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Anna Albrektson Editor

Anna Albrektson (FKA Cullhed) is Professor of Literature at Stockholm University. She has published on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European poetics, and Swedish sentimental literature. Her current research concerns ecocriticism and Swedish literature, 1780-1840. Her project 'Moving Medea: The Transcultural stage in the Eighteenth Century' was funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Albrektson is a former President of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts (1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (OUP, 2005—with Edith Hall), Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (2009), and Performing Epic or Telling Tales (OUP, 2020—with Justine McConnell). She has edited nine APGRD volumes, most recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2018) and Seamus Heaney and the Classics (OUP, 2019).