Professor Powers

MELINDA POWERS

Melinda Powers, Assistant Professor of English, received her B.A. from Columbia, M.St. and M.A. from the University of Oxford and the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. from UCLA (2007). Her teaching and research interests include ancient literature and its reception, historiography, performance theory, and especially the performance of Athenian drama on the ancient and contemporary stage. She has published an article “Dressing-up in Euripides’ Bacchae and Charles Mee’s Bacchae 2.1,” in Text and Presentation, an Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Demosthenes XIX, and reviews on contemporary performances of Greek drama. She is currently working on developing her dissertation "A Genealogy of Corporeal Culture in Bacchae" into a book.


			MELINDA POWERS Melinda Powers, Assistant Professor of English, received her B.A. from Columbia, M.St. and M.A. from the University of Oxford and the University of Southern California, and her Ph.D. from UCLA (2007). Her teaching and research interests include ancient literature and its reception, historiography, performance theory, and especially the performance of Athenian drama on the ancient and contemporary stage. She has published an article “Dressing-up in Euripides’ Bacchae and Charles Mee’s Bacchae 2.1,” in Text and Presentation, an Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Demosthenes XIX, and reviews on contemporary performances of Greek drama. She is currently working on developing her dissertation "A Genealogy of Corporeal Culture in Bacchae" into a book.

	Office: 719A Phone: (212) 237-8799 E-Mail: mpowers@jjay.cuny.edu