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Dr Justine McConnell<\/strong> is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature (also affiliated with Classics). Her research focuses on the reception of Graeco-Roman epic and drama in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as on African diaspora literature and performance more widely. She is author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939<\/em> (OUP, 2013) and, with Fiona Macintosh, Performing Epic or Telling Tales <\/em>(OUP, forthcoming 2020). She has co-edited four volumes: Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood<\/em> (OUP, 2011); The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas <\/em>(OUP, 2015); Ancient Greek Myth and World Fiction since 1989<\/em> (Bloomsbury, 2016); and Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century<\/em> (OUP, 2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Theatre and Performance Publications<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u201cYou had to wade this deep in blood?\u201d: Violence and Madness in Derek Walcott\u2019s The Odyssey<\/em>\u2019, Intertexts<\/em> 16.1 (Spring 2012), 43-56.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Avant-Garde Epic: Robert Wilson\u2019s Odyssey<\/em> and the Experimental Turn\u2019, Arion <\/em>21.1 (Spring\/Summer 2013), 161-174.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018\u201cWe are still mythical\u201d: Kate Tempest\u2019s Brand New Ancients<\/em>\u2019, Arion <\/em>22.1 (Spring \/ Summer 2014), 195-206.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas<\/em>, co-edited with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine.\u00a0 Oxford: Oxford University Press (2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Shock of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall\u2019s Translation of Greek Drama for the Chicago Stage at Court Theatre\u2019, co-authored with Patrice Rankine.\u00a0 In Bosher, Macintosh, Mc<\/sup>Connell, and Rankine, The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas<\/em> (2015), 764-772.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Staging the Haitian Revolution in London: Britain, the West Indies, and C.L.R. James\u2019 Toussaint Louverture<\/em>\u2019, in Henry Stead and Edith Hall (eds.), Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform<\/em>. London: Bloomsbury (2015), 256-268.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Epic Parodies: Martial Extravaganzas on the Nineteenth-Century Stage\u2019, in Anastasia Bakogianni and Valerie Hope (eds.), War as Spectacle<\/em>.\u00a0 London: Bloomsbury (2015), 257-269.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century<\/em>, co-edited with Fiona Macintosh, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward.\u00a0 Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Performing Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros<\/em> on Stage and Screen\u2019, in Macintosh, Mc<\/sup>Connell, Harrison, and Kenward, Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century<\/em> (2018), 404-417.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Performing Epic or Telling Tales<\/em>, co-authored with Fiona Macintosh.\u00a0 Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018The Contest between Cr\u00e9olit\u00e9<\/em> and Classics in Patrick Chamoiseau\u2019s Stage Plays\u2019, in Rosa And\u00fajar and Konstantinos Nikoloutsos (eds.), Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage<\/em>.\u00a0 Bloomsbury (forthcoming 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Performance-Related Events<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Academic Consultant for the Almeida\u2019s Odyssey<\/em> in 2015: https:\/\/almeida.co.uk\/whats-on\/the-odyssey\/12-nov-2015<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talk at National Theatre with Dr Lucy Jackson: \u2018How Many Stories in the World?\u2019 \u2013 in relation to Annie Baker\u2019s Antipodes<\/em> (November 2019): https:\/\/www.nationaltheatre.org.uk\/shows\/how-many-stories-world<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Justine McConnell is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature (also affiliated with Classics). Her research focuses on the reception of Graeco-Roman epic and drama in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as well as on African diaspora literature and performance more widely. She is author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since … <\/p>\n

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