Biography
Fiona Macintosh is Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception in the Classics Faculty and Senior Research Fellow of St Hilda’s College. She joined the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) as Senior Research Fellow in January 2000 after holding a permanent lectureship in the English Department at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London (1995-1999). She was Reader in Greek and Roman Drama (2008-2014) and promoted to Professor of Classical Reception in 2014. In 2010 she was appointed Director of the APGRD and made a Fellow of St Hilda’s, where she remained in post until her retirement in 2024. She has an Honorary Degree from Université Grenoble Alpes.
She has published widely on the afterlives of Greek and Roman drama and epic in the modern world. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (2005 - with Edith Hall), Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (2009), and Performing Epic or Telling Tales (2020 - with Justine McConnell). She is also the author of two interactive ebooks, Medea, a performance history (2016 - co-curated with Claire Kenward and Tom Wrobel) and Agamemnon, a performance history (2020 - co-curated with Claire Kenward). She has edited the following APGRD volumes: Medea in Performance ( 2000), Dionysus Since 69 (2004), Agamemnon in Performance 458BC-AD 2005 (2005), The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World (2010), Choruses, Ancient and Modern (2012), The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas ( 2015), Epic Performances from the middle ages into the twenty-first century (2018), Heaney and the Classics (2019), Mapping Medea: Revolutions, Transfers 1750-1800 (2023), Matières antiques: actualités de la Grèce ancienne sur les scènes européennes [Théâtre/Public Special Issue] (2025), Poetry and Poetics: Greek and Beyond (2025).
Positions
- Senior Research Fellow in Classical Reception
Subjects
- Classics
