In my academic life, I produce innovative interdisciplinary research focusing on the myth-fuelled tragedies of Athens, ancient and modern performances of epic, and the traditional arts in contemporary theatre-making.

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

• Stephe Harrop on Sherry, a Caravan and a Scottish Bog, in conversation with Alys Torrance of Story Jam (2016)
• 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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