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Fiona Macintosh

{{short description|Classics professor at Oxford University}}

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Fiona Macintosh is professor of classical reception at the University of Oxford, director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, curator of the Ioannou Centre, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-fiona-macintosh|title=Professor Fiona Macintosh {{!}} Faculty of Classics|website=www.classics.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}}

Career

Macintosh gained her BA in English and Greek civilisation at the University of Leeds in 1980. She remained at Leeds for her MA in English literature, awarded in 1981. Macintosh moved to King's College, London for her PhD in classics and comparative literature, which was awarded in 1990.

Macintosh was a lecturer in English at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London until 2000, when she moved to Oxford as senior research fellow at the APGRD. She was reader in Greek and Roman drama from 2008 to 2014, when she became professor of classical reception. Macintosh became the director of the APGRD in January 2010.{{Cite web|url=http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about-us/people|title=People {{!}} APGRD|website=www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-17}}{{Cite web|url=https://impact.ref.ac.uk/CaseStudies/CaseStudy.aspx?Id=4874|title=REF Case study search|website=impact.ref.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}}

Macintosh's research focuses on the adaptation of Greek plays for the modern theatre and the reception of Greek tragedy from the Enlightenment to the present day. She has taken a particular interest in the adaptation of Greek tragedy for the Irish stage and has interviewed Frank McGuinness on the subject{{Cite web|url=https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/frank-mcguinness-conversation-fiona-macintosh|title=Frank McGuinness in conversation with Fiona Macintosh {{!}} University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio and Video Lectures|website=podcasts.ox.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}} and discussed with Wayne Jordan his adaptation of Oedipus for the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, in 2015.{{Cite web|url=https://interestingtalks.in/Oxford/event/oedipus-director-wayne-jordan-conversation/|title=On Oedipus: Director Wayne Jordan in conversation - Interesting Talks Oxford|website=interestingtalks.in|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-16}} Macintosh has also researched adaptations of Antigone for the Irish stage.{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586196.001.0001/acprof-9780199586196-chapter-4 |last=Macintosh |first=Fiona |editor1-last=Mee |editor1-first=Erin B. |editor2-last=Foley |editor2-first=Helene P. |editor2-link=Helene P. Foley |title=Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage |publisher=Oxford University Press |date=2011 |pages=90–106 |chapter=Chapter 4: Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead |doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199586196.001.0001 |isbn=9780199586196}}

Macintosh frequently appears on discussion panels and at public events to examine the re-staging of Greek drama today, such as at the York Festival of Ideas in 2018,{{Cite news|url=http://yorkfestivalofideas.com/2018/talks/restaging-greek-tragedy-today/|title=Re-staging Greek Tragedy Today - York Festival of Ideas|work=York Festival of Ideas|access-date=2018-08-16|language=EN}} speaking at the SAS in 2016,{{Cite news|url=https://www.sas.ac.uk/videos-and-podcasts/culture-language-and-literature/greek-tragedy-modern-world-dr-fiona-macintosh|title=Greek Tragedy in the Modern World – Dr. Fiona MacIntosh|date=2016-09-22|work=School of Advanced Study|access-date=2018-08-16|language=en}} debating at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2015,{{Cite web|url=https://www.rsc.org.uk/events/past-debates|title=Past debates at the RSC {{!}} Royal Shakespeare Company|website=www.rsc.org.uk|access-date=2018-08-16}} the Oxford Literary Festival in 2014.{{Cite web|url=http://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2014/march-29/dance-ancient-and-modern|title=Dance: Ancient and Modern - 29 Mar 2014 - Oxford Literary Festival|website=oxfordliteraryfestival.org|access-date=2018-08-16}}

Macintosh was invited to deliver the keynote lecture "From hearth to Hades: adventures with Medea and ballet d'action" at the international symposium "Placing Medea: Transfer, Spatiality, and Gender in Europe 1750−1800", at Uppsala University on April 25, 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.su.se/ike/english/about-us/events/keynote-fiona-macintosh-1.374973|title=Keynote – Fiona Macintosh - Department of Culture and Aesthetics|last=Lindström|first=Joanna Bong|website=www.su.se|language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.kalendarium.uu.se/event/?eventId=31324|title=Fiona Macintosh: "From hearth to Hades"|author=Uppsala University|date=2018-04-25|website=www.kalendarium.uu.se|language=sv|access-date=2018-08-16}}

Macintosh will deliver the 2018–19 Sigmund H. Danziger Jr. Memorial Lecture in the Humanities on 17 May 2019 at the University of Chicago.{{Cite web|url=https://classics.uchicago.edu/news|title=Latest News {{!}} Department of Classics|website=classics.uchicago.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-08-16}}

Macintosh has been at the forefront of exploring the potential of presenting research in interactive multimedia ebooks, publishing performance histories that showcase digitised archival material and newly commissioned films, art, audio, and audio-visual material. The earliest fruit of this exploration has been the e-book [http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/medea-performance-history-apgrd-multimedia-ebooks Medea, a performance history], published by the APGRD in 2016. A second e-book, dedicated to the performance history of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, is forthcoming (2019).{{Citation|last=Society for Classical Studies|title=SCS Annual Meeting (2017): Presidential Panel - Fiona MacIntosh|date=2017-05-08|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPznWTAAJYQ|access-date=2018-08-17}}

Selected publications

  • Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994){{Cite journal|last=Lloyd|first=Michael|date=1996|title=Review of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama|journal=Classics Ireland|volume=3|pages=208–215|doi=10.2307/25528300|jstor=25528300}}{{Cite journal|last=Anderson|first=Michael|date=1995|title=Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama. By Fiona Macintosh. Cork: Cork University Press, 1994. Pp. xx + 212. £30.|journal=Theatre Research International|language=en|volume=20|issue=3|pages=282|doi=10.1017/S0307883300008725|s2cid=193181499 |issn=1474-0672}}
  • Medea in Performance (2000)
  • Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (Cambridge University Press, 2009)
  • with Edith Hall Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660–1914 (Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • with Claire Kenward and Tom Wrobel [http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/medea-performance-history-apgrd-multimedia-ebooks Medea, a performance history] (APGRD 2016), an interactive/multimedia ebook
  • ed. with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, Claire Kenward Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (Oxford University Press, 2018)

References

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External links

  • [https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/classics/documents/media/professor_fiona_macintosh_publications.pdf Full publication list]

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