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Malika Bastin Hammou

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Malika Bastin-Hammou is Professor of Greek at Université Grenoble-Alpes where she teaches Ancient Greek and Reception studies. Prior to that she taught at the Université de Toulouse. She was trained both in Classics and French Literature at the École Normale Supérieure. Her main research interests lie in Greek Drama and its Reception.

Her PhD thesis, Le Monde du théâtre chez Aristophane (2002), dealt with metatheatre and reflexivity in Aristophanes’ comedies, and her Habilitation thesis, Traduire Aristophane en France - XVIe-XVIIIe s., (2015), with editions and translations of Aristophanes in Early Modern France.

She has translated both tragedies and comedies for the stage and collaborated with several stage-directors. She is co-editor of the série Lire l'Antiquité (UGA Editions).

Her current project deals with Early Modern Reception of Aristophanes, especially through the study of paratexts. Further details  and a list of publications can be found here.

Selected publications

Malika is the author of “How Can We Digitally Investigate Reflections on Translation in the Paratexts of Sixteenth-Century Editions and Translations of Ancient Drama?”. In: Brown, H., Toepfer, R., Wesche, J. (eds) Early Modern Translation and the Digital Humanities. Übersetzungskulturen der Frühen Neuzeit, vol 8. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-70483-7_4. With Cécile Dudouyt, Giovanna di Martino and Lucy Jackson she has co-edited Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe. Theory and Practice (1400-1600), De Gruyter, 2023.