Mitch Brown

Background

Mitch Brown's research interests include Greek and Roman drama, performance, and reception studies. He is the author of Menander and the Birth of Domestic Drama, which illuminates how Menander's particular form of dramaturgy allowed plots to focus more on household matters and, as a result, influenced Western theater into the early modern period and beyond. His current book project, still in its research phase, investigates the role of Greek and Latin language and literature in both the political and personal lives of Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson, George Wythe, and John Adams. 

In both his teaching and his research he strives to approach the Greek and Roman world not as a set of static objects and texts, but a dynamic space in which buildings, artwork, and writing affected and were affected by their various audiences.