Fiona Macintosh is Emeritus Professor of Classical Reception, Senior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She joined the APGRD as Senior Research Fellow in January 2000 after holding a permanent lectureship in English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London (1995-1999). She was Reader in Greek and Roman Drama (2008-2014) and from 2010 to 2024 she was the Director of the APGRD.
She is the author of Dying Acts (Cork 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (Oxford 2005 – with Edith Hall), Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge 2009), and Performing Epic or telling tales (Oxford 2019 - with Justine McConnell). She has edited numerous 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), Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses (2019) and Mapping Medea Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800 (2023). She is also co-curator of the APGRD’s two interactive/multimedia eBooks, Medea, a performance history (2016) and Agamemnon, a performance history (2020). For further publications, see Fiona Macintosh's full publications >>