Tita Kyrtsakas received her BA(H) in English and Drama (2015) and B.Ed. from the University of Windsor (2019) and her MA with a SSHRC grant from the University of Toronto in Theatre, Drama, and Performance Studies (2016). She finds great joy in teaching and she is excited to be a PhD student at York, researching representations of grief and hope in contemporary Young Adult fiction and theatre from the perspective of age.

In 2019, Tita received the Ada Slaight Award in Drama from Young People’s Theatre and is currently their scholar-in-residence. She is also editor of Feminist Space Camp Magazine, an online digital art collective, and is a creative writer (Sandpiper Journal, Type/Cast Magazine and Shameless Magazine.) Outside of school, Tita loves eating food all across the city, attending art shows, and practicing yoga.

Email address: titak@yorku.ca