Department of Classical Studies

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

My principal research concerns genre and intertextuality in Latin poetry, especially of the Augustan period. My current book project, Non-Lyric Voices in Horace’s Odes: The Poetics of Disguise and Infiltration, considers Horace’s positioning with respect to non-lyric genres in his first collection of Odes and examines how this generic dialogue responds to the socio-cultural situation in the wake of Rome’s civil wars. I am also interested in the afterlives of Augustan poetry and have undertaken side projects on Ausonius’ (4^th cent. CE) reuse of Virgil and Ovid and the role that Virgil and Horace played as models for translators in 17^th century England.