Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward
Author Information
Fiona Macintosh, Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford,Justine McConnell, Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London,Stephen Harrison, Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford,Claire Kenward, Archivist and Researcher, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford
Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (OUP, 2010) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015).
Justine McConnell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of three volumes: Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (with Edith Hall and Richard Alson; OUP, 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), and Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (with Edith Hall; Bloomsbury, 2016).
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (OUP, 1991), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013), and Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? (co-edited with Lorna Hardwick; OUP, 2013).
Dr Claire Kenward is Archivist and Researcher at the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD). She has published on the reception of Greek drama and epic in early modern England, though her current research and forthcoming publications focus on the reception of Homer's Iliad in science fiction and speculative fantasy; she is also the co-author and curator of the APGRD's two multimedia, interactive eBooks: Medea - A Performance History (2016) and Agamemnon - A Performance History (2018).
Contributors:
Graeme Bird is Associate Professor of Linguistics and Classics at Gordon College, Wenham
Rachel Bryant Davies is an Addison Wheeler Fellow in the Department of Classics at Durham University and an Early Career Associate with the APGRD at the University of Oxford
Colin Burrow is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College
Imogen Choi is Associate Professor of Spanish Golden Age Literature at Exeter College, Oxford
Marie-Louise Crawley is a choreographer and PhD candidate at C-DaRE (Centre for Dance Research), Coventry University
Cecile Dudouyt is Assistant Professor at the University of Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite
Tatiana Faia is a scholar and poet affiliated to the Centre for Classical Studies of the University of Lisbon
Barbara Graziosi is Professor of Classics at the University of Durham
Emily Greenwood is Professor of Classics at Yale University
Edith Hall is Professor of Classics at King's College London and co-founder and Consultant Director of the APGRD at the University of Oxford
Lorna Hardwick is Emeritus Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University, and an Honorary Research Associate at the APGRD at the University of Oxford
Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College
Stephe Harrop is Lecturer in Drama at Liverpool Hope University
Tiphaine Karsenti is Assistant Professor in Performance Studies at Paris-Nanterre University Margaret Kean is the Dame Helen Gardner Fellow and Tutor in English at St Hilda's College, Oxford
Claire Kenward is Archivist and Researcher at the APGRD, University of Oxford
Robin Kirkpatrick is Emeritus Professor of Italian and English Literature at the University of Cambridge
Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception and Director of the APGRD at the University of Oxford, and Fellow of St Hilda's College
Justine McConnell is a Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London
Pantelis Michelakis is a Reader in Classics at the University of Bristol
Laura Monros-Gaspar is Senior Lecturer in English and Head of the Area of Performing Arts at the Universitat de Valencia
Frederick Naerebout is Lecturer in Ancient History at Leiden University
Georgina Paul is Associate Professor of German at the University of Oxford and Vice Principal and Fellow and Tutor in German at St Hilda's College
Emily Pillinger is Lecturer in Latin Language and Literature in the Department of Classics at King's College London
Tanya Pollard is Professor in English at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Centre, New York
Henry Power is Associate Professor of English at the University of Exeter
Deana Rankin is Senior Lecturer in English at Royal Holloway, University of London
Patrice Rankine is Professor of Classics and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Richmond
Margaret Reynolds is Professor of English at Queen Mary, University of London
Thomas Sapsford is a Lecturer in the Department of Classics at the University of Southern California and an Early Career Associate with the APGRD at the University of Oxford
Arabella Stanger is Lecturer in Drama (: Theatre and Performance) at the University of Sussex
Henry Stead is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in English and Classical Studies at the Open University
Tim Supple is a theatre director and co-director of Dash Arts, London
Marchella Ward is completing her D.Phil. in Classics at St Hilda's College, Oxford
David Wiles is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter and a member of Wolfson College, Oxford
Wes Williams is Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford
