Directory of Researchers
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Deakin University
Dr Ivar Kvistad
Associate Lecturer
Literary Studies, School of Communication & Creative Arts
Email: i.kvistad@deakin.edu.au
Research Interests: Representations of antiquity in modern literature, film and popular culture. Postcolonial and feminist versions of Euripides' Medea. He has published articles on Tony Harrison's Medea: A Sex-War Opera; the cult television series Xena: Warrior Princess; and culture wars within the field of the classics.
Current Projects: Ivar is working on a number of reception projects. One concerns Australian productions of Euripides' Medea; another concerns the popular film The Mummy in relation to the discourses of orientalism and Egyptophilia. Forthcoming articles are on Wesley Enoch's play Black Medea and on Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Medea (in-press).
Macquarie University
Timothy Scott
Postgraduate Student
Department of Ancient History, Division of Humanities
Email: timothy.scott@students.mq.edu.au
Research Interests: Imperial Rome, 'Germanic' antiquity, historiography, contemporary European and German studies, ethnicity, national identity.
Current Projects: PhD Thesis on post-reunification German historiographical approaches to ethnicity and ethnic identity in the Antique West. The thesis considers the impact that contemporary Germany and Europe have had on the interpretations and depictions of the ancient 'Germanic' past.
Monash University
Dr Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Classical Studies Program,
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics
Email: jane.griffiths@arts.monash.edu.au
Website: www.arts.monash.edu.au/classical/staff/griffiths.html
Research Interests: Greek and Roman theatre in modern performance and reception; application of critical, cultural and performance theory to the Classics.
Current Projects: Working on the application of interdisciplinary/transferable methodologies to the study of ancient dramatic texts and contemporary performance practice (in particular, experiential insight and reflective practice in relation to performances of Sophocles’ Electra).
Natasha Amendola
Postgraduate Student,
Department of Historical Studies
Email: rname1@student.monash.edu.au
Research Interests: Medieaval writers who were interested in Greek Mythology.
Current Projects: Currently researching medieval and renaissance representations of the character Penelope (focus on literary sources, Latin and some vernacular and their illustrations).
University of Adelaide
Dr Victoria Jennings
Visiting Research Fellow (Classics)
Email: victoria.jennings@adelaide.edu.au
Website: www.geocities.com/vjj20
Research Interests: The figure of Aesop, the ancient fabulist, in the various versions of the Life of Aesop and other ancient and modern texts. She has written on the Roman fabulist Phaedrus’ manipulation of the Aesopic tradition of dissent (in W.J. Dominik and J. Garthwaite, eds., Writing Politics in Imperial Rome, Brill, forthcoming). She has recently co-edited a volume on Ion of Chios, the fifth-century Greek polymath (in press).
Current Projects: She is a research assistant on two reception projects ('Classical Monsters' and 'The Birth of Pornography') underway in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Sydney.
University of Canterbury
Associate Professor Robin Bond
School of Classics and Linguistics
Email: robin.bond@canterbury.ac.nz
Research Interests: The translation and presentation for the contemporary stage of classical drama, both Greek and Latin.
Current Projects: A translation of Euripides' "Alcestis" for possible production to coincide with 2008 ASCS/NZ Triennial at Canterbury. Also a production of Euripides' "Cyclops" at the same time in a version based on the translation of my colleague Dr Patrick O'Sullivan. I am also interested in building up a teaching collection of tapes/DVDs of appropriate material for use in researching and teaching modern re-presentations of ancient drama.
University of Melbourne
Aleks Michalewicz
Postgraduate Student, Sessional Tutor
The Centre for Classics and Archaeology
Email: aleksm@unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests: The uses of myth in contemporary settings, specifically as it is utilised in music; constructions of masculinity; sex and gender; transgression; hybridity; liminality; ritual.
Current Projects: M. A. thesis on demigods at Troy: their role in the destruction of the city, and the end this heralds for the 'heroic' generations within Greek myth.
Sarah Midford
Postgraduate student and tutor
E-mail: midfords@unimelb.edu.au
Research interests: Roman republican triumph, modern processions and their relation to the triumphal procession, visual spectacle in Rome, ancient propaganda in art and architecture.
Paul Monaghan
Lecturer in Theatre Studies, Creative Arts Program
School of Culture and Communication
Email: pmonag@unimelb.edu.au
Website: www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/staff/index.lasso
Research Interests: Greek and Roman theatre in performance, in both the ancient and the modern world, and Australian contemporary theatre practice.
Current Projects: Paul is co-convenor and co-editor of the Double Dialogues conference and journal (www.doubledialogues.com), and co-convenor of the Dramaturgies project (www.realtimearts.net then go to 'Dramaturgies Now'), which examines dramaturgical practice in Australian theatre. He is currently combining these various interests in a major project on the reception of Greek tragedy in Australia. In 2006 he co-convened the international conference held in Melbourne, Close Relations: The Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre (www.cca.unimelb.edu.au/close/) . He is completing his PhD this year on Prometheus, Metaphysics and Theatre in antiquity and Modernism. Paul has published a number of articles on the reception of Greek tragedy in Australia, which are listed on his staff profile at www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/staff/index.lasso
Miriam Riverlea
Postgraduate Student, Sessional Tutor
Email: m.riverlea@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests: The manifestations of myth in ancient and contemporary contexts; the role of children's literature in perpetuating the classical tradition; the enduring power of the Troy story.
Current Projects: M.A. thesis on the myth of the wooden horse - its crafting, development and deployment.
Estelle Strazdins
Tutor, Postgraduate Student
School of Historical Studies
Email: east@unimelb.edu.au
Research Interests: Cultural identity (ancient and modern). The intersection of the ancient and modern worlds in various media (literature/film/visual art/drama etc). The use (and abuse) of myth in the modern world.
Current Projects: My PhD explores celebrity and identity in the second-to-third centuries CE.
University of New England
Elizabeth Hale
Lecturer, School of English, Communication & Theatre
Email: ehale@une.edu.au
Website: www.une.edu.au/arts/ECT/staff/ehale.htm
Research Interests: Nineteenth-century British classical tradition; esp. representation of classical scholars, the classical impulse in children's literature; the underworld, classical and Christian. New Zealand children's literature.
Current Projects: Articles on masculinity in Victorian representations of classical scholars; a book on the role of intelligence in Victorian children's literature. Edited book on The Three Worlds of Maurice Gee (with Lawrence Jones).
University of Newcastle
Associate Professor Michael Ewans
School of Drama Fine Art and Music
Email: Michael.Ewans@newcastle.edu.au
Research Interests: Greek Tragedy and Comedy, reception of Greek tragedy into opera and modern drama, expressionist theatre
Current Projects: Opera from the Greek: Studies in the Poetics of Appropriation (forthcoming Ashgate, 2007). Aristophanes; the last years of the war (new accurate and actable translations with theatrical commentary of Lysistrata, the Women's Festival and Frogs)
Dr Marguerite Johnson
Lecturer, School of Humanities and Social Science
Email: Marguerite.Johnson@newcastle.edu.au
Website: www.newcastle.edu.au/school/hss/staff/johnsonmarguerite/index.html
Research Interests: Representations of Medea in 20th Century culture. Representations of Sappho from post-antiquity to the present.
University of Sydney
Dr. Alastair Blanshard
Lecturer
Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, SOPHI
Email: alastair.blanshard@arts.usyd.edu.au
Research Interests: Greek cultural history, the use of myth, the politics of translation, classics and popular culture, and issues of gender and sexuality
Dr. Emma Gee
Kevin Lee Memorial Lecturer in Ancient Greek
Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, SOPHI
Email: emma.gee@arts.usyd.edu.au
Research Interests: Astronomy and the Roman calendar, ancient science. She is the author of Ovid, Aratus and Augustus (CUP, 2000). Her particular Renaissance interest is the Sphera of George Buchanan (1506-82).
Current Projects: Cosmology and the afterlife in Greece and Rome, which includes the reception of Plato's ideas of the Afterlife at Rome. She is undertaking an article on Aratus for the Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum: Medieval and Renaissance Latin Translations and Commentaries. This will form an essential reference work on the reception of Aratus from antiquity to the Renaissance.
Dr Nicholas Hardwick
Honorary Associate
Department of
Classics and Ancient History
Email: hardwick@mail.usyd.edu.au
Research Interests: Ancient coinage, especially Greek coinage (Chios, Athens and Terone); archaic silver ingots and precious metal use; forgeries of ancient Greek coins made in Italy in the 18th century; the representation of classical antiquities in 19th century paintings, especially ancient Jewish coins in two works of William Holman Hunt; the iconography of south Italian vase painting, especially representations of Euripides' Medea; and the curation of antiquities.
Ms Frances Muecke
Senior Lecturer
Dept. of Classics & Ancient History, SOPHI
Email: Frances.Muecke@arts.usyd.edu.au
Research Interests: She is currently working on an an edition of the Renaissance humanist Domizio Calderini’s ‘lost’ commentary on Silius Italicus, a critical edition of Andrea Fulvio's Antiquaria Urbis (1513), a translation of Biondo Flavio's Roma triumphans and an essay on the reception of Silius Italicus in Renaissance Italy. Publications include a book on C.-A. Dufresnoy’s De arte graphica, a collaboration with C. Allen and Y.A. Haskell, 2005 (Droz: Geneva).
University of Tasmania
Associate Professor Peter Davis
E-mail: Peter.Davis@utas.edu.au
Website: cms.its.utas.edu.au/arts/history/pagedetails.asp?lpersonId=2035
Research Interests: the reception of Senecan tragedy in Renaissance drama; Ovid's erotic poetry
Current Projects: the representation of war in Roman epic
University of Western Australia
Associate Professor Yasmin Haskell
Cassamarca Foundation Associate Professor in Latin Humanism
Chair of the Discipline Group in Medieval and Early Modern Studies
Dept. of Classics and Ancient History, School of Humanties
Email: yah@arts.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://www.classics.uwa.edu.au/staff/haskell
Research Interests: neo-Latin literature, especially poetry; early modern Jesuits; humanism and science and medicine.
Current Projects: A book on 'hypochondria' in early modern Italy; anthology of early modern scientific poetry; edited volume on 'Latinity and Alterity in the Early Modern Period' (with Juanita Ruys); various articles on the early modern reception of Lucretius.
Richard Read
Architecture, Landscape, Visual Art
Email: rread@cyllene.uwa.edu
Research Interests: British Grand Tour to Italy C17 to present; History of painting.
Current Projects: The Trope of Contrast in the British Grand Tour of Italy; Backs of Paintings from Classical Times to the Present.
Victoria University (Wellington)
Professor John Davidson
Classics, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies
Email: John.Davidson@vuw.ac.nz
Research Interests: Greek drama and modern drama/opera; Greek mythology; New Zealand poetry.
Current Projects: Co-authorship of book on classical mythology in the work of New Zealand author James K. Baxter (1926-72); Articles on Baxter's four 'Greek' plays; Article on Richard Wagner and Greek tragedy.
James McNamara
Postgraduate Student
Department of
Classics
Email: jdmcnamara@gmail.com
Current Projects: MA thesis on the reception of Tacitus' Germania in the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic since the Second World War, particularly its use as a school text.
Associate Professor Arthur Pomeroy
Department of
Classics
Email: Arthur.Pomeroy@vuw.ac.nz
Website: www.vuw.ac.nz/classics/staff/arthur_pomeroy/index.html
Research Interests: The portrayal of the ancient world in film and on television. He has published on Ridley Scott\'s Gladiator as well as presenting papers on Alexander films, Odyssean themes, and classical references in Buffy the Vampire Slayer at various international conferences.
Current Projects: "And Then it was Destroyed by the Volcano": a book on depictions of the ancient world in film and television (Duckworth).
Dr Babette Puetz
Lecturer
Department of Classics, School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies
Email: babette.puetz@vuw.ac.nz
Website: www.vuw.ac.nz/classics/staff/babette_puetz/index.html
Research Interests: Greek drama, especially Aristophanes, ancient mythology and its uses in modern literature, ancient Greek drinking parties.
Current Projects: animal imagery and species-boundary crossing of characters in Aristophanic comedy and other Greek drama.
Jo Whalley
Postgraduate Student
Department of Classics
Email: euripidesgirl@hotmail.com
Research Interests: Women in antiquity; feminist approaches to classics research; Greek tragedy and modern re-interpretation of this genre; classics on film; and several billion other things!
Current Projects: Currently I am a Ph.D. candidate investigating how the Amazons were presented in antiquity, and how the Amazon figure is still represented now, in media such as television and film.
Australasians Abroad
Simon Perris
Postgraduate Student
Magdalen College, Oxford
Email: simon.perris@classics.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: Reception of Greek literature; Greek drama, especially Euripides; epic; reception theory and the classics.
Current Projects: DPhil thesis on the post-WWII literary reception of Euripides' Bacchae in English.
Dr Kathleen Riley
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Email: kathleen.riley@classics.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests: The reception and performance history of Greek and Roman tragedy.
Current Projects: Kathleen is working on an international and interdisciplinary study of the modernist reception of Greek Tragedy, The Shock of the Old. Her doctoral thesis, Reasoning Madness: The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles, will be published as an Oxford Classical Monograph in 2008. She is also co-editor of Dionysus Recast: Ancient Drama on Modern Stages (Legenda, forthcoming).
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