Melinda Powers
Professor Melinda Powers
Program Scholar for the Queens Library
Melinda Powers, Assistant Professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 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 on contemporary adaptations of the classics including her forthcoming article in theJournal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism “Unveiling Euripides”, an Oxyrhynchus papyrus of Demosthenes XIX, as well as reviews on contemporary performances of Greek drama. She is currently working on a book project with University of Iowa Press titled “The (W)hole Story: A History of Narrating Athenian Performance.”
