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Giovanna Di Martino

Former doctoral student
Research Associate
A photo of Giovanna, smiling, standing in front of a mountain in the sunshine.
Dr Giovanna Di Martino is Leventis Research Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature at University College London. Her main research areas are the translation and performance of ancient Greek and Roman dramas in the early modern period, in Europe and beyond. She is involved in several ongoing practice-research projects focused on the translation of ancient Greek drama and its adaptations, which are part of the APGRD research project Translating Ancient Drama.
Selected publications

She has recently co-edited a volume for De Gruyter: Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th-16th Centuries) and two special issues for Skenè: Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (June and December 2024). She has also published several journal articles on the translation of Greek and Latin texts throughout history. She co-leads the APGRD research project Performing Classics under Fascism, for which she co-edited two special issues for CRJ and Brill's Fascism. She is the author of the monograph Translating and Adapting Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes in the United States (Skenè, 2020) and is currently working on her second monograph for OUP on Aeschylus’ Reception: Translation, Adaptation and Performance.