Swollen-foot: The Possibilities of a Disabled Self-Performance of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
By Sydney Hertz, Barnard College
Oedipus’ name, a Latin transliteration of the original Greek Οἰδίπους, translates as “swollen foot'' as a reflection of his clipped ankles. Early in his infancy, he is established as an impaired figure, and it is this impairment that brings upon recognition of the conflict of the play with his limp acting as intentional symbolism (Catenaccio). This paper will explore how a lens of disabled self-performance can transform Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus into a play of representation and reclamation.
The Liberation of Light’: Phaethon, Transcendence, and Replenishment in Aidaa Peerzada’s SHINING
By Emma Pauly, University of California, Los Angeles
By necessity, much of the scholarship surrounding theatrical adaptations of classical text centers finished products with abundant budgets or published for broad consumption. This holds true in the case of theater produced by marginalized authors or which engages with marginalization; in order to reach the academy, there must be a certain degree of industry momentum present.
Euripides’ Medea and the Necessity of Violence
By Elke Nash, University of New Hampshire
Medea seems an endlessly generative figure for scholars and artists alike who desire to think through issues of identity and whose work highlights tensions around, for example, gender dynamics, race and racialization, immigration, and asylum, as well as settler-colonization and its attendant ideologies, mechanisms, and relationships.
Poetics in The Triumph of Horus: Ritual Drama from an Aristotelian Perspective
By Alison Hedges, Independent Scholar
Both authors have been working as non-tenure and tenure-line faculty at large state schools, in states where there is a shortage of Latin teachers. Two issues, in particular, have come to our attention: The lack of communication between K-12 and College teachers; The gap between MA Latin training and K-12 teaching. Latin programs continue to disappear. This means, first, fewer Latin students in colleges; second, fewer Latin teachers, with the result that K-12 programs gradually disappear (our district lost 4 teachers last year alone). It is a downward spiral that must be stopped.