Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Undergraduate Chair
Education:
- PhD, Classics, University of California, Berkeley, 2002
- Master of Arts, Greek, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
- Bachelor of Arts, Classics and Linguistics, University
of Canterbury, 1994
Research and teaching interests:
- Imperial Latin literature
- Roman culture
- Ancient philosophy
- Reception studies
Selected publications:
- “Nundinae: The Culture of the Roman Week,” Phoenix 64 (2010) 360-85
- The Deaths of Seneca (Oxford University Press, 2009)
- A Seneca Reader: Selections from Prose and Tragedy (Bolhchazy-Carducci, 2011)
- Elizabethan Seneca: Three Tragedies, coedited with Jessica Winston, Modern Humanities Research Association Tudor & Stuart Translations, vol. 8 (London, 2012)
Work in progress:
The Beginnings of a Day in Ancient Rome (book-length project)
Recent courses:
- Undergraduate
- Technologies of the Mind in the Greco-Roman World
- Seneca
- Authors and Audiences in the Greek and Roman World
- Graduate
- Consolation and Ancient Philosophy
- Progress and Decline in Latin Literature
Other professional activity:
Series co-editor (with Emily Mackil), Social Structures of the Greek and Roman World (Johns Hopkins University Press)
