Kathleen Riley
 Kathleen Riley is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in
Classics at Oxford University and a Junior Research Fellow of Corpus
Christi College. She is also a Postdoctoral Research Associate of
the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Her current
research involves an international and interdisciplinary study of
the reception of Greek tragedy in the Modernist period.
Kathleen’s first book, published in 2004, was the authorized
biography Nigel Hawthorne on Stage. Her second book, The
Reception and Performance of Euripides’ Herakles: Reasoning Madness,
will be published by Oxford University Press in May 2008.
A lifelong Astaire enthusiast, Kathleen is presently at work on a
history of the stage career of Fred and Adèle Astaire. She is also
contributing a chapter to a new volume for OUP, The Ancient
Dancer in the Modern World, edited by Fiona Macintosh. This is
entitled ‘A Pylades for the Twentieth Century: Fred Astaire and the
Aesthetic of Bodily Eloquence’.
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