Giovanna Di Martino
Giovanna completed her undergraduate degree and Master’s in Classics at the State University of Milan. She wrote her thesis on the reception of the Seven Against Thebes in the United States, for which she spent a semester at the University of Notre Dame under the supervision of Prof. Isabelle Torrance. She is currently on her first year of DPhil at the University of Oxford, with a project on the reception of Aeschylus in Italy from the Sixteenth Century onwards.
Mara Gold
Mara is a DPhil student in Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, working on women’s reception of the ancient world and its influence on gender and sexuality during the late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries. Originally from New Zealand, she gained her BA in Classics at Victoria University Wellington before moving to the UK to undertake postgraduate studies in Advanced Theatre Practice (RCSSD), Archaeology (UCL) and History (Oxford) as well as working in the arts and heritage sector. Additional interests include classical reception in fantasy/science fiction, the history of archaeology, collaborative devised theatre, community arts projects and writing for the stage.
Sarah Grunnah
Sarah holds an MFA in Dramaturgy from the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and a BA in English from the University of North Carolina (Charlotte). She has also worked as a dramaturg in the literary departments and on productions in several U.S. theatres, including SoHo Rep in New York, Hartford Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, and Georgia Shakespeare. At present, Sarah is a first-year DPhil student in Spanish at the University of Oxford where she is writing on the representation and construction of gender in contemporary, English-language performances of seventeenth-century Spanish drama.
Peter Swallow
Peter completed his undergrad in Classics at the University of St Andrews before moving to Oxford for his MSt. He is currently working on his PhD at King’s College, London under the supervision of Prof. Edith Hall, looking into the Victorian reception of Aristophanes. Other interests include adaptation theory, modern receptions of Greek drama, and receptions of ancient sexuality and gender.
AMPRAW 2016 