Members and contributors

I am Associate Professor in German Studies, and my research focuses on German literature, women’s writing and gender studies and comparative literature. Two research projects focus on myth and myth reception from the 18th-21st century, with a particular focus on the myth of Medea, and the reception of Classical Antiquity in contemporary cultures and societies.

I convene the module Mythology in German Literature: Medea (see the related studies page for more details), which looks closely at how the myth is used, changed and reinvented in German texts written between 1926 and 1998. I have co-edited Unbinding Medea: interdisciplinary approaches to a classical myth from antiquity to the 21st century (2010) with Anne Simon.

I am Assistant Professor in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama. I have done work on modern productions of classic tragedy (partly in relation to the NT Live project, who broadcasted Medea and Phaedra).

I am writing on and working with theatre company Cheek by Jowl, looking at their productions of Philoctetes (1988), Antigone (1999), and Racine's Andromache (1985 and 2007-9).

I am Emeritus Professor of Greek. My main speciality is ancient Greek drama, both tragedy and comedy; I have worked on all the major dramatists and many minor ones, and produced (alone or in collaboration) complete editions of 19 fully (or almost fully) preserved and 13 fragmentary plays.

I have also led a major team research project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust) on the Oath in Archaic and Classical Greece, which produced a database of all references to oaths in Greek literary and inscriptional texts down to 322 BC, followed by a two-volume study of the subject. I am now editing an Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy, and preparing an edition of Aeschylus' tragedy The Suppliants. I am a contributor to the Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama.

I am Assistant Professor in Classics, having joined the University in February 2014. My main area of research is Ancient Greek literature and religion, more specifically hymns, and in particular the Homeric Hymns.

I have co-written a book with David Raeburn about one of Aeschylus’ tragedies, The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Commentary for Students, published by OUP. In 2013, I produced the Cambridge Greek Play.

Mohammad Almohanna obtained his PhD, Carnivalesque in Satyr Play (supervised by Alan Sommerstein), from the University of Nottingham in 2012. He is currently Assistant Professor at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Kuwait.

He returned to Nottingham in 2014 to give a paper, Antarah Ibn Shaddãd: Heracles of Arabia at the Classical Association AGM. He is a contributor to the Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy.

Emiliano Buis studied in Nottingham in 2006; his PhD, Comic Justice: Uses and Abuses of Athenian Law in Aristophanes’ comedies, 427-414 (University of Buenos Aires, 2009), was co-supervised by Alan Sommerstein. Having qualified in both Classics and Law, he has always worked from an interdisciplinary perspective.

He is Assistant Professor in Greek at the University of Buenos Aires, a researcher at the National Council for Science and Technology (CONICET) in Greek Philology, and currently supervising a research project on normativity in classical Athens in Argentina. He also holds a tenured position at the Law School at Buenos Aires. He has held fellowships at the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC and from the Alexander Onassis Foundation in Athens. He is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy and the Handbook to the Reception of Greek Tragedy.

Judith Fletcher was a regular visiting scholar at the University between 2004 and 2006.  She was a key member of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Oaths Project, co-editing Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society (2007) with Alan Sommerstein and contributing to Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014). See our publications page for more details.

She is Professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University (Waterloo, Ontario). Her research on Greek Drama is concerned with the intersections of gender, law and religion in the context of the Athenian democracy; she is currently working on a book entitled Engendering Law in Ancient Greek Drama, funded by grants from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

Kyriaki Konstantinidou obtained her PhD, Legousa tēn kakēn aran: cursing in Aeschylus’ Oresteia (supervised by Alan Sommerstein), from the University of Nottingham in 2009 as part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded Oaths Project.

She is currently Onassis Foundation Teaching Fellow at Bosphorus University, Istanbul. Her research interests are in Archaic and Classical Greek Literature and Culture, Ancient Greek Religion and Literary Texts, and Greek Drama. She contributed the chapter “Oath and curse” to Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (Sommerstein and Torrance, 2014). She is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy. See our publications page for more details.

Gunther Martin was postdoctoral Advanced Research Fellow at Nottingham in 2010-2011. He was previously SNSF fellow at the Institute for Classical Philology, University of Bern, and is now SNSF professor at the University of Zurich. He is interested in communication conventions in Greek drama and Greek oratory.

Sarah Miles obtained her PhD, Strattis, Comedy and Tragedy (supervised by Alan Sommerstein), from the University of Nottingham in 2009. She is currently Lecturer in Classics and her interests include Greek drama and paratragedy (5th–3rd centuries BCE); Greek cultural history; the popularisation of Greek drama in the ancient world; Greek and Roman comic genres and reception (esp. in animation).

Sarah returned to Nottingham in 2014 to contribute to the panel marking Alan Sommerstein’s retirement, Talking about Laughter: Responses to Aristophanes and Alan Sommerstein, at the Classical Association AGM.

She is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy and the Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama (see our publications page), and is working on a monograph on Greek Tragedy and its Reception in the Fragments of Old Comedy.

Cressida Ryan obtained her PhD, Eighteenth-century responses to Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus (supervised by Judith Mossman), from the University of Nottingham in 2010. She is currently Instructor in New Testament Greek in the Theology Faculty at the University of Oxford. She is working on Early Modern Latin drama, including Latin editions and translations of Greek tragedy, and Jesuit Neo-Latin drama, as well as on the relationship between Greek tragedy and musical theatre, particularly opera.

Cressida returned to Nottingham in 2014 to give a paper entitled: From Alexander to Xerxes, Triumphant Tragedy and Tragic Triumph on the British Stage at the Classical Association AGM.

Isabelle Torrance was post-doctoral fellow on the Leverhulme Trust-funded Oath Project at the University of Nottingham from 2004 to 2007, which culminated in the publication of Oaths and Swearing in Ancient Greece (2014), co-edited with Alan Sommerstein. Before that she obtained her PhD, on Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians (supervised by Judith Mossman), from Trinity College Dublin in 2004.

She was previously Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame, and is now Associate Professor, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark. She is working on Irish adaptations of Greek tragedy. She is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy.

Rosie Wyles was Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham in 2009-2011. Before that she studied Classics at Oxford, and obtained her PhD on the role of costume in the ancient performance reception of Euripides’ Telephus, Heracles and Andromeda from the University of London.

She has been involved with the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Oxford since 2004. While at Nottingham, she co-edited The Pronomos Vase and its Context (2010) with Oliver Taplin and produced a monograph, Costume in Greek Tragedy (2011). She is currently Lecturer in Classical Literature and History at the University of Kent. She is a contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Greek Comedy and the Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama.