I am generally interested in Ancient Greek Literature as well as its rich and varied afterlife in modernity.  Most of my publications address two distinct yet complementary research areas: 1) Ancient Greek tragedy in its fifth-century BCE context (with an emphasis on the chorus) and 2) Greek drama's modern reception, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean as well as among Latinx communities in the U.S.  My work on the latter has led to a wider research interest in engagements with Greco-Roman antiquity across the Americas (especially Hellenic classicisms), and the way that these intersect with questions of gender, race, class, and national identity.
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I am the Editor of the American Journal of Philology. I also sit on the Editorial Board of two Brazilian Classics journals: Nuntius Antiquus and PhaoS - Revista de Estudos Clássicos, as well as on the Advisory Board for both the new Oxford Classical Reception Commentaries series at OUP and the international scholarly society Hesperides: Classics in the Luso-Hispanic World. With Justine McConnell I am co-editor of the Classics and the Postcolonial book series for Routledge which publishes monographs, critical editions, and essay collections that explore the invocations and uses of Greco-Roman antiquity in postcolonial contexts across the globe. 

​My research has benefited from the generous support of the British Academy, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, the Fundación BBVA (Spain), the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. 

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Ancient Greek Tragedy and Literature

I have wide-ranging interests in ancient Greek literature and culture. The bulk of my published work focuses on Greek drama and its performance in Athens, with an emphasis on the tragic chorus. Recent and ongoing projects address processes of race-making and identity construction in the ancient Greek world.

Publications

Books:

1. Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy, forthcoming Cambridge University Press
2. The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, co-edited with E. Giusti and J. Murray, forthcoming Cambridge University Press 
3. Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy, co-edited with T. Coward and T. Hadjimichael, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 58, De Gruyter: 2018 (paperback: December 2019) 

                 Review: R. Scodel, Bryn Mawr Classical Review  
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Articles and Chapters:​

1. ‘Staging Race in Greek Drama’, forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, eds. R. Andújar, E. Giusti, and J. Murray (Cambridge)
2. ‘Classics and Race: An Introduction’, forthcoming in The Cambridge Companion to Classics and Race, eds. R. Andújar, E. Giusti, and J. Murray (Cambridge) (co-authored with co-editors) 
3. ‘Geography’, in Imprints of Dance in Ancient Greece and Rome, eds. Z. Alonso Fernández and S. Olsen (Ediciones Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2024), 65-99; stemming from an international collaborative research project funded by the Fundación BBVA  
4. 'Profile: Greek Tragedy and Performance’, Classical Review Vol. 73, No. 2 (2023), 373-377
5. 'Phoenician Women: "Deviant" Thebans Out of Time', in Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy, eds. S. Olsen and M. Telò (Bloomsbury, 2022), 176-185
6. ‘Choral Mirroring in Euripides' Phaethon’, in Greek Drama V: Studies in the Theatre of the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE, eds. C. W. Marshall and H. Marshall (Bloomsbury, 2020), 101-114
7. ‘Sites of Performance and Circulation’, in A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity, ed. E. Wilson (Bloomsbury, 2019), 35-48 (with notes on pp. 155-163)
8. 'On Not Managing Mourning: The Reticent Chorus in Sophocles' Antigone', NEARCO revista de antiguidade Vol. 10, No. 2 (December 2018), 207-226
9. ‘Hyporchematic Footprints in Euripides’ Electra’, in Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy, eds. R. Andújar, T. Coward, and T. Hadjimichael (De Gruyter, 2018), 265-290
10. ‘Introduction’, in Paths of Song: The Lyric Dimension of Greek Tragedy, eds. R. Andújar, T. Coward, and T. Hadjimichael (De Gruyter, 2018), 1-15 (co-authored with co-editors)
11. ‘Sophocles’ Antigone’, in Portrayals of Antigone in Portugal, eds. C. Morais, L. Hardwick, and M. de Fátima Silva (Brill, 2017), 13-26 (co-authored with Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos)
12. ‘Uncles ex Machina: Familial Epiphany in Euripides’ Electra’, Ramus Vol. 45, No. 2 (December 2016), 165-191
13. ‘Charicleia the Martyr: Heliodorus and Early Christian Narrative’, in The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections, eds. M. P. Futre Pinheiro, J. Perkins, and R. Pervo (Ancient Narrative Supplementum 16, Barkhuis, 2013), 139-152
14. ‘Lucian’, in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Huebner (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 4155-56

​Reviews:

1. Review of J. Fletcher, Classical Greek Tragedy (Methuen Drama, 2022), Classical Review Vol. 73, No. 1 (2023), 45-47
2. Review of B. Martin, Harmful Interaction Between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy (Liverpool, 2020), Journal of Hellenic Studies Vol. 142 (2022), 356-358
3. Review of P. J. Finglass, Sophocles. Greece and Rome: New surveys in the classics, 44 (Cambridge, 2019), Exemplaria Classica Vol. 25 (2021), 237-239 
4. Review of L. Swift, Greek Tragedy: themes and contexts (Bloomsbury, 2016), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2017.07.45  
5. Review of C. W. Marshall, The Structure and Performance of Euripides’ Helen (Cambridge, 2014), Classical Journal Vol. 112, No. 2 (December 2016), 240-2
6. Review of J. Billings, F. Budelmann, and F. Macintosh (eds.), Choruses, Ancient and Modern (Oxford, 2013), Classical World Vol. 108, No. 3 (Spring 2015), 443-4
7. Review of G. Harrison and V. Liapis (eds.), Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre (Brill, 2013), Classical World Vol. 108, No. 1 (Fall 2014), 137-8
8. Review of S. Montiglio, Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel (Oxford, 2013), Classical Review Vol. 64, No. 1 (April 2014), 87-89 
9. Review of K. Ormand (ed.), Companion to Sophocles (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.01.24
10. Review of L. A. Swift, The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (Oxford, 2010), Classical World Vol. 106, No. 2 (Winter 2013), 292-3

Classical Reception Studies 

My new book project, Tragedy and Revolución: Refashioning Greek Drama in the Hispanic Caribbean,  examines the political and cultural afterlife of ancient Greek tragedy and comedy in Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. This project has been generously supported by a 2023 British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.   

Publications

Books:

1. La Puerta Electra/The Electra Door: Cuban Rewritings of Greek Tragedy,  co-edited with Y. Cabrera Ortega and K. Eaton (bilingual anthology under contract at Routledge and in progress, generously funded by a 2024 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship)
2. (ed.), The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: Electricidad; Oedipus El Rey; Mojada, Methuen Drama (Bloomsbury): 2020 (hardcover & paperback)   *Winner of the 2020 London Hellenic Prize*  Reviews: P. Fisher, British Theatre Guide; D. Olivas, La Bloga and LA Review of Books; E. Villalobos, Latin American Theatre Review 54.2; L. Kouzeli, Το Βήμα; G. Di Martino, Skenè 7.1; E. Bridges & H. Stead, Greece and Rome 68.2; L. Mcnulty Perez New England Classical Journal 49.1
3. ​​Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage, co-edited with K. P. Nikoloutsos, Bloomsbury: 2020 (paperback: July 2021)                            Reviews: G. F.  Fisher, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2021.04.02; M. F. Nelli, Classics for All; E. Bridges & H. Stead, Greece and Rome 68.2; E. Cueva, Classical Journal 117.4; G. A. Bulman, Bulletin of Latin American Research 41.4; G. Flamerie de Lachapelle, Revue des études anciennes 123.2; T. Boffone, Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 37.2 

Articles and Chapters:

1. ‘Conclusion: Alfaro and the Future of Classics’, forthcoming in The Art and Artistry of Luis Alfaro: Reimagining Classics in the Classroom and the Community, ed. Y. Kim (Routledge)
2. ‘Luis Alfaro’ and ‘Mojada', forthcoming in The Norton Anthology of Drama, 4th edition, eds. J. E. Gainor, S. Garner, and M. Puchner (W. W. Norton & Co., 2025)
3. ‘Philological Reception and the Repeating Odyssey in the Caribbean: Francisco Chofre’s La Odilea’, American Journal of Philology Vol. 143, No. 2 (Summer 2022), 305-334                    *Winner of the AJP Best Article Prize for 2022*
4. ‘Pedro Henríquez Ureña, el Sócrates del Caribe y el Ateneo de la Juventud’, in Pedro Henríquez Ureña ARCHIVOS X, ed. M. D. Mena (Cielonaranja, 2020), 387-420 [= Spanish translation of 'The Caribbean Socrates’, in Classics in Extremis, ed. E. Richardson (Bloomsbury, 2018); see below]
5. ‘Staging the European Classical in 'Latin' America: An Introduction’, in Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage, eds. R. Andújar and K. P. Nikoloutsos (Bloomsbury, 2020), 1-15 (co-authored with Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos) 
6. ‘Distorting the Lysistrata Paradigm in Puerto Rico: Francisco Arriví’s Club de Solteros’, in Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage, eds. R. Andújar and K. P. Nikoloutsos (Bloomsbury, 2020), 131-143
7. Contributing author in N. Mac Sweeney et al., ‘Claiming the Classical: The Greco-Roman world in contemporary political discourse’, CUCD Bulletin 48 (2019), 1-19
8. ‘Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s Hellenism and the American Utopia’, Bulletin of Latin American Research Vol. 37, S1 (November 2018), 168-180
9. ‘Medea: Oxford's first BAME play’​, Didaskalia: The Journal for Ancient Performance 14.6 (2018), 42-48
10. ‘The Caribbean Socrates: Pedro Henríquez Ureña and the Mexican Ateneo de la Juventud’, in Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception, ed. E. Richardson (Bloomsbury, 2018), 101-114 
11. ‘Teaching the Classical Reception Revolution’, CUCD Bulletin 46 (2017) (co-authored with Barbara Goff)
12. ‘Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó’, in The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas, eds. K. Bosher, F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, and P. Rankine (Oxford, 2015), 361-379

Reviews:

1. Review of ​V. Liapis and A. Sidiropoulou (eds.), Adapting Greek Tragedy: Contemporary Contexts for Ancient Texts (Cambridge 2021), Classical Review Vol. 74, No. 1 (April 2024), 64-66
2. Review of  L. Jansen, Borges’ Classics: Global Encounters with the Graeco-Roman Past (Cambridge 2018), International Journal of the Classical Tradition Vol. 29 (2022), 348-51  
3. ​Review of K. Harloe, N. Momigliano, A. Farnoux (eds.), Hellenomania (London, 2018), Classical Review Vol. 69, No. 2 (October 2019), 642-5
4. Review of M. Powers, Diversifying Greek Tragedy on the Contemporary US Stage (Oxford 2018), Classics for All Reading Room

A copy of most of my publications can be accessed at my academia.edu page.