Biography
I teach a broad range of language and literature options to undergraduates across Latin and Greek, focusing especially on the most popular Greek literature papers: Homer’s Iliad, Greek Core, Early Greek Hexameter Poetry, Greek Tragedy, and Hellenistic Poetry. I also supervise graduate students and offer text-based graduate seminars in Greek and Latin Literature and their reception (including series on ‘Puzzle Poetry’ and ‘the Underworld’).
My research spans widely across Greek and Latin literature, focused on questions of politics, aesthetics and intertextuality. I’m particularly interested in rethinking traditional narratives of literary history, reflected in the two main strands of my current research: first, I explore the (dis)continuities between the intertextual practices of archaic/classical poets and those of later literary cultures; and second, I unearth the distinctive aesthetics and priorities of Hellenistic poets located beyond Ptolemaic Alexandria and the impact of these alternative poetic traditions at Rome, drawing particularly on the evidence of papyri, inscriptions and other fragments.
My first book (Markers of Allusion in Archaic Greek Poetry) was published in 2023 with Cambridge University Press. I am now writing a Cambridge Element on Intertextuality and the Myths of Greek Tragedy and pursuing a larger project on Hellenistic epic fragments. I’m also in the final stages of co-editing three volumes: on Hellenistic aesthetics, collaboration in ancient literature, and Pergamon’s influence at Rome. For a full list of my publications, please see my Faculty webpage and personal website.
Positions
- Career Development Fellow in Ancient Greek
Subjects
- Classics
Associations
