Phd (University of Nottingham, 2009)
lynn.kozak [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Lynn Kozak works on archaic and classical ancient Greek literature, as well as its receptions, translations, and comparisons with contemporary texts. After their monograph, , released in 2016 with Bloomsbury Academic (open-access ) compared the Iliad's serial poetics to those of contemporary North American narrative television, they have also continued to work in television and media studies, with interests in horror, queer studies, and poetics.听They are a member of the FQRSC-funded horror research team , an associate editor of the journal ,听and they serve on boards of editors for听journals听听and听听as well as for the book series for University of Edinburgh Press.听
Recent publications (since 2018) include the co-edited volume with Miranda Hickman, the edited volume , and articles and book chapters on , , , , , (with ), , , , (with ), , and .
Prof. Kozak is the organiser of the annual 九色视频 Classics Play, a member of the. They are also the co-founder and co-artistic director (with Carina de Klerk) of , providing many students with mentorship and creative opportunities to work with Classical texts and performance within the broader Montreal performance community.
Recent creative collaborations include literal translations of Hrosvitha's 听(NYC Fringe 2024), Sophocles' (Centaur Theatre Brave New Looks Selection, 2017) and Aristophanes' Birds for . They are currently collaborating with Scapegoat Carnivale on adapting Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War into a performance piece.听
Recent and upcoming performance-translations include听Ephemer-illz听(with Carina de Klerk, 2025 Montreal Fringe Festival)听and听Homeric Death Match听(with Tom Giles, Theatre-Ste-Catherine, as part of the 2025 Festival du Conte, October 25, 2025).
From January-August 2018, Kozak translated and performed the whole Iliad in weekly serial instalments, as part of an FRQSC-funded project ; all performances are available to view on . They also performed a version of the Apologoi from the Odyssey as part of the 2019 .
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