Dr Anastasia Remoundou-Howley

Research Associate

E-mail: tasharemhotmail.com

Anastasia was born in Athens, Greece, where she received her BA in English from The American College of Greece (Deree) with High Distinction. She then graduated from the University of Edinburgh with an MSc in English Literature: Writing & Cultural Politics and in 2011 she obtained her PhD from the National University of Ireland, Galway, where she also taught literature and philosophy.

Research interests

Anastasia’s main research interests lie in contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy in Irish literature and more particularly in the Irish and international literary and philosophical responses to Antigonean discourses. With an emphasis on topics such as enforced disappearance, human rights, democracy, mourning, war, conflict, vulnerability, memory, trauma, survival, mothering politics, crisis of the community and political activism, gender representations, Irish nationalism and belonging, Anastasia’s research on the Irish Antigones calls for a post-humanist discussion on ethics redirected into the political sphere. She has presented numerous papers and published articles and book chapters on contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy for the Irish theatre in international contexts.

Currently she is working on a post-doctoral research project on Greek tragedy, enforced disappearance and human rights in Irish, Argentinean, and Arabic theatre and film. Her thesis “Palimpsests of Antigone: Greek Tragedy for the Modern Irish Stage“ is currently being prepared to be published as a monograph.

The was recently selected to participate in the three-year research project (2012–2014) of the Michalis Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens, Greece: “Ancient Greek Drama: Influences and Contemporary Approaches”.

She is a member of ISTR (Irish Society for Theatre Research) and Arc-Net (European Network of Research and Documentation of Performances of Ancient Greek Tragedy).

Publications

“A Suburban Oresteia: Simon Doyle’s Off Plan and the Architecture of Dispossession”. In Epidaurus Encounters, Athens: Parodos Verlag, 2012 (forthcoming).

“Antigone Stopped in Belfast: Stacey Gregg’s Ismene”. In New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, the Open University, Issue 6, Spring 2011.

“Visualizing Terror: Irish Antigones and Contemporary Political Tragedies.” Oxford: inter-disciplinary.net, 2009. [download]

“Rehearsing Instabilities in Aidan Mathews’ The Antigone.” In Tragic Heroines on Ancient and Modern Stage, eds. Maria de Fatima Silva & Susana Hora Marques. Portugal: Classica Digitalia Universitatis Conimbrigiensis, Centre of Classical and Humanistic Studies, University of Coimbra, 1a/2010.

“The Popularity and Reception of Antigone in Contemporary Irish Drama: Five Versions.” In Philological Explorations, ed. Gilda Socarras, Athens: ATINER, 2009.

Review

Patrick Crowley, Noreen Humble and Silvia Ross (eds.), Mediterranean Travels: Writing Self and Other from the Ancient World to Contemporary Society. London: Legenda, 2011. Aigne Journal, University College Cork.

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