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Al Duncan

Position: 

PhD Candidate
Geballe Dissertation Fellow

Contact Information: 

alduncan@stanford.edu

Stanford Humanities Center
424 Santa Teresa Street
Stanford, CA 94040

Office Hours: 

By e-mail appointment

CV: 
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DuncanCV_2012_02.pdf
Biography: 

Al Duncan is a graduate student whose primary interests involve Greek drama. His dissertation, "Tragic Ugliness: The Interplay of Genre and Aesthetics in Greek Drama,” co-directed by Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi and Richard Martin, with Rush Rehm and Andrea Nightingale as readers, studies the reflexive relationship between genre and aesthetics in drama of the fifth century BCE. Using historical, visual, and textual evidence, the work calls for a reassessment of the role of ugliness in tragedy.

 

Current Projects: 
"Tragic Ugliness: The Interplay of Genre and Aesthetics in Greek Drama" (completed dissertation; monograph in preparation)
“Beauty’s Effacement: Masking Mourning in Euripides’ Helen” (in preparation)
“The Dedicated Comic Mask as Material Object and Poetic Symbol” (in preparation)
Book review: R. Wyles, Costume in Greek Tragedy. London: Bristol Classical Press, 2011. Forthcoming from BMCR.
Book review: M. Ewans, Aristophanes: Acharnians, Knights, and Peace. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2012. Forthcoming from CJ.