Fiona Macintosh is professor of classical reception at the

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, director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, curator of the Ioannou Centre, and a

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Career

Macintosh gained her BA in English and Greek civilisation at the

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in 1980. She remained at Leeds for her MA in English literature, awarded in 1981. Macintosh moved to

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for her PhD in classics and comparative literature, which was awarded in 1990. Macintosh was a lecturer in English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London until 2000, when she moved to Oxford as senior research fellow at the APGRD. She was reader in Greek and Roman drama from 2008 to 2014, when she became professor of classical reception. Macintosh became the director of the APGRD in January 2010. Macintosh's research focuses on the adaptation of Greek plays for the modern theatre and the reception of Greek tragedy from the

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to the present day. She has taken a particular interest in the adaptation of Greek tragedy for the Irish stage and has interviewed

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on the subject and discussed with Wayne Jordan his adaptation of

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for the

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, in 2015. Macintosh has also researched adaptations of

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for the Irish stage. Macintosh frequently appears on discussion panels and at public events to examine the re-staging of Greek drama today, such as at the

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in 2018, speaking at the SAS in 2016, debating at the

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in 2015, the

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in 2014. Macintosh was invited to deliver the keynote lecture "From hearth to Hades: adventures with Medea and ballet d'action" at the international symposium "Placing Medea: Transfer, Spatiality, and Gender in Europe 1750−1800", at Uppsala University on April 25, 2018. Macintosh will deliver the 2018–19 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities on 17 May 2019 at the

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. Macintosh has been at the forefront of exploring the potential of presenting research in interactive multimedia ebooks, publishing performance histories that showcase digitised archival material and newly commissioned films, art, audio, and audio-visual material. The earliest fruit of this exploration has been the e-book
Medea, a performance history
', published by the APGRD in 2016. A second e-book, dedicated to the performance history of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, is forthcoming (2019).

Selected publications

* ''Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama'' (

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, 1994) * ''Medea in Performance'' (2000) * ''Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus'' (

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, 2009) * with

Edith Hall Edith Hall, (born 4 March 1959) is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. She is a Fellow of the Bri ...

Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914 ''Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914'' is a non-fiction book authored by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh. It was published on 15 September 2015 by the Oxford University Press. Chronological coverage is from the British Restoration ...

'' (

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, 2005) * with Claire Kenward and Tom Wrobel
Medea, a performance history
' (APGRD 2016), an interactive/multimedia ebook * ed. with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, Claire Kenward ''Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century'' (Oxford University Press, 2018)

References

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