Cohort Year:
2021
Research Interests:
Greek tragedy and epic, ancient performance, metatheater, theatrical costume, embodiment, materiality, silence, metaphor, spatiality
Rebecca received her BA from Swarthmore College in 2021 with high honors in Ancient Greek and Latin, as well as a minor in Religion. Her current interests include the ancient performance and audience experience of Greek drama, staging and spatiality, silence and speech in tragedy, costume and the manipulation of garments on stage and in narrative, and materiality and embodiment. Her dissertation focuses on metatheater, the body, and the deconstruction of the dramatic character in Greek tragedy, and examines audiences' awareness and playwrights' manipulation of conventions and practicalities like the limited number of speaking actors and the doubling of multiple roles by a single actor.