I came to the Open University in 2009 to take up a British Academy funded Post-doctoral Research Associate post. I worked with Professor Lorna Hardwick on the Reception of Classical Texts project. Follow this link for more information on the project. I have published my research in a series of articles exploring aspects of the reception of Greek Drama in the modern world. My first academic monograph is entitled Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the Tragic Heroine’s Reception (Institute of Classical Studies 2011). I am currently working on a second monograph focusing on the reception of the tragic heroine in film and television.
My research specialty is Greek Literature, in particular tragedy, and its reception in the mediums of theatre, the visual arts, opera, poetry and cinema (18th to twenty first centuries). I also have a particular interest in the reception of classical culture in modern Greece.
My role at the Open University also involves organising a series of annual graduate workshops on behalf of the Classical Reception Studies Network (CRSN). During this academic year I am acting as the network’s administrator. In addition I am an Associate Editor of the New Voices in Classical Reception Studies annual e-journal published by the Open University and specially developed for early career researchers.
I also hold an Honorary Research Fellowship from the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London.
Contact: a.bakogianni@open.ac.uk
Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the Tragic Heroine’s Reception, The Institute of Classical Studies (London: 2011)
‘Voices of resistance: Michael Cacoyannis’ The Trojan Women (1971)’, The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 52 (2009) 45-68
‘The taming of a tragic heroine: Electra in eighteenth-century art’, IJCT 16.1 (March 2009) 19-57
‘Electra in Sylvia Plath’s poetry: a case of identification’, in Living Classics. Greece and Rome in contemporary poetry in English, ed. S. J. Harrison, Oxford University Press (2009) 194-217
‘All is well that ends tragically: George Tzavellas’ Antigone vs. Michael Cacoyannis’ Electra’, The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 51 (2008) 119-67
‘An eighteenth-century jealous woman and a twentieth-century hysterical diva: the case of Mozart’s Idomeneo (1781) and Strauss’ Elektra (1909)’, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, Issue 2 (2007) 1-32 [read this online].
