Dr Ramona Dana Lungu

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Research interests:
Early Modern French tragedy, particularly the plays written by Jean Racine, Pierre Corneille and Hilaire-Bernard de Longepierre: tragic heroines and ways of approaching their behaviour inspired by recent developments in the fields of ethics and psychoanalysis; the concept of tragic hero; the psychodynamic of characters. I have been awarded the SEMFS Amy Wygant scholarship to finalise my monograph based on this work: Médée, Clytemnestre and Phèdre: Female Heroism Revisited in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy (Brill, Faux Titre, forthcoming 2023).


Cutting edge approaches to staging early modern tragedy: the readings that emerge from recent productions of these plays and the way they inform the interpretation of the text; the way twentieth and twentieth-century radical adaptations breathe new life into these dramatic texts and create connections with contemporaneity. These interests have generated an upcoming article on contemporary adaptation: 'Faire de contraintes théâtre’ staging Bajazet at the Comédie Française'.


The experience of migration and motherhood the challenges and the possibilities for resistance which it generates; working with migrant mothers in ethical and equitable ways to provide an inclusive account of this experience.

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