Dr Jane Griffiths - Researcher Profile

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.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Year awarded: 2006

MASTERS BY RESEARCH

Institution: Cambridge University

Year awarded: 1998

Publications

Book Chapters

Griffiths, D.J., 2012, Shaming words: Performing the name in Sophocles' Electra, in Greek Drama IV: Texts, Contexts, Perfomrance, eds David Rosenbloom and John Davidson, Oxbow Books, Oxford, UK, pp. 47-71.

Griffiths, D., 2011, The abject eidos: trauma and the body in Sophocles' Electra, in Tradition, Translation, Trauma: The Classic and the Modern, eds Jan Parker and Timothy Mathews, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 229-243.

Griffiths, D., 2010, Acting perspectives: the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception, in Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice, eds Edith Hall and Stephe Harrop, Duckworth Academic, London, United Kingdom, pp. 219-231.

Griffiths, D., 2010, Staging Sappho, in Sappho... in 9 Fragments, eds Claire Grady, Currency Press, NSW Australia, pp. 15-32.

Journal Articles

Griffiths, D.J., 2009, Remembering Derry: Sophocles' Electra and the space of memory, Didaskalia: ancient theater today [P], vol 7, issue 2, Didaskalia, United Kingdom, pp. 1-9.

Griffiths, D.J., 2007, Jane Montgomery talking with Lorna Hardwick about the Cambridge Greek play, Practitioners' Voices in Classical Reception Studies, vol 1, issue 1, Open University, http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/Practitioners/, pp. 16-25.

Griffiths, D.J., 2007, The experimental turn: shifting methodologies in the study of Greek drama, New Voices in Classical Reception Studies, vol 1, issue 2, Open University, http://www2.open.ac.uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/newvoices/index.htm, pp. 73-90.

Other

Griffiths, D.J., 2012, Classic love, Memoir, Meanjin, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 71.1, pp. 148-154.

Griffiths, D.J., 2012, Good people, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, 180 minutes, 31/1/12 - 4/2/12, Red Stitch Actor's Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.

Griffiths, D., 2012, Hypatia II, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, 50 minutes, 20/04/2011 & 03/06/2011, Alexander Theatre/Full House.

Griffiths, D.J., 2012, Wild Surmise, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, 70 minutes, 9/11/2012 - 2/12/2012, Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

Griffiths, D.J., 2012, Wittenberg, David Davalos, 130 minutes, 5/10/2012 - 3/11/2013, Red Stitch Actor's Theatre, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia.

Griffiths, D., 2010, Elektra, Sophocles and the Fraught Outfit, 2 hours 45 minutes, 10 March - 18 June 2010, Dog Theatre, Footscray.

Griffiths, D., 2010, King Lear, William Shakespeare/ Bell Shakespeare Company, 2 hours 45 minutes, 10 March - 18 June 2010, Sydney Opera House, Canberra Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Victorian Arts Centre.

Griffiths, D., 2010, Sappho...in 9 fragments, , Currency Press, Sydney, Australia.

Griffiths, D., 2010, Sappho...in 9 fragments, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, 90 minutes, 30 July - 21 August 2010, Beckett Theatre, Malthouse Theatre.

Griffiths, D.J., 2009, Death by numbers in Alexandria, The Age, Age Company Ltd, Australia.

Griffiths, D.J., 2009, Razing Hypatia, Jane Montgomery Griffiths, 75 minutes, 20 August 2009 to 6 September 2009, The Stork Stage, Melbourne Vic, Australia.

Griffiths, D.J., 2007, Sappho Unravelling, 1 hour / 45 minutes, 14 November 2007 - 2 December 2007, The Stork Stage, Melbourne.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

A Quarreling Pair by Jane Bowles: Beyond a Biographical Reading..

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Application of directorial methodologies in the rehearsal of non-naturalistic performance.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Snow, P (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Glimpses of a Devoured Reality: Self-Expansion Through the Ritual of Telling.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Oriel Gray: Women playwrights then and now..

Supervisors:

Casey, M (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Seeking Dorothy: in the land of OZ.

Supervisors:

Peterson, W (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Sexual bodies: Exploring female sexual agency in performance.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Gregory, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Stealing Fire: Contemporary theatre as an act of adaptation.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Joint-co), Nobis, F (Associate), Worth, C (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Telling tales: classical mythology in contemporary children's literature.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Do Rozario, R (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The drift of contemporary leisure shopping: from Psychogeography of the city to a phenomenology of place.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Burke, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

To tell: narration in contemporary theatre.

Supervisors:

Casey, M (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Tools for shock: the grotesque and Katyn - a performance.

Supervisors:

Grant, S (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Waiting for godot to call us wogs: the refusal to perform the ethnic stereotype.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Grant, S (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Chandler, T.

Program of Study:

Reading Atmospheres: Ecological Aesthetics and Virgil's Eclogues. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Rigby, C (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).

Student:

Kokkinos-Kennedy, K.

Program of Study:

THE HOUSE PROJECT: hedda gabler the remix. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main), Peterson, W (Associate).

Student:

Privitera, S.

Program of Study:

Marking the Boundaries: The Social configuration and Presentation of Female Monstrosity in Early Greek Poetry. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Griffiths, J (Main).

Student:

Searle, T.

Program of Study:

Reading the Leaves: Live Art Aesthetics. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Snow, P (Main), Griffiths, J (Associate).