Post-docs and Graduates

Joshua Billings

Post-doctoral Associate
Joshua Billings is currently a Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge. His research focuses on tragedy and intellectual history in the classical tradition, centering on ancient Greece and modern Germany. His dissertation and current book project, provisionally entitled A Genealogy of the Tragic, looks at the theory of tragedy in Germany around 1800. He is co-editing two volumes of essays: one on the ancient chorus and its reception (with Fiona Macintosh and Felix Budelmann), and one on philosophical appropriations of tragedy (with Miriam Leonard).

Katie Billotte

Visiting Graduate Associate (Royal Holloway)
Katie Billotte is completing her thesis on French influences in the reception of Greek and Roman tragedy in contemporary Latin America (Supervisor: Edith Hall).

Stephe Harrop

Post-doctoral Associate
Stephe Harrop completed her practice-based thesis 'The Body in Translation: The Relationship between Text and Movement in Modern Poetic Versions of Greek Tragedy' at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2007 (supervisor: David Wiles). She is co-editor (with Edith Hall) of Theorising Performance (Duckworth, 2010), and currently teaches at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and Rose Bruford College.

Eleftheria Ioannidou

Post-doctoral Associate
Eleftheria Ioannidou completed her thesis in 2008 on adaptations of Greek tragedy from 1970 (supervisor: Fiona Macintosh). She has a chapter in Theorising Performance (Duckworth, 2010), and from March 2010 she has been a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow based at the Freie Universität Berlin.

Simon Perris

Post-doctoral Associate
Simon Perris completed his thesis in 2008 on the post-war literary reception of The Bacchae in English (supervisor: Oliver Taplin). He has a chapter in Theorising Performance (Duckworth, 2010), and he is currently teaching at the University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Kathleen Riley

Post-doctoral Associate
Kathleen Riley completed her thesis in 2004 on 'Reasoning Madness: The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Heracles' (supervisors: Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh). It has been published as The Reception and Performance of Euripides’  Herakles: Reasoning Madness (Oxford University Press, 2008). She is author of the authorized biography Nigel Hawthorne on Stage (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2004) and Fred and Adele Astaire: Nothing Like Them Since The Flood (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). From 2007 to 2009 she was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics and Junior Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Helen Slaney

Graduate Associate
Helen currently holds the Joanna Randall McIver Junior Research Fellowship at St Hilda's College. She is working on the performance reception of Senecan tragedy, and tracing the development of the Senecan aesthetic in modern drama (supervisor: Fiona Macintosh).

Henry Stead

Post-doctoral Associate
Henry Stead is currently working on the APGRD's Leverhulme-funded 'Performing Ancient Epic' project as a Researcher. He was the first holder of the joint Open University/University of Oxford (St Hilda's College) Michael Comber PhD Studentship in the Reception of the Classical World. His doctoral thesis (2012) was entitled 'A Cockney Catullus' and in it he investigated the British reception of the Roman poet Catullus in the Romantic Era.

Avery Willis

Post-doctoral Associate
Avery Willis completed her thesis in 2005: 'Euripides' Trojan Women: A 20th-Century War Play in Performance' (supervisor: Oliver Taplin). Since finishing her doctorate, Avery has been writing and working professionally in the theatre with the director, Peter Sellars.

Amanda Wrigley

Post-doctoral Associate
Amanda Wrigley completed her thesis with the Open University in 2009 on 'Engagements with Greek Drama and Homeric Epic on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s' (supervisors: Lorna Hardwick, Oliver Taplin). Amanda was Researcher at the APGRD and editor of the APGRD database of modern performances of ancient drama from 2001 to 2009. She is co-editor of Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium (Oxford University Press, 2004), and Aristophanes in Performance: Peace, Birds and Frogs, 421 BC-AD 2007 (Legenda, 2007). Her book Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players was published by Exeter University Press. She was Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Northwestern 2009-2010 and is currently a research associate at the University of Westminster.

Rosie Wyles

Post-doctoral Associate
Rosie Wyles completed her thesis on 'The stage life of costume in Euripides’ TelephusHeracles and Andromeda; an aspect of ancient performance reception' at Royal Holloway, University of London, in 2007 (supervisor: Edith Hall). Her doctorate formed a part of the APGRD’s project to investigate the performance reception of ancient drama within Graeco-Roman antiquity. Rosie is currently Early Career Fellow in Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has contributed chapters to Aristophanes in Performance (Legenda, 2007) and Theorising Performance (Duckworth, 2010) and she is co-editor with Edith Hall of New Directions in Ancient Pantomime (Oxford University Press, 2008) and with Oliver Taplin of Pronomos: His Vase and its World (Oxford University Press, 2010).

Alessandra Zanobi

Post-doctoral Associate
Alessandra Zanobi completed her thesis in 2008 on 'Seneca's Tragedies and the Aesthetics of Pantomime' at the University of Durham (supervisor: Edith Hall). She has a chapter on Seneca and ancient pantomime in New Directions in Ancient Pantomime (Oxford University Press, 2008) and one on Martha Graham and Pina Bausch in The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World (Oxford University Press, 2010).