Experiencing Immersion in Antiquity and Modernity: From Narrative to Virtual Reality

Explores the connection between immersive experiences in ancient literature and culture and immersive classical receptions in modernity.

Emma Cole is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Australian Research Council’s (ARC) Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Senior Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia. A classicist and theatre historian, she specialises in Greek tragedy in contemporary theatre. She is author of Punchdrunk on the Classics (2024)and Postdramatic Tragedies (2020).