Lucy Jackson is Associate Professor in Classics (Greek Literature) at Durham University. She joined the department of Classics and Ancient History in Durham in 2019 after teaching posts at King’s College London and Balliol College, Oxford, and a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at King’s College London. She acted as an academic consultant for the Medea at the National Theatre, London (2014), the Oresteia at Shakespeare’s Globe (2015), the Iliad at the British Museum and Almeida Theatre (2015), Kill at the Royal Court Theatre (2019), and the Odyssey at the National Theatre (2023). Her research focuses on ancient performance culture, in particular choral song and dance performances, and the ways in which Greek drama has been revived, re-formed, and reperformed in the early modern and contemporary worlds.
Her first monograph, The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE. Presence and Representation was published in 2020 by Oxford University Press. She has since published on the Latin translations and versions of Greek drama created and performed in sixteenth-century Europe, and was a co-editor, together with Malika Bastin-Hammou, Giovanna Di Martino, and Cécile Dudouyt, of Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe. Theory and Practice 1450-1600 (2023, De Gruyter).