Areas of Expertise

• Greek and Latin literature, especially the Greek Prose
• Ancient Multilingualism in both reality and literary representation
• Classical Linguistics
• Modern Performance of Ancient Drama and Classical Reception in American Drama

2017-2018 Courses

Fall 2017 (in Orvieto, Italy as part of the "Legendary Legacies" study abroad program)

• CLAS 160D2 - Classical Mythology 
• CLAS 220 and 221- The Classical Tradition I and II

Spring 2018 

• CLAS 160D2 - Classical Mythology (Hybrid/Flipped)
• CLAS 346 - Ancient Greek Drama
• GRK 430/530 - Readings in Greek Historians

Summer 2018

• Greek 112 - Elementary Ancient Greek (Fully Online)

Education

• Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles (2012)
  • Dissertation: "Cross-Language Communication in Helidorus' Aethiopica"
    • David Blank (Chair), Mario Teló, Brent Vine, Jacco Dieleman
• M.A, Classics, University of California, Los Angeles (2007)
• Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Classics, Unviersity of California Los Angeles (2005)
• B.S., Classics, University of Wisconsin, Madison (2002)

Presentations

• 2017   "Classics in the 21st Century" (3-day Lecture Series), Dorrance Scholarship Program Summer Bridge Experience, Flagstaff
• 2017   “Next to Normal: An Interior Oresteia”, CAMWS, Kitchener.
• 2016    "Glossed in Translation: Some Mulitilingual Moments in Greek Literature," Centro Studi Città di Orvieto, Orvieto, Italy.
• 2016    "What is Classics? (5-day Lecture Series)", Dorrance Scholarship Program Summer Bridge Experience, Flagstaff
• 2015    "The Semantic Evolution of δίγλωσσος", SCS, New Orleans.
• 2014    "Cassandra Barbarophonos, Aeschylus at the Language Barrier", CAMWS, Waco.
• 2013    "Teaching Heliodorus in the Greek Civilization Course”, CAMWS, Iowa City.
• 2012    “Statue to Story: Ovid's Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus”, APA, Philadelphia.
• 2010    “Women, Sex, Bilingualism, and the Aethiopica”, APA, Philadelphia.
• 2009    “Heliodorus and Ancient Bilingualism: Fiction and Facts”, Ancient Cultures in Contact: Catalysts for Change, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Conference.
• 2008    Panel Respondent, Reconstructing Paternity in the Ancient World, University of California, Los Angeles, Graduate Conference.
• 2008    “Papyrus Stanford Greek Green 8”, American Society of Papyrologists Summer Program,  Stanford University.
• 2007    “The Librarian and the Shaman: Making Sense of Apollonius's Allusions to Empedocles”, CAMWS, Cincinnati.

Publications

• Article: “From Statue to Story: Ovid's Metamorphosis of Hermaphroditus”, Classical World 109.3 (2016).

Publications in Progress

• Textbook in Progress: "A Greek Novel Reader"
• Article: "Linguistic Chastity in Heliodorus' Aethiopica" (Revising for Ancient Narrative)
• Article: “P. Stanford Green Greek 8” (forthcoming in Papyrologica Bruxellensia)
• Monograph in Progress: "Cross-Language Communication in the Greek and Roman Novels" 

Thesis Committees

M.A. Thesis, Committee Chair:

• “Mythic Claims to Territory in the Megarid” (B. Winnick, 2015)
• “On Misconceptions Generated by Translating Parrhesia and Isegoria as ‘Freedom of Speech’" (G. Lu, 2017)

M.A. Theses, Committee Member:

• “Rhetoric in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Plato’s Phaedrus” (V. Ganesan, 2014)
• “Towards an Understanding of Herodotean ἱστορίη” (L. Green, 2015)
• “The Larnax and the Tree: Daphnis, Adonis, Meleager and Osiris in Myths of Death and Rebirth” (J. Muñoz, 2015)
• “The Euripidean Prologue” (J. Geach, 2016)
• “A Comparison of the Works of Latin Literature That Influenced British and American Political Figures Between 1700 and 1825” (I. Merrill, 2016)
•  “Roman Pederastic Poetry: The Problem of the Puer Delicatus” (L. Harvey, 2017)

Links

• Current CV