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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Oliver Baldwin

Citation names

  • Baldwin, Oliver

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
1B1B-C009-B810
ORCID iD
0000-0002-3558-3467
Education
Degree Classification
2013/09/01 - 2019/08/01
Concluded
 Classics (Doctor of Philosophy)
King's College London, United Kingdom
"Seneca's Medea in Republican Spain: creation and impact of its 1933 production. " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Pass with no corrections (highest in UK)
2010/09/01 - 2011/11/01
Concluded
 Reception of the Classical World (Master)
University College London Department of Greek and Latin, United Kingdom
"Lorca’s use of Greek Tragedy’s dramatic frameworks in his own version of tragedy" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Merit
2007/09/01 - 2010/08/01
Concluded
 Classics (Bachelor)
Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
"The office of Proxenia in the Athenian Empire." (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Second Class Honours (Upper Division)
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/08/01 - Current Contracted Researcher (Research) Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
Universidade de Lisboa Centro de Estudos Clássicos, Portugal
2020/09/01 - 2023/08/31 Postdoc (Research) University of Reading, United Kingdom
University of Reading, United Kingdom
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Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/09/04 - 2024/09/03 Lecturer (University Teacher) Durham University, United Kingdom
Durham University, United Kingdom
2020/01/01 - 2020/04/30 Lecturer (University Teacher) Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom
Projects

Other

Designation Funders
2020/09/01 - 2023/08/31 Queer Tragedy
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Principal investigator
University of Reading, United Kingdom

The British Academy, United Kingdom
The British Academy
Ongoing
2013/09/01 - 2019/08/01 Seneca’s Medea in Republican Spain: precedents, creation and impact of its 1933 production
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PhD Student Fellow
King’s College London, United Kingdom
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Seneca’s Medea and the Republican Spain: Performing the Nation. 2022.
Book chapter
  1. Baldwin, Oliver. "‘“Nací para tener los ojos abiertos”. Gnosis y perspectiva trágica en La Casa de Bernarda Alba’.". In [“Cuando Saturno detuvo los trenes”: Nuevos estudios sobre Federico García Lorca y el mundo clásico.]. Madrid, Spain, 2024.
    Accepted
  2. Baldwin, Oliver. "The (un)stageable Seneca: A Spanish response’. Baldwin, O". In [Proceedings of the 2022 Seneca Conference in Lisbon]. Lisbon, Portugal, 2023.
    In press
  3. Baldwin, Oliver. "Rito y ceremonia queer: la Medea de Carrusel (1979-1980)". In [CLASTEA V Réception des modèles antiques dans le théâtre ibéro-américain et francophone]. France, 2023.
    In press
  4. Baldwin, Oliver. "Female Listener and Monstrous Performer: Penelope in Vargas Llosa’s Odiseo y Penelope". In [“Human” and “Non-Human” in Homeric and Archaic Epic: Male, Female, Childish, Unhuman, Divine, Animal, Monstrous]. Greece, 2023.
    In press
  5. Baldwin, Oliver. "Rhesus: Tragic Wilderness in Queer Time". In Queer Euripides: Re-readings in Greek tragedy, edited by Mario Telò and Sara Olsen, 33-42. New York, United States: Bloomsbury, 2022.
    Published
  6. "Caudillo de España: Viriathus, Trajan, Franco". Poland: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu {\L, 2021.
    10.18778/8220-421-6.17
  7. Baldwin, Oliver. "Ritmo báquico: lo dionisíaco en la Medea de Séneca. Mérida, 18 de Junio 1933". In Forum classicorum: perspectivas y avances sobre el Mundo Clásico, 1205-1212. Madrid, Spain: Guillermo Escolar Editor, 2021.
  8. Baldwin, Oliver. "The theatre of conquest: the Spanish Empire, Medea and the New World". In Medea in World Artistic Culture, edited by I. Darchia, L. Gordeziani and L. Gordeziani, 37-51. Tbilisi, Georgia: Logos, 2018.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Baldwin, Oliver. "Queer Bromius: LGBT versions of The Bacchae". Paper presented in Lisbon Classics Seminar, Lisbon, 2023.
  2. Baldwin, Oliver. "Dionisa travesti: a Mexican trans Bacchae". Paper presented in Classical Association Conference 2023., Cambridge, 2023.
  3. Baldwin, Oliver. "Bacchants in La Movida: Lourdes Ortiz’s queer-punk Penteo". Paper presented in Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland annual confererence, Dublin, 2023.
  4. Baldwin, Oliver. "Rito y ceremonia queer: la Medea de Carrusel (1979-1980)". London, 2023.
  5. Baldwin, Oliver. "Sapphic Bacchae: Butch(er)ing Section 28". Paper presented in Durham University, Department of Classics and Ancient History’ s Research Seminar, Durham, 2023.
  6. Baldwin, Oliver. "The (un)stageable Seneca: A Spanish response". Lisbon, 2022.
  7. Baldwin, Oliver. "Dioniso queer: versiones LGBTQ de Las Bacantes de Eurípides". Paper presented in Seminario del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2022.
  8. Baldwin, Oliver. "Coram populo: La Medea de Séneca, de la Mérida española a la Ciudad de México". Paper presented in Seminario del Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, 2022.
  9. Baldwin, Oliver. "Female Listener and Monstrous Performer: Penelope in Vargas Llosa’s Odiseo y Penelope". Ithaca, 2022.
  10. Baldwin, Oliver. "Rito y ceremonia de la liminalidad: Medea de Carrusel (1979-1980)". Clermont-Auvergne, 2021.
  11. Baldwin, Oliver. "A gay Medea again: toxic masculinity, non-normative parenthood and uncoded marriage". Reading, 2021.
  12. Baldwin, Oliver. "Gay Medeas: Tragic betrayal, parenthood and displacement". Paper presented in Royal Holloway University of London, Classics Department seminar, Egham, 2021.
  13. Baldwin, Oliver. "House of Hecuba: Tragic/Queer Disidentifications of Color and the Siege of AIDS". Paper presented in Queer and The Classical: Critical Futures, Critical Feelings, Oxford, 2021.
  14. Baldwin, Oliver. "El renacimiento de la tragedia: Medea de Séneca en Mérida (1933)". Valencia, 2019.
  15. Baldwin, Oliver. "Con ritmo báquico: lo dionisíaco en la Medea de Séneca de 1933 en Mérida". Valladolid, 2019.
  16. Baldwin, Oliver. "Caudillo de España: Viriathus, Trajan, Franco". Lodz, 2019.
  17. Baldwin, Oliver. "Queer Medea: construction and deconstruction of the gendered self in Riaza's Medea is a good boy". London, 2018.
  18. Baldwin, Oliver. "Medea is a good boy: performing, staging and subverting mythical gender". Chapel Hill, 2018.
  19. Baldwin, Oliver. "¿Qué hay de heroico en todo eso?: La Ilíada de la Joven Compañía". Valencia, 2017.
  20. Baldwin, Oliver. "Seneca: A Spaniard in essence". Bonn, 2017.
  21. Baldwin, Oliver. "The theatre of conquest: the Spanish Empire, Medea and the New World". 2017.
  22. Baldwin, Oliver. "Senecan metatheatricality and performativity and the idea of human existence as theatre in Unamuno". Patras, 2016.
  23. Baldwin, Oliver. "“Nací para tener los ojos abiertos”. Gnosis y perspectiva trágica en La Casa de Bernarda Alba". Madrid, 2016.
Journal article
  1. "Medea is a Good Boy: performing, subverting, and unmasking tragic gender". Classical Receptions Journal 12 4 (2020): 486-501. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/claa012.
    10.1093/crj/claa012
  2. "‘A Spaniard in essence: Seneca and the Spanish Volksgeist’". International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2020): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12138-020-00571-2.
    10.1007/s12138-020-00571-2
  3. Baldwin, Oliver. "¿Qué hay de heroico en todo eso?: La Ilíada de La Joven Compañía". TYCHO 6 (2018): 7-20. https://www.uv.es/tycho/cas/06/baldwin.pdf.
    Open access • Published
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/02/27 LGBTQI+ History Month Public Lecture: ‘Queer Tragic Masks: LGBTQ History and Ancient Drama’
University of Reading (Reading, United Kingdom)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2023/07/06 - 2023/07/07 Tragedy Queered conference. the conference TRAGEDY QUEERED will explore the specific impact of Graeco-Roman tragedy on queer culture. The aim of the conference is to create a more focused understanding of the outcomes, benefits, stimulations and challenges of using Greek and Roman tragedy as a framework, channel and provocation in diverse queer cultural contexts and media. The papers in this conference will explore the uses and utilities of Greek and Roman tragic plays, their plots and/or characters to queer culture broadly defined. (2023/07/06 - 2023/07/07)
Conference (Other)
 University of Reading, United Kingdom
2020/11/18 - 2020/11/18 Being Human Café: Antic-queer-tea. A conversation about queer receptions of Greece and Rome with Katherine Harloe and Claudina Romero Mayorga (2020/11/18 - 2020/11/18)
Festival (Co-organisor)
 University of Reading, United Kingdom

University of London School of Advanced Study, United Kingdom

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/05/18 - 2022/05/18 Did they know? a conversation about queer, ancient and modern. Roundtable with D. Halperin, G. Sissa, C. Carastro, Oliver Baldwin and K. Merkley.
Round table
Gents Instituut voor Klassieke Studies , Belgium
2021/03/03 - 2021/03/03 Ure Museum/British Museum talk series Heroic beauty: Beautiful heroism
Seminar
University of Reading, United Kingdom

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2016/03/11 - 2016/03/12 Lorca, la Generación del 27 y los Clásicos Oliver Baldwin and Marina Solís de Ovando (at Fundación Pastor de Estudios Clásicos, Madrid)

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/01/01 - 2020/12/31 Consultant for the theatre production ENEIDA: Playlist para un continente a la deriva, by La Joven Compañía. Madrid (Spain). 2020-2021.
2015/09/01 - 2016/06/30 Consultant for the theatre production Proyecto Homero: Ilíada y Odisea, by La Joven Compañía. La Joven Compañía, Spain

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/01/01 - 2020/04/30 Preparation and delivery of lectures and seminars on Homer’s Odyssey. Lectures were in-depth commentaries on the poem, using text and visual aids. Seminars offered discussions on themes (e.g. Ithaca, The Supernatural, Women and The Hero). Tutoring, exam preparation and assessment of coursework. Advising on and marking the second-year projects on Homer. Homer-The Odyssey (Bachelor) Royal Holloway University of London, United Kingdom

Interview (tv / radio show)

Program Topic
2023/02/27 - 2023/02/27 BBC Berkshire LGBT Month History Lecture by Dr Oliver Baldwin
2022/01/01 - 2022/12/31 La Balada Perdida (2022) [documentary] Documentary

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2022/09/01 - 2023/06/01 How and Why Seneca has characterized Ulysses in his play Troades Josh Ison
Distinctions

Award

2023 Early Career Academic Prize
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
2020 British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship
The British Academy, United Kingdom
2019 Best Thesis Prize
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom