Post-Doc, Media Arts and Design
Research Associate, Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television (three-year AHRC project)
About
Amanda Wrigley is a cultural historian working, for the most part, on the interlinked histories of British theatre, radio and television with a specific focus on the drama of ancient Greece on the one hand and educational uses of theatre and mass media on the other.
At the University of Westminster she is working alongside John Wyver on the three-year AHRC-funded project ‘Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television’. She is currently engaged on two case studies for this project: Greek plays on British television and the use of theatre plays in educational television. Work-in-progress articles on these topics appear regularly on the Screen Plays blog at http://screenplaystv.wordpress.com, and a monograph and a number of journal articles will follow. She is currently working with the BFI on a season of televised Greek plays scheduled for June 2012.
Her broader research specialism is the reception of ancient Greek drama and Homeric epic, and engagements with ideas of ancient Greece more generally, in Britain from the mid-19th century to the 1970s through such media as radio and television broadcasts, theatre (especially amateur and touring performance), paperback translations and non-élite educational institutions and cultural projects.
Her books include <i>Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greek Culture on BBC Radio, 1920s-1960s</i> (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2013) and Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players (University of Exeter Press, 2011). She is lead co-editor of Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays, which prints the scripts, with introductions, of eleven of MacNeice’s feature programmes for BBC Radio (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2013). In 2011 she guest edited a double special issue of the journal Comparative Drama on the topic of Translation, Performance, and Reception of Greek Drama, 1900-1960: International Dialogues and has served as co-editor for two earlier volumes on modern performative and literary engagements with Greek drama.
Recent journal articles include ‘A Wartime Radio Odyssey: Edward Sackville-West and Benjamin Britten’s The Rescue (1943)’, The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media 8.2 (2010), which won the Philadelphia Constantinidis Essay in Critical Theory Award 2010. Forthcoming essays in books include: ‘The “Democratic Turns” Involved in Practising Classical Reception Studies in the Round: What Can We Learn from the Case of BBC Radio?’, in Lorna Hardwick and Stephen Harrison (eds), The Democratic Turn in Classical Reception Studies and ‘Aristophanes at the BBC, 1940s-1960s’, in Wolfgang Haase (ed.), Ancient Comedy and Reception.
Before joining the University of Westminster in 2011, she was Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics, Northwestern University, Illinois (2009-10) and AHRC-funded Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford (2001-09). Alongside her post at Oxford she studied for her doctorate part-time at the Open University (awarded 2009).
See http://amandawrigley.wordpress.com for up-to-date details of forthcoming talks and publications.
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