Contributors
- Contributors
Amanda Wrigley is Research Associate at the University of Westminster on the AHRC-funded project Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television, and an Associate Lecturer for the Open University, UK. She was Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at Northwestern University, 2009–10, and Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford, 2001–9. A full research profile is available at http://amandawrigley.wordpress.com.
Her first book, Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players, appeared in January 2011. She is currently writing Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greek Literature, History and Thought on BBC Radio, 1920s–1960s and co-editing (with S. Harrison) Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays. She has served as co-editor of Aristophanes in Performance, 421 bc–ad 2007 (with E. Hall; 2007) and Dionysus since 69 (with E. Hall and F. Macintosh; 2004).
Recent essays include "A Wartime Radio Odyssey: Edward Sackville-West and Benjamin Britten's The Rescue (1943)," Radio Journal 8, no.2 (2010), "Robert Bridges' Masque Demeter and Oxford's Persephones," New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 5 (2010), and "Greek Immigrants Playing Ancient Greeks at Chicago's Hull-House: Whose Antiquity?" (with Robert Davis), Journal of American Drama and Theatre (Spring 2011).
Debra Caplan is a PhD Candidate at Harvard University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, where her interdisciplinary research focuses on Yiddish theater, modernism, and Jewish performance around the world. At Harvard, Debra is also the Assistant Director of the new Mellon School of Theater and Performance Research. She is currently writing her dissertation on the modernist interwar Yiddish art theater movement in Poland and the United States, and completing an article on Greek tragedy in Yiddish for the forthcoming Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (2012). [End Page 549]
Robert Davis is a PhD Candidate in Theatre at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. His article "The Riddle of the Oedipus: Practising Reception and the Antebellum American Theatre," appeared in New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 3 (2008). His dissertation, "Performance and Spectatorship in United States World's Fairs, 1876–1893," examines fairgoer behavior at late nineteenth-century international exhibitions in Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Chicago.
Lorna Hardwick is Professor Emeritus in Classical Studies at the Open University, UK. She is series editor (with Professor James Porter) of Oxford Studies in Classical Receptions: Classical Presences and editor of the Classical Receptions Journal. Her publications include Translating Words, Translating Cultures (2000), New Surveys in the Classics: Reception Studies (2003), Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds (ed. with Carol Gillespie, 2007) and Companion to Classical Receptions (ed. with Christopher Stray, 2008).
Eleftheria Ioannidou is Humboldt Research Fellow in Theatre Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her research interests lie in twentieth-century adaptation and performance of Greek tragedy. She is currently focusing on Greek, Italian, and German performances in the 1920s to the 1930s, investigating the engagement of totalitarian ideologies with antiquity. Her publications include articles in journals and edited volumes. She is co-editor of the volume Epidaurus Encounters: Greek Drama, Ancient Theatre and Modern Performance (forthcoming).
C. W. Marshall is Associate Professor of Greek and Roman Theatre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy (2006) and has co-edited, with Tiffany Potter, volumes on Battlestar Galactica (2008) and The Wire (2009), and, with George Kovacs, Classics and Comics (2011).
Simon Perris teaches ancient languages and literature in the Classics Programme at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His teaching and research interests center on drama, performance, translation, and linguistics. He has published articles on reception theory and on the [End Page 550] translation of Euripides, and he is currently writing a monograph on the modern reception of Euripides' Bacchae.
Michele Valerie Ronnick is a Professor in the Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Wayne State University in Detroit. She completed her dissertation on Cicero at Boston University under the guidance of Meyer Reinhold. She is particularly interested in Latin literature from all periods, the classical tradition in general, and in black classicism in particular...
