Paul Monaghan

Title: Contract Instructor
Email: p.monaghan@uwinnipeg.ca

Degrees:

BA (Hons): Australian National University

MA: The University of Melbourne

PhD: The University of Melbourne

Affiliations:

Canadian Association for Theatre Research

The Classical Association of Canada

The Society for Classical Studies

Australasian Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies Association

Research Interests:

Greek and Roman theatre in performance (in antiquity, modernism & contemporary theatre); the history of Greek tragedy in Australia; Greek and Roman literature; the Platonic dialogues as drama; the reception of the ancient world in modern popular media; theatre history; contemporary performance and dramaturgical practices; practice-led research

Publications:

Recent Publications:

2023. “Pre- and Post-Human(-ist) Confluences in Greek Tragedy: The Complete Eradication of the Live Actor from the Tragic Stage.” Greek Tragedy and the Digital. Ed. George Rodosthenous & Angeliki Poulou. Methuen Drama, 2023, pp.199-212.

2016. Close Relations: Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre. Edited by Paul Monaghan and Jane Montgomery Griffiths eds. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

2016. “Introduction: Space, Theatre and Close Relations.” In Paul Monaghan and Jane Montgomery Griffiths, eds. Close Relations: Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp.1-35.

2016. “Tragedy Without Character: Dood Paard’s Postdramatic ‘Cool’”. In Paul Monaghan and Jane Montgomery Griffiths, eds. Close Relations: Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016, pp.197-225.

2016. “Greek Drama in Australia”. In Betine van Zyl Smit (ed), The Reception of Greek Drama (Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception series). Wiley, 2016, pp.422-45.

2016. “‘A Thing both Cool and Fiery’: Aeschylus as Postdramatic Analogue”. In Stratos E. Constantinidis and Bruce Heiden, eds. The Tragedies of Aeschylus: The Cultural Divide and the Trauma of Adaptation. Brill, 2016, pp.250-79.

2015. “Aristocratic Archaeology and Greco-Roman Roots”. In Judith Chaffee and Olly Crick, eds. The Routledge Companion to Commedia Dell’ Arte. Routledge, pp.195-206.

2014. “Embodied Re-imaginings: Greek Tragedy, Nietzsche & German Expressionist Theatre”. In Maryrose Casey, ed. Embodying Transformation: transcultural and transnational in performance. Monash University Press, 2014, pp.32-50.

2013. “Peladan’s Symbolist Prométhéide and the Transformation of the World in fin de siècle Paris”. In Dialogues with the Past, vol. 2: Reception Theory and Practise, ed. Anastasia Backogianni. The Institute of Classical Studies, 2013, pp.401-14.