Department of Classical Studies

• Roman Literary and Cultural History
• Latin Lyric and Epic
• Genre, Intertextuality, and Reception

My research centers on genre, intertextuality, and metapoetics in Latin poetry, especially of the Augustan period. In my forthcoming book, Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace’s Odes: The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration (University of Michigan Press, 2026), I consider Horace’s positioning with respect to non-lyric genres in his first collection of Odes and examine how this generic program responds to the cultural climate in the wake of Rome’s civil wars. I have also published articles on Virgil, Ovid, Lucan, and Statius. Topics include the erotics of Turnus' pursuit of the phantom in Aeneid 10; the language of disease in the scene of the Sibyl's inspiration in Aeneid 6; volcanic activity as a metaphor for epic composition in Statius; and a possible signature hidden in the opening lines of Lucan's Bellum Civile. I am interested in the reception of Augustan poetry and have done work on Ausonius’ (4th cent. CE) reuse of Virgil and Ovid and on the role that Virgil and Horace played as models for translators in 17th century England.

Non-Lyric and Lyric in Horace’s Odes: The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration. University of Michigan Press. Forthcoming 2026.

“Obvia Signis Signa: A Signature in the Proem to Lucan’s Bellum Civile?” Classical Quarterly. Forthcoming 2025.

“Love and theft: Cupid, stolen feet, and the elegizing of epic in Amores 1,1 and the Aeneid.” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 93 (2024): 161-66.

“The Volcanic Poetics of Statius’ Thebaid.” Phoenix 77 (2023): 63-85.

“Ovidian Ghosts in Ausonius’ Mourning Fields: Reading Vergil through Ovid in the Cupido Cruciatus.” In Vergil and Elegy, eds. Alison Keith and Micah Myers, 333-50. UToronto Press 2023.

“Hollow Love: Discourses of Desire and Delusion in Turnus’ Pursuit of the Phantom in Aeneid 10.” Classical Philology 117 (2022): 682-705.

“The Diseased Breath of Inspiration: Sickness and the Sibyl in Aeneid 6.” TAPA 151 (2022): 211-42.

“Putting the Wolf to Flight: Horace’s Disavowal and Deployment of Invective in C. 1.13-16 and C. 1.22.” American Journal of Philology 138: 641-72.