Kyriaki (Iria) Ioannidou

Kyriaki A. Ioannidou (BA Athens, MSt Oxford, PhD UCL) is a classical philologist specializing in Greek New Comedy, Papyrology, and Theatre Studies (MA, Open University of Cyprus). Currently, she is an Adjunct Lecturer and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Open University of Cyprus, where she coordinates the Research Project “Menander Redivivus: New Comedy on the Modern Stage”. She has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Cambridge Center of Greek Studies (University of Cambridge, 2024-2025) and at the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University, 2022-2023).
As a classical philologist specializing in ancient theatre, Kyriaki has been teaching Ancient Theatre at the Open University of Cyprus and has also collaborated with theatre organisations in Cyprus and internationally as a dramaturg, director, and academic advisor. Her work in performance focuses on the theoretical and practical foundations of fragments in contemporary theatrical practice, with a particular focus on staging fragments of ancient Greek comedy on the modern stage. She is a member of the artistic group Persona. She has served as a Cultural Officer at the Cyprus Deputy Ministry of Culture (2017-2025) and as the President of the National Committee of Monuments of the Republic of Cyprus (2020-2024).
Kyriaki is also an external collaborator in the international research project Kommentierung der Fragmente der griechischen Komödie (University of Freiburg), within which she published in 2026 her first monograph, a commentary on Menander’s Achaioi-Thais (fr. 89-169). She is currently preparing her second monograph, A Commentary on the Hēros and Theophoroumenē of Menander, which is under contract to be published by De Gruyter (Texte und Kommentare series). She is also the co-editor, together with Associate Professor Antonis K. Petrides, of the edited volume Studies in Fragmentary Menander, forthcoming in the Studia Comica series.