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Biographical details
Prior to coming to King’s in 2016, Justine was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford, researching contemporary African, Caribbean, and ancient Greek poetics. She had previously held postdoctoral fellowships at Northwestern University in Illinois and at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD) at Oxford. She has a BA in Classics from Cambridge, an MPhil in English Literature from Bristol, and a PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Research interests
Justine is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP, 2013), Performing Epic or Telling Tales (co-authored with Fiona Macintosh; OUP, 2020), and Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean (Bloomsbury, 2023).
She has co-edited four volumes: Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (with Edith Hall and Richard Alston; OUP, 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (with Edith Hall; Bloomsbury, 2016), and Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (with Fiona Macintosh, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018).
Together with Rosa Andújar, she is editor of the Routledge series, 'Classics and the Postcolonial'.
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Derek Walcott and the Creation of a Classical Caribbean
McConnell, J., 15 Jun 2023, Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Caribbean Drama and Performance
McConnell, J., 1 Jan 2021, Caribbean Literature in Transition, 1970-2020. Cummings, R. & Donnell, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., p. 132-147Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Performance of Greek Tragedy: Review of Olga Taxidou, Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality
McConnell, J., 22 Dec 2021, In: CLASSICAL REVIEW. 72.1, p. 318-320Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Genres of Anglophone World Literatures
McConnell, J., 7 Sept 2020, Handbook of Anglophone World Literatures. Helgesson, S., Neumann, B. & Rippl, G. (eds.). Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter, p. 175-191Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Myth and the Fantastic in the Work of Junot Díaz
McConnell, J., 21 Jan 2020, Classicisms in the Black Atlantic. Moyer, I., Lecznar, A. & Morse, H. (eds.). Oxford Univerity Press; Oxford, (Classical Presences).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Activities
- 1 Editorial activity
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Routledge (Publisher)
Rosa Andujar (Editor) & Justine McConnell (Editor)
2018 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial activity