News and Kudos
The Classical Traditions Initiative and the Department of Classics announce an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant for a John E. Sawyer Seminar Series entitled "Theatre after Athens: Reception and Revision of Greek Drama."
Amanda Wrigley, Postdoctoral Fellow
The Department of Classics warmly welcomes Sawyer Seminar postdoctoral fellow for 2009-10, Amanda Wrigley. Amanda comes to Northwestern from the University of Oxford, where from 2001 to 2009 she was Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, a research centre in the Faculty of Classics. Her research focuses on public engagement with Greek drama—as educational subject, cultural phenomenon and dramatic entertainment—in Britain in the 20th century: this encompasses the printed word, non-elite educational institutions, the amateur and semi-professional stage, and especially BBC Radio. Her doctoral thesis with the Open University is entitled ‘Greek drama and epic poetry on BBC Radio in the 1940s and 1950s’. She has also written a book, Performing Greek Drama in and out of Oxford (forthcoming with Exeter University Press, 2009).
Francesca Tataranni, lecturer in Classics, and the department's director of Latin instruction was honored in 2009 when she received one of the highly prized Distinguished Teaching Awards, of which only two are given each year. The Arts and Sciences Alumni Teaching Awards "are reserved for members of the WCAS lecturer faculty who have distinguished themselves through their excellence in undergraduate teaching, as well as through their contributions to curricular innovation and undergraduate life."
