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Dr Lucy Jackson

Associate Professor


Affiliations
Affiliation
Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History
Member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies

Biography

Doctoral Supervision

I'm interested in working with doctoral researchers on any of the following topics:

  • ancient Greek tragedy, satyr play and comedy in the Classical period (c.500 - 323 BCE) and their contexts 
  • Plato, Aristotle, and theories of performance
  • musical and non-dramatic performance in the ancient Mediterranean
  • the reception of Greek drama in the early modern period
  • the reception of Greek drama in the 20th and 21st centuries

Research interests

  • Greek tragedy
  • Greek drama in the Classical period (c.500-323 BCE)
  • Ancient Greek choral performance
  • Ancient Greek literature
  • Classical Receptions of the 21st century
  • Theatre history

Publications

Authored book

Book review

Chapter in book

  • The evidence for Greek drama
    Jackson, L. (n.d.). The evidence for Greek drama. In D. Stuttard (Ed.), Looking at Greek Drama [Contracted by publisher]. Bloomsbury.
  • Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548)
    Jackson, L. C. (2023). Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). In G. Di Martino, C. Dudouyt, & L. C. Jackson (Eds.), Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries) (pp. 207-226). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719185-012
  • Greek Tragedy on the University Stage: Buchanan and Euripides
    Crawforth, H., & Jackson, L. C. (2019). Greek Tragedy on the University Stage: Buchanan and Euripides. In K. Poole & L. Shohet (Eds.), Gathering force : early modern British literature in transition, 1557–1623. (pp. 340-355). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303774
  • Knowledge Exchange and Classical Outreach
    Jackson, L. C. (2018). Knowledge Exchange and Classical Outreach. In M. Musié, A. Holmes-Henderson, S. Hunt, & E. Searle (Eds.), Forward with Classics Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (pp. 33-36). Bloomsbury.
  • Greater than logos? Kinaesthetic Empathy and the Chorus in Plato’s Laws
    Jackson, L. C. (2016). Greater than logos? Kinaesthetic Empathy and the Chorus in Plato’s Laws. In E. Sanders & M. Johncock (Eds.), Emotion and persuasion in classical antiquity. (pp. 147-161). Franz Steiner Verlag.

Journal Article

Supervision students