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Tori McKee

Former doctoral student
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Dr Tori McKee studied for her first degree at Dartmouth College in the United States, and completed an MPhil in Greek and Latin Literature at Oriel College, Oxford (dissertation on the reception of Hippolytus in the twentieth century was supervised by Fiona Macintosh). Tori studied for her doctorate part-time at the Open University (supervisors: Lorna Hardwick, Joanna Paul and Fiona Macintosh) whilst pursuing a career in University Administration at the University of Cambridge. She is now Senior Tutor, Praelector and Director of Studies for Classics at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. Her research investigates thematic clusters in the reception of the Hippolytus and Phaedra myth, via three major source texts: Euripides' Hippolytus, Seneca's Phaedra and Racine's Phèdre. She analyses the three original texts as a collective whole, challenging the idea of a single 'source text'.  Her thesis looks at the reception of the myth across genre, including drama, dance, opera and film, with a particular focus on adaptation.