In my academic life, I produce innovative interdisciplinary research focusing on contemporary storytelling practices, spoken-word performance, and the myth-fuelled tragedies of ancient Athens. I’m currently working on a monograph exploring new collaborative platforms for story-led performance, and female storytelling artists as innovators in interdisciplinary creativity. Contemporary Storytelling Performance: Female Artists on Practices, Platforms, Presences is forthcoming from Routledge.

Click on the links below to explore some of my recent publications.

• ‘No Air Left in Your Lungs’: Breathing with Kae Tempest’s The Book of Traps and Lessons. Contemporary Theatre Review 31.1&2 (2021)
• Herakles on Chesil Bank: The Archers, Disavowable Classics, and The Small Back Room. In Alastair Blanshard and Emma Stafford (eds), The Modern Hercules: Images of the Hero from the Nineteenth to the Early Twenty-First Century (Brill, 2020)
• Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor (with Zachary Dunbar, 2018)
• Unfixing Epic: Homeric Epic and Contemporary Performance. In Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison and Claire Kenward (eds), Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2018)
• Greek Tragedy, Agonistic Space, and Contemporary Performance. New Theatre Quarterly 34.2 (2018)
• Athens: A Work-in-Progress. Kritika Kultura 30/31 (2018)
• ‘It Happens in Ballads’: Scotland, Utopia and Traditional Song in The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. In Simon McKerrell and Gary West (eds), Understanding Scotland Musically: Folk, Tradition and Policy (Routledge, 2018)
• Staging a Transforming Great Britain: Tamlane, The Social Turn, and the 2014 Referendum. In Laura Monros-Gaspar (ed.), Re-Thinking Literary Identities: Great Britain, Europe and Beyond (Publicacions De La Universitat De València, 2017)
• Bringing the Wild and the Barbaric into the Urban Space of the Theatre. Programme essay for Knives in Hens (David Harrower, dir. Yael Farber) at The Donmar Warehouse (2017)
• Eating Ovid: An Experiment in Staging Shakespeare’s Classical Sources, Women’s Classical Committee UK blog (2016)
• Grounded, Heracles and the Gorgon’s Gaze, Arion 23.1 (2015)
• Fat Man and Orpheus (review), Didaskalia 12.10 (2015)
• Ercles’ Vein: Heracles as Bottom in Ted Hughes’ Alcestis , Classical Receptions Journal 6.3 (2014) [Please note: this is a draft version of the article, and may differ slightly from the final published text]
• Speech, Silence and Epic Performance: Alice Oswald’s Memorial, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies 8 (2013)
• The Paper Cinema’s Odyssey and The Factory, The Odyssey (review), Didaskalia 10.11 (2013)
• An Introduction to the Tragic Body, APGRD website (2012)
• Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural HIstory and Critical Practice (with Edith Hall, 2010)
• Poetic Language and Corporeality in Translations of Greek Tragedy, New Theatre Quarterly 24.1 (with David Wiles, 2008)

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