Staff profile

Doctoral Supervision

I'm interested in working with doctoral researchers on any of the following topics:

• ancient Greek tragedy, satyr play and comedy in the Classical period (c.500 - 323 BCE) and their contexts 
• Plato, Aristotle, and theories of performance
• musical and non-dramatic performance in the ancient Mediterranean
• the reception of Greek drama in the early modern period
• the reception of Greek drama in the 20th and 21st centuries

• Greek tragedy
• Greek drama in the Classical period (c.500-323 BCE)
• Ancient Greek choral performance
• Ancient Greek literature
• Classical Receptions of the 21st century
• Theatre history

Authored book

• Jackson, L. C. (2019). The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE. Presence and Representation. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198844532.001.0001

Book review

• Jackson, L. C. (online). The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World. The Journal of Hellenic Studies, 296-7
• Jackson, L. C. (online). The Brill Companions to the Reception of Aeschylus and Sophocles
• Jackson, L. C. (online). Dancing in the Streets. A History of Collective Joy

Chapter in book

• Jackson, L. The evidence for Greek drama. In D. Stuttard (Ed.), Looking at Greek Drama. Bloomsbury
• Jackson, L. C. (2023). Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). In G. Di Martino, C. Dudouyt, & L. C. Jackson (Eds.), Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries) (207-226). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719185-012
• Crawforth, H., & Jackson, L. C. (2019). Greek Tragedy on the University Stage: Buchanan and Euripides. In K. Poole, & L. Shohet (Eds.), Gathering force : early modern British literature in transition, 1557–1623 (340-355). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108303774
• Jackson, L. C. (2018). Knowledge Exchange and Classical Outreach. In M. Musié, A. Holmes-Henderson, S. Hunt, & E. Searle (Eds.), Forward with Classics Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (33-36). Bloomsbury
• Jackson, L. C. (2016). Greater than logos? Kinaesthetic Empathy and the Chorus in Plato’s Laws. In E. Sanders, & M. Johncock (Eds.), Emotion and persuasion in classical antiquity (147-161). Franz Steiner Verlag

Journal Article

• Jackson, L. (2023). Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). Translation and Literature, 32(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2023.0546
• Jackson, L. C. (2020). Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama. Translation and Literature, 29(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0410
• Jackson, L. C. (2020). Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 3, 43-61. https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.vi3.9256