Professor Isabel Ruffell

  • Professor of Greek Drama and Culture (Classics)

telephone: 01413305379
email: Isabel.Ruffell@glasgow.ac.uk

R407 Level 4, Classics - School of Humanities, 65 Oakfield Avenue, Glasgow G12 8LP

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0030-5870

Research interests

My main research interests are in Greek drama and ancient science (especially mechanics), with interests also in Athenian politics, Roman Satire and gender and sexuality.

I have published extensively on Greek Comedy, Old and New, with particular emphasis on formal and political questions and the nature of audience response. I am interested in theoretical approaches to comedy, from ancient literary criticism to the latest cognitive science. My major monograph is Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the Art of the Impossible (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011). I work closely with my colleague Costas Panayotakis in working on popular comedy in a way that bridges Greek and Roman, Classical and Modern. The international conference ‘Rethinking Popular Comedy, Ancient and Modern’ was held in Glasgow in August 2013.

I am also have research interests in Greek tragedy: my short monograph on Prometheus Bound was published in 2012 with Bloomsbury Academic. I am working on a series of articles on Greek tragedy, re-examining debates about the politics of the genre through the theory and practice of radical democracy.  I am also interested in the interface between tragedy and history. Together with my colleague Lisa Hau, I am editing a collection of papers on Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralizing the Past for Routledge (2016), based on a panel at the 2012 Celtic Conference in Classics at Bordeaux.

My major research project is currently in the field of ancient mechanics. I have just completed a Leverhulme Major Research Grant on Hero of Alexandria and his Theatrical Automata, where I led a team that was reconstructing the automata described in Hero's treatise, re-investigating the text and writing the history of automata in antiquity [see Hero project website]. I am writing a monograph provisionally entiteled Constructing Ancient Automata. 

Publications

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2023

Ruffell, I. (2023) ‘How could a city become straight?' Aristophanes and the trans foundations of the comic state. In: Haselswerdt, E., Lindheim, S. H. and Ormand, K. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory. Series: Routledge handbooks of classics and theory. Routledge, pp. 202-214. ISBN 9781032026794

Ruffell, I. A. (2023) Not yet the android: the limits of wonder in ancient automata. In: Gerolemou, M. and Kazantzidis, G. (eds.) Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, pp. 70-104. ISBN 9781009085786 (doi: 10.1017/9781009085786.004)

Ruffell, I. (2023) Prometheus bound: the principle of hope. In: Bromberg, J. A. and Burian, P. (eds.) A Companion to Aeschylus. Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Wiley, pp. 158-170. ISBN 9781119072409 (doi: 10.1002/9781119072348.ch12)

2022

Ruffell, I. (2022) Bacchae: "an excessively high price to pay for being reluctant to emerge from the closet"? In: Olsen, S. and Telò, M. (eds.) Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 239-248. ISBN 9781350249622

2021

Ruffell, I. (2021) The aesthetics of the comic list. In: Lämmle, R., Scheidegger Lämmle, C. and Wesselmann, K. (eds.) Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration. Series: Trends in classics : supplementary volumes, 107. De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany, pp. 327-360. ISBN 9783110712193 (doi: 10.1515/9783110712230-015)

2020

Ruffell, I. (2020) Poetics, perversions, and passing: approaching the transgender narratives of Thesmophoriazousai. Illinois Classical Studies, 45(2), pp. 333-367. (doi: 10.5406/illiclasstud.45.2.0333)

Ruffell, I. A. (2020) Politics and power. In: Ewans, M. (ed.) Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity. Series: The Cultural histories series, 1. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 119-136. ISBN 9781350000827

Ruffell, I.A. (2020) Conservative and radical: Aristophanic comedy and populist debate in democratic Athens. In: Rosen, R. M. and Foley, H. P. (eds.) Aristophanes and Politics. Series: Columbia studies in the classical tradition (45). Brill: Leiden, pp. 60-89. ISBN 9789004424456 (doi: 10.1163/9789004424463_006)

2019

Ruffell, I. (2019) Rebooting antiquity's robots. Argo: A Hellenic Review, 9, pp. 17-20.

Ruffell, I. (2019) Teleclides. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, p. 924. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Ancient theories of comedy. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 204-206. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Bergson. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, p. 132. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Cockaigne. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 198-199. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Didacticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 264-265. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Expurgation. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 347-348. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Freud. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 366-367. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Irony. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 456-457. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Joke patterns. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 460-462. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Performance criticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 682-684. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Psychoanalytic criticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 787-789. ISBN 9781118605042

2018

Ruffell, I. A. (2018) Aristophanes and his rivals - (M.) Telò Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy. Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon. Classical Review, 68(2), pp. 344-347. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000823)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2018) Prometheus. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0304)

Ruffell, I. A. (2018) Stop making sense: the politics of Aristophanic madness. Illinois Classical Studies, 43(2), pp. 326-350. (doi: 10.5406/illiclasstud.43.2.0326)

2017

Ruffell, I. (2017) Sexuality and gender: off-stage and centre-stage. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama: London, pp. 47-63. ISBN 9781472585844

Ruffell, I. (2017) (What's so funny 'bout) peace, love and understanding? Imagining peace in Greek comedy. In: Moloney, E.P. and Williams, M. S. (eds.) Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World. Routledge. ISBN 9781472466358

2016

Ruffell, I. A. (2016) C. W. Marshall and G. Kovacs (eds), No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). Klio, 98(2), pp. 751-754. (doi: 10.1515/klio-2016-0063)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (Eds.) (2016) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York. ISBN 9781138839403

Ruffell, I. (2016) Tragedy and fictionality. In: Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (eds.) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 32-54. ISBN 9781138839403

Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (2016) Introduction. In: Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. (eds.) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781138839403

Keenan-Jones, D. , Ruffell, I. and McGookin, E. (2016) Taking a bearing on Hero’s anti-crane and its un-windlass: the relationship between Hero of Alexandria’s mobile automaton and Greco-Roman construction machinery. In: DeLaine, J., Camporeale, S. and Pizzo, A. (eds.) Proceedings of Archaeology of Construction V. Man-Made Materials, Engineering and Infrastructure. Series: Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Mérida. ISBN 9788400101428

Ruffell, I. (2016) Drama lessons in Aristophanes' Frogs. Omnibus, 71, pp. 30-31.

Ruffell, I. (2016) Review of A. Bagordo, Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum I.1: Alkimenes – Kantharos. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 69, pp. 10-13. [Book Review]

2015

Ruffell, I. (2015) A. Tzanetou, City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire. Klio, 97(2), pp. 1-5. [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2015) The grotesque comic body between the real and the unreal. In: Bastin-Hammou, M. and Orfanos, C. (eds.) Carnaval et Comédie: Actes du Colloque International Organisé par l'équipe PLH-CRATA les 9-10 Décembre 2009 à l’Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté: Besançon, pp. 37-73. ISBN 9782848675404

Ruffell, I. (2015) S. E. Kidd, Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy. Classical World, 109(1), pp. 142-144. (doi: 10.1353/clw.2015.0083)[Book Review]

2014

Ruffell, I.A. (2014) Utopianism. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy. Series: Cambridge companions to literature and classics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 206-221. ISBN 9780521760287 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139015356.014)

Ruffell, I. (2014) Character types. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 147-167. ISBN 9780521747400 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139015356.010)

Ruffell, I. A. (2014) The nurse's tale. In: Stuttard, D. (ed.) Looking at Medea. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9781472530165

Ruffell, I. (2014) Reception and performance history of the Oresteia. In: Aeschylus: Oresteia. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Bloomsbury: London, ix-xxii. ISBN 9781472526793

Ruffell, I.A. (2014) Old comedy at Rome: rhetorical model and satirical problem. In: Douglas Olson, S. (ed.) Ancient Comedy and Reception: Studies on the Classical Tradition of Comedy from Aristophanes to the Twenty-First Century. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 247-308. ISBN 9781614511250

2013

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: A. Markantonatos and B. Zimmermann eds., Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 182-183. (doi: 10.1017/S007542691300030X)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: M. Wright, The Comedian as Critic. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 181-182. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426913000281)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2013) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. In: Roisman, H.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 54-61. ISBN 9781444335927

Ruffell, I.A. (2013) Greek tragedy's political content. In: Roisman, H.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 650-654. ISBN 9781444335927

Ruffell, I.A. (2013) Humiliation? Voyeurism, violence and humour in Aristophanes. Helios, 40(1-2), pp. 247-277. (doi: 10.1353/hel.2013.0009)

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: T.S. Johnson, Horace's Iambic Criticism. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 9(49), [Book Review]

2012

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) Review Article: Greek Comedy. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 132, pp. 157-171. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426912000110)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) "Seeing the meat for what it is": Aristophanic expurgation and its phallacies. In: Harrison, S.J. and Stray, C. (eds.) Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin. Bristol Classical Press: London, UK, pp. 25-51. ISBN 9781849668927

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. Series: Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. Bristol Classical Press: London. ISBN 9780715634769

2011

Ruffell, I. (2011) Review of J. Michael Walton, Euripides: Our Contemporary, and E. Hall and S, Harrop (eds.), Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Cultural Practice. Theatre Research International, 36(3), pp. 292-293. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883311000265)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2011) Politics and Anti-realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the Art of the Impossible. Series: Oxford classical monographs. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199587216

Ruffell, I.A. (2011) Response to Murnaghan and Visvardi. In: Carter, D.M. (ed.) Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 293-301. ISBN 9780199562329

2010

Ruffell, I. (2010) Review of A. Lianeri & V. Zajko (eds), Translation and the Classic. Journal of Roman Studies, 100, pp. 317-319. (doi: 10.1017/S0075435810000778)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2010) Translating Greece to Rome: humour and the re-invention of popular culture. In: Chiaro, D. C. (ed.) Translation, Humour and Literature. Series: Continuum Advances in Translation, 1. Continuum: London, pp. 91-118. ISBN 9781441158239

Ruffell, I. (2010) Classics at Glasgow. Journal of Classics Teaching, 19, pp. 11-12.

2009

Ruffell, I.A. (2009) Comic Business in Aristophanes. Arion, 16(3), pp. 143-168. [Book Review]

2008

Ruffell, I. (2008) Review of Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes by J. E. Robson. Classical Review, 58(1), pp. 25-26. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X07001667)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2008) Audience and emotion in the reception of Greek drama. In: Taplin, O., Revermann, M. and Wilson, P. (eds.) Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 37-58. ISBN 9780199232215

2006

Ruffell, I.A. (2006) Greek comedy. In: Bispham, E., Harrison, T. and Sparkes, B.A. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece & Rome. University of Edinburgh Press, pp. 299-308. ISBN 0748616292

Ruffell, I.A. (2006) A little ironic (don't you think?): utopian criticism and the problem of Aristophanes' late plays. In: Kozak, L. and Rich, J. (eds.) Playing Around Aristophanes. Oxbow Books, pp. 65-104. ISBN 0856687715

2005

Ruffell, I. (2005) Review of Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning by O. Taxidou. Theatre Research International, 30(2), pp. 190-191. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883305221417)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2005) Review of; N.W. Slater, Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes. Classical Review, 100(3), pp. 309-312. [Book Review]

2004

Ruffell, I. (2004) Review of J. Porter (ed.), Constructions of the Classical Body, and L. Brisson, Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 124, pp. 204-205. (doi: 10.2307/3246183)[Book Review]

McAleer, E., Ruffell, I., Williamson, S. and Muirhead, A. (2004) Which Media, When and Why? In: Networked Learning Conference, Lancaster University, England, 5-7 April 2004,

2003

Ruffell, I. (2003) Review of; R. Krumeich et al., eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel. Classical Review, 53(2), pp. 288-290. (doi: 10.1093/cr/53.2.288)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2003) Beyond satire: Horace, popular incentive and the segregation of literature. Journal of Roman Studies, 93, pp. 35-65.

2002

Ruffell, I.A. (2002) A total write-off: Aristophanes, Kratinos and the rhetoric of comic competition. Classical Quarterly, 52(1), pp. 138-163. (doi: 10.1093/cq/52.1.138)

Ruffell, I. (2002) Review of Alan H. Sommerstein (ed.), Aristophanes: Wealth. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002(08.43), [Book Review]

2001

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of P. Totaro, Le seconde parabasi di Aristofane. Classical Review, 51(2), pp. 383-384. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.2.383)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of I. Lada-Richards, Initiating Dionysos: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes. Classical Review, 51(1), pp. 16-18. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.1.16)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of; B. Zimmermann, ed., Griechisch-römische Komödie und Tragödie III (Drama 8). Classical Review, 51(1), pp. 172-173. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.1.172-a)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2001) Did comedy kill the philosophy star? Omnibus, 43, pp. 29-31.

2000

Ruffell, I. (2000) The world turned upside down: utopia and utopianism in the fragments of old comedy. In: Harvey, F.D., Wilkins, J. and Dover, K.J. (eds.) The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales: London, pp. 473-506. ISBN 9780715630457

1999

Ruffell, I. (1999) Review of G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama. Classical Review, 49(2), pp. 356-358. (doi: 10.1093/cr/49.2.356)[Book Review]

1997

Ruffell, I. (1997) Review of J. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes: the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. things, 7(Winter), pp. 113-116. [Book Review]

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Articles

Ruffell, I. (2020) Poetics, perversions, and passing: approaching the transgender narratives of Thesmophoriazousai. Illinois Classical Studies, 45(2), pp. 333-367. (doi: 10.5406/illiclasstud.45.2.0333)

Ruffell, I. (2019) Rebooting antiquity's robots. Argo: A Hellenic Review, 9, pp. 17-20.

Ruffell, I. A. (2018) Stop making sense: the politics of Aristophanic madness. Illinois Classical Studies, 43(2), pp. 326-350. (doi: 10.5406/illiclasstud.43.2.0326)

Ruffell, I. (2016) Drama lessons in Aristophanes' Frogs. Omnibus, 71, pp. 30-31.

Ruffell, I.A. (2013) Humiliation? Voyeurism, violence and humour in Aristophanes. Helios, 40(1-2), pp. 247-277. (doi: 10.1353/hel.2013.0009)

Ruffell, I. (2010) Classics at Glasgow. Journal of Classics Teaching, 19, pp. 11-12.

Ruffell, I.A. (2003) Beyond satire: Horace, popular incentive and the segregation of literature. Journal of Roman Studies, 93, pp. 35-65.

Ruffell, I.A. (2002) A total write-off: Aristophanes, Kratinos and the rhetoric of comic competition. Classical Quarterly, 52(1), pp. 138-163. (doi: 10.1093/cq/52.1.138)

Ruffell, I.A. (2001) Did comedy kill the philosophy star? Omnibus, 43, pp. 29-31.

Books

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. Series: Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy. Bristol Classical Press: London. ISBN 9780715634769

Ruffell, I.A. (2011) Politics and Anti-realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the Art of the Impossible. Series: Oxford classical monographs. Oxford University Press: Oxford. ISBN 9780199587216

Book Sections

Ruffell, I. (2023) ‘How could a city become straight?' Aristophanes and the trans foundations of the comic state. In: Haselswerdt, E., Lindheim, S. H. and Ormand, K. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Classics and Queer Theory. Series: Routledge handbooks of classics and theory. Routledge, pp. 202-214. ISBN 9781032026794

Ruffell, I. A. (2023) Not yet the android: the limits of wonder in ancient automata. In: Gerolemou, M. and Kazantzidis, G. (eds.) Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge University Press, pp. 70-104. ISBN 9781009085786 (doi: 10.1017/9781009085786.004)

Ruffell, I. (2023) Prometheus bound: the principle of hope. In: Bromberg, J. A. and Burian, P. (eds.) A Companion to Aeschylus. Series: Blackwell companions to the ancient world. Wiley, pp. 158-170. ISBN 9781119072409 (doi: 10.1002/9781119072348.ch12)

Ruffell, I. (2022) Bacchae: "an excessively high price to pay for being reluctant to emerge from the closet"? In: Olsen, S. and Telò, M. (eds.) Queer Euripides: Re-Readings in Greek Tragedy. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 239-248. ISBN 9781350249622

Ruffell, I. (2021) The aesthetics of the comic list. In: Lämmle, R., Scheidegger Lämmle, C. and Wesselmann, K. (eds.) Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond: Towards a Poetics of Enumeration. Series: Trends in classics : supplementary volumes, 107. De Gruyter: Berlin, Germany, pp. 327-360. ISBN 9783110712193 (doi: 10.1515/9783110712230-015)

Ruffell, I. A. (2020) Politics and power. In: Ewans, M. (ed.) Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity. Series: The Cultural histories series, 1. Bloomsbury Academic: London, pp. 119-136. ISBN 9781350000827

Ruffell, I.A. (2020) Conservative and radical: Aristophanic comedy and populist debate in democratic Athens. In: Rosen, R. M. and Foley, H. P. (eds.) Aristophanes and Politics. Series: Columbia studies in the classical tradition (45). Brill: Leiden, pp. 60-89. ISBN 9789004424456 (doi: 10.1163/9789004424463_006)

Ruffell, I. (2019) Teleclides. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, p. 924. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Ancient theories of comedy. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 204-206. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Bergson. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, p. 132. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Cockaigne. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 198-199. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Didacticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 264-265. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Expurgation. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 347-348. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Freud. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 366-367. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Irony. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 456-457. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Joke patterns. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 460-462. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Performance criticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 682-684. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2019) Psychoanalytic criticism. In: Sommerstein, A. H. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Greek Comedy. Wiley: Malden, Mass. and Oxford, pp. 787-789. ISBN 9781118605042

Ruffell, I. (2018) Prometheus. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780195389661-0304)

Ruffell, I. (2017) Sexuality and gender: off-stage and centre-stage. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity. Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama: London, pp. 47-63. ISBN 9781472585844

Ruffell, I. (2017) (What's so funny 'bout) peace, love and understanding? Imagining peace in Greek comedy. In: Moloney, E.P. and Williams, M. S. (eds.) Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World. Routledge. ISBN 9781472466358

Ruffell, I. (2016) Tragedy and fictionality. In: Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (eds.) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 32-54. ISBN 9781138839403

Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (2016) Introduction. In: Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. (eds.) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781138839403

Keenan-Jones, D. , Ruffell, I. and McGookin, E. (2016) Taking a bearing on Hero’s anti-crane and its un-windlass: the relationship between Hero of Alexandria’s mobile automaton and Greco-Roman construction machinery. In: DeLaine, J., Camporeale, S. and Pizzo, A. (eds.) Proceedings of Archaeology of Construction V. Man-Made Materials, Engineering and Infrastructure. Series: Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas: Mérida. ISBN 9788400101428

Ruffell, I. (2015) The grotesque comic body between the real and the unreal. In: Bastin-Hammou, M. and Orfanos, C. (eds.) Carnaval et Comédie: Actes du Colloque International Organisé par l'équipe PLH-CRATA les 9-10 Décembre 2009 à l’Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail. Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté: Besançon, pp. 37-73. ISBN 9782848675404

Ruffell, I.A. (2014) Utopianism. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy. Series: Cambridge companions to literature and classics. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 206-221. ISBN 9780521760287 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139015356.014)

Ruffell, I. (2014) Character types. In: Revermann, M. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 147-167. ISBN 9780521747400 (doi: 10.1017/CCO9781139015356.010)

Ruffell, I. A. (2014) The nurse's tale. In: Stuttard, D. (ed.) Looking at Medea. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 65-82. ISBN 9781472530165

Ruffell, I. (2014) Reception and performance history of the Oresteia. In: Aeschylus: Oresteia. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Bloomsbury: London, ix-xxii. ISBN 9781472526793

Ruffell, I.A. (2014) Old comedy at Rome: rhetorical model and satirical problem. In: Douglas Olson, S. (ed.) Ancient Comedy and Reception: Studies on the Classical Tradition of Comedy from Aristophanes to the Twenty-First Century. De Gruyter: Berlin, pp. 247-308. ISBN 9781614511250

Ruffell, I. (2013) Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound. In: Roisman, H.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 54-61. ISBN 9781444335927

Ruffell, I.A. (2013) Greek tragedy's political content. In: Roisman, H.M. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 650-654. ISBN 9781444335927

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) "Seeing the meat for what it is": Aristophanic expurgation and its phallacies. In: Harrison, S.J. and Stray, C. (eds.) Expurgating the Classics: Editing Out in Greek and Latin. Bristol Classical Press: London, UK, pp. 25-51. ISBN 9781849668927

Ruffell, I.A. (2011) Response to Murnaghan and Visvardi. In: Carter, D.M. (ed.) Why Athens? A Reappraisal of Tragic Politics. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 293-301. ISBN 9780199562329

Ruffell, I.A. (2010) Translating Greece to Rome: humour and the re-invention of popular culture. In: Chiaro, D. C. (ed.) Translation, Humour and Literature. Series: Continuum Advances in Translation, 1. Continuum: London, pp. 91-118. ISBN 9781441158239

Ruffell, I.A. (2008) Audience and emotion in the reception of Greek drama. In: Taplin, O., Revermann, M. and Wilson, P. (eds.) Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin. Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK, pp. 37-58. ISBN 9780199232215

Ruffell, I.A. (2006) Greek comedy. In: Bispham, E., Harrison, T. and Sparkes, B.A. (eds.) Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece & Rome. University of Edinburgh Press, pp. 299-308. ISBN 0748616292

Ruffell, I.A. (2006) A little ironic (don't you think?): utopian criticism and the problem of Aristophanes' late plays. In: Kozak, L. and Rich, J. (eds.) Playing Around Aristophanes. Oxbow Books, pp. 65-104. ISBN 0856687715

Ruffell, I. (2000) The world turned upside down: utopia and utopianism in the fragments of old comedy. In: Harvey, F.D., Wilkins, J. and Dover, K.J. (eds.) The Rivals of Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. Duckworth and the Classical Press of Wales: London, pp. 473-506. ISBN 9780715630457

Book Reviews

Ruffell, I. A. (2018) Aristophanes and his rivals - (M.) Telò Aristophanes and the Cloak of Comedy. Affect, Aesthetics, and the Canon. Classical Review, 68(2), pp. 344-347. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X18000823)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. A. (2016) C. W. Marshall and G. Kovacs (eds), No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012). Klio, 98(2), pp. 751-754. (doi: 10.1515/klio-2016-0063)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2016) Review of A. Bagordo, Fragmenta Comicorum Graecorum I.1: Alkimenes – Kantharos. Einleitung, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Anzeiger für die Altertumswissenschaft, 69, pp. 10-13. [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2015) A. Tzanetou, City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire. Klio, 97(2), pp. 1-5. [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2015) S. E. Kidd, Nonsense and Meaning in Ancient Greek Comedy. Classical World, 109(1), pp. 142-144. (doi: 10.1353/clw.2015.0083)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: A. Markantonatos and B. Zimmermann eds., Crisis on Stage: Tragedy and Comedy in Late Fifth-Century Athens. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 182-183. (doi: 10.1017/S007542691300030X)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: M. Wright, The Comedian as Critic. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 133, pp. 181-182. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426913000281)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2013) Review of: T.S. Johnson, Horace's Iambic Criticism. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 9(49), [Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2012) Review Article: Greek Comedy. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 132, pp. 157-171. (doi: 10.1017/S0075426912000110)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2011) Review of J. Michael Walton, Euripides: Our Contemporary, and E. Hall and S, Harrop (eds.), Theorising Performance: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Cultural Practice. Theatre Research International, 36(3), pp. 292-293. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883311000265)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2010) Review of A. Lianeri & V. Zajko (eds), Translation and the Classic. Journal of Roman Studies, 100, pp. 317-319. (doi: 10.1017/S0075435810000778)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I.A. (2009) Comic Business in Aristophanes. Arion, 16(3), pp. 143-168. [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2008) Review of Humour, Obscenity and Aristophanes by J. E. Robson. Classical Review, 58(1), pp. 25-26. (doi: 10.1017/S0009840X07001667)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2005) Review of Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning by O. Taxidou. Theatre Research International, 30(2), pp. 190-191. (doi: 10.1017/S0307883305221417)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2005) Review of; N.W. Slater, Spectator Politics: Metatheatre and Performance in Aristophanes. Classical Review, 100(3), pp. 309-312. [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2004) Review of J. Porter (ed.), Constructions of the Classical Body, and L. Brisson, Sexual Ambivalence: Androgyny and Hermaphroditism in Graeco-Roman Antiquity. Journal of Hellenic Studies, 124, pp. 204-205. (doi: 10.2307/3246183)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2003) Review of; R. Krumeich et al., eds., Das griechische Satyrspiel. Classical Review, 53(2), pp. 288-290. (doi: 10.1093/cr/53.2.288)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2002) Review of Alan H. Sommerstein (ed.), Aristophanes: Wealth. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2002(08.43), [Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of P. Totaro, Le seconde parabasi di Aristofane. Classical Review, 51(2), pp. 383-384. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.2.383)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of I. Lada-Richards, Initiating Dionysos: Ritual and Theatre in Aristophanes. Classical Review, 51(1), pp. 16-18. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.1.16)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (2001) Review of; B. Zimmermann, ed., Griechisch-römische Komödie und Tragödie III (Drama 8). Classical Review, 51(1), pp. 172-173. (doi: 10.1093/cr/51.1.172-a)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (1999) Review of G. W. Dobrov (ed.), The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama. Classical Review, 49(2), pp. 356-358. (doi: 10.1093/cr/49.2.356)[Book Review]

Ruffell, I. (1997) Review of J. Davidson, Courtesans and Fishcakes: the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. things, 7(Winter), pp. 113-116. [Book Review]

Edited Books

Ruffell, I. and Hau, L. I. (Eds.) (2016) Truth and History in the Ancient World: Pluralising the Past. Series: Routledge studies in ancient history. Routledge: London and New York. ISBN 9781138839403

Conference Proceedings

McAleer, E., Ruffell, I., Williamson, S. and Muirhead, A. (2004) Which Media, When and Why? In: Networked Learning Conference, Lancaster University, England, 5-7 April 2004,

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Grants

2014-18 £282,881: Leverhulme Trust Reseearch Project Grant, Hero of Alexandria and his Theatrical Automata

2013 £335 Gilbert Murray Trust, £1080 Classical Association and £560 Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, for conference on popular comedy

2012 £500 Institute of Classical Studies, for conference on popular comedy

2004-5 £9009 AHRC Research Leave Scheme

Supervision

I am particularly interested in supervising in the following areas:

  • Greek drama (comedy and tragedy), including reception and translation
  • Roman satire
  • Greek technical writing

Outside these areas, I am open to proposals, particularly in Greek poetry and classical prose authors.

I am currently supervising PhD theses in the fields of ancient mechanics (edition and commentary of Hero's Automata), ancient medicine (medical commentary on Scribonius Largus), Greek tragedy (jealousy in Athenian tragedy) and ancient gender and sexuality (sexual violence in Athens).

I have previously supervised doctorates on the following topic:

  • a translation and commentary on the first book of Aetius of Amida's De Simplicibus (Dr Eric Gowling)
  • the construction of the Greek hoplite (seciond supervisor)
  • monsters, monstrosity and masculinity (joint supervisor)

and masters theses by research on:

  • the reception of Sophocles in the twentieth century
  • Greek tragedy and postmodern constructions of gender
  • he construction of ancient mechanics
  • a study of Scribonius Largus
  • Li, Jinlu
    Between Tragedy and Philosophy:Aristophanes' Divine Writings

Teaching

At Honours, I convene the following courses in translation:

  • Ancient Technlogy in Context
  • Interpreting Greek Tragedy 
  • Reasons to be Cheerful: Theorising Comedy with Aristophanes and Menander
  • Putting the Gods in their Place: Low Culture and Mythological Burlesque )

and I offer the following courses in Greek (subject to demand):

  • Greek Tragedy
  • Greek Comedy
  • Greek Prose Style
  • Greek Unprepared Translation

I have also taught Greek Epic, Greek Lyric Poetry, and Latin Unprepared Translation and Prose Composition.

At pre-Honours, I convene Classical Civilisation 1A: Greece from Troy to Plataea (lecturing on Hesiod, Greek lyric poetry and aspects of Greek society) and beginners Greek (Greek 1A and 1B). I teach on Classical Civilisation 2A: the Civic Discourse of Classical Athens (lecturing on tragedy, comedy, Lysias and Plato) and occasionally lecture on Plautus for Classical Civilisation 1B: Republican Rome and on Juvenal for Classical Civilisation 2B: Imperial Rome.

I previously convened or taught on Greek 2A and 2B (advanced or post-beginners Greek). I have also taught on the parallel Latin courses.

Additional information

I am also engaged in the translation of classical texts, particularly for the modern stage.

In 2016, I provided the literal translation for David Greig's version of Aeschylus' Suppliant Women for the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Actors Touring Company. The play, featuring a chorus of locally recruited performars in each case, has been performed in Belfast, Dublin, London, Manchester, Newcastle, and most recently Hong Kong.

In 2007, I provided the literal translation for the National Theatre of Scotland's production of the Bacchae, adapted by David Greig and directed by John Tiffany, which opened the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival (reviews from the Herald, Independent and Telegraph).


Isabel Ruffell