Dr Laura Swift

BIOGRAPHY

Laura Swift is Lecturer in Classical Studies at the Open University, having previously taught at UCL and at Oxford. Her research focuses on Greek tragedy and lyric, with a particular interest in the chorus, and she is the author of The Hidden Chorus: Echoes of Genre in Tragic Lyric (Oxford, 2010), which explores the relationship between the tragic chorus and other forms of choral performance in Greek society. She has also published a book on Euripides' Ion (Duckworth 2008), and is now working on early Greek lyric poetry. She enjoys working with practitioners on modern performances of Greek drama, and acted as academic consultant to the National Theatre's 2012 performance of Antigone.