Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Contributors
Arlene Allan is senior lecturer in classics at the University of Otago, with research interests in ancient Greek drama, religion, and society, and the cognitive science of religion. She is the author of several articles on tragedy and the Greek god Hermes, as well as co-author (with I. C. Storey) of A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (revised second edition; Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
Christopher Bungard is associate professor of classics at Butler University. His current research interests focus largely on variations in the role of the servus callidus across the Plautine corpus. As a result of the NEH Summer Institute in Roman Comedy in performance, he is also working on the ways that performance enhances our understanding of Roman comedy.
Brian Lush is assistant professor of classics at Macalester College. His research explores instances of dramatic and intellectual dissonance in the tragedies of Euripides. He is the author of “Irony and the Rejection of Imagined Alternatives in Euripides’ Alcestis” (Classical Journal 107.4 [2012]: 385–407) and currently has a piece under consideration about political subjectivity and conflict in Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis.
Maria Mackay is a Ph.D. candidate in classics at the University of Otago with degrees in Linguistics, English, and Classics. Her current research project, tentatively entitled “Klytaimestra: Gene and Gender Conflict in Greek Tragedy,” is informed by her primary research interests in biopoetics and its application as an analytical tool to the narratives of ancient epic and drama.
Daniel Turkeltaub is assistant professor of classics at Santa Clara University. He has published articles on Euripides’ Hecuba, Homeric epic, and the Homeric Hymns and is currently working on a book on divine epiphanies in the Homeric epics and Hymns. [End Page 107]
