURSES 2021/2022

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Territory

Arts and Drama in the Classical World

Bachelor of Science in Arts, media, cultural events

History of Ancient Art

COURSES 2020/2021

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Territory

Arts and drama in the classical world

Bachelor of Science in Arts, media, cultural events

History of ancient art

COURSES 2019/2020

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Territory

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

COURSES 2018/2019

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Territory

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

Bachelor of Science in Tourism: culture and development of territories

Tourist enhancement of the archaeological heritage

COURSES 2017/2018

Bachelor of Science in Tourism, Management and Territory

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

COURSES 2016/2017

Bachelor in Arts, Design and Entertainment

Bachelor in Tourism: Culture and Territory Development

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

Master's Degree in Arts, Heritage and Markets

Laboratory of artistic and cultural design

COURSES 2015/2016

Degree Course in Arts, Design and Entertainment (in common with the Degree Course in Tourism: culture and development of territories)

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

Master's Degree in Arts, Heritage and Markets

Laboratory of artistic and cultural design

COURSES 2014/2015

Degree Course in Arts, Design and Entertainment (in common with Degree Courses Tourism: culture and development of territories; Tourism, events and territory; Communication in art and culture markets)

Arts and dramaturgy of the classical world

COURSES 2012/2013
Master's Degree Course in Arts, Heritage and Markets

Classical Arts and  Literatures

COURSES 2011/2012
Master's Degree Course in Arts, Assets and Markets.

Classical arts and literature

COURSES 2010/2011

Degree Course in Tourism, culture and territory

Theatrical spaces of the ancient world

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