Jane Montgomery Griffiths
PhD (University of Melbourne), GradCertHigherEd (Monash University), (MA (University of Cambridge), BA, Hons (University of Cambridge),
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Biography
My career combines academic teaching and research with professional theatre practice. As an actor, I have had an extensive career in UK theatre, and have recently returned to professional practice, performing with Bell Shakespeare Company in King Lear, The Stork Theatre in Razing Hypatia, and Malthouse Theatre in Sappho...in 9 fragments. As a director, I have worked with Harrogate Theatre, UpFront Theatre Company and have been Artistic Director of the Cambridge Greek Play, directing acclaimed productions of Trojan Women and Electra. My practice and research actively fosters interdisciplinary links between Classics and performance, and my current research projects investigate affective ways of interpreting classic/al texts through performance. My teaching practice includes positions in Classical Studies and Drama departments in universities in the UK and Australia. I was the Judith E. Wilson Visiting Lecturer in Drama (1998, King’s College) and the inaugural Leventis Fellow in Greek Drama (2001, Peterhouse) at the University of Cambridge, and have also taught at Bretton Hall, York St Johns, La Trobe and University of Melbourne. I am currently Senior Lecturer and ARC Research Fellow in the Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies at Monash University.
Research interests
Classical Performance Reception:
Investigating how performance practice informs interpretations and constructions of the ancient world (especially Sophocles and Sappho).
Practice-based research:
Building on professional practice as actor, playwright and director
Shakespeare and performance:
In particular, contemporary reworkings of Shakespeare and practice-based explorations of ‘playing Shakespeare’.
Selected publications
- Griffiths Montgomery, J. (2010) Sappho…in 9 fragments. Sydney, Currency Press.
- Griffiths Montgomery, J. (2010) ‘Acting Perspectives: the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception’, in Hall, E. edited, Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History, and Critical Practice. London, Duckworth.
- Griffiths Montgomery, J. (2010) ‘The Abject Eidos: embodying trauma in Sophocles’ Electra’, in Parker, J. and Mathews, T. edited, Translation, Trauma and Tradition. Oxford, Oxford University Press.
- Griffiths Montgomery, J. (2010) ‘Shaming Words: Performing the name in Sophocles’ Electra’ in Davidson, J. edited, Greek Drama IV. Oxford, Oxbow.
- Griffiths Montgomery, J. (2008) ‘Remembering Derry’ Didaskalia, Vol 7, No. 2.
Competitive grants
- Staging Sappho: towards a new methodology of classical performance reception (2009-20120. Australian Research Council.