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Claire Kenward

APGRD team
Archivist; Researcher
A photograph of a woman with a shaved head

Dr Claire Kenward began working for the APGRD in 2013 as an early career associate researching the influence of ancient epics on medieval and early modern drama. In 2014 Claire become the APGRD Archivist. She is responsible for the archive collections and the APGRD's digital development strategy. She is Research Project Manger on the APGRD’s Digital Ancient Theatre project and is co-author, co-curator, and designer of the APGRD’s two interactive/multimedia ebooks on the performance histories of Medea (2016) and Agamemnon (2020). Claire has curated a number of exhibitions at Oxford's Faculty of Classics and at St Hilda's JdP Music Building. 

Selected publications
  • ‘The Reception of Greek Drama in Early Modern England’ in A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama (ed. B. van Zyl Smit; Wiley Blackwell, 2016)
  • ‘Sights to make an Alexander? Reading Homer on the early modern stage’ in Homer and Greek Tragedy in Early Modern England’s Theatres (CRJ, Special Ed 9.1, 2017)
  • ‘‘Of arms and the man’: Thersites in Early Modern English Drama’ in Epic Performances, from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (eds. F. Macintosh, J. McConnell, S. Harrison and C. Kenward; OUP, 2018)
  • ‘Time Travel and Self-Reflexivity in Receptions of Homer’s Iliad’ in Once and Future Antiquities in Science Fiction and Fantasy (eds. B. M. Rogers and B. E. Stevens; Bloomsbury, 2019)
  • ‘Interactive eBooks for the performance archive’ with Fiona Macintosh in ARC June 2020.
  • For the full list plus details of exhibitions, see Claire Kenward's publications