Research Interests

Latin language and literature, especially Republican and Augustan poetry

• Roman elegy and epic
• Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Propertius, Tibullus, and Ovid

Greek language and literature, especially Archaic and Hellenistic poetry

• Epic, lyric, and epigram
• Homer, Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theocritus

The ancient literary tradition

• Genre, aesthetics, and intertextuality

The concept of love in Roman poetry

• Tracing the development of a cultural concept

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Events                                

Publications and Works in Progress

Book in progress

Taking Love Seriously: Elegiac Love and Death in Aeneid 7–12.

Edited volume

Gwynaeth McIntyre and Sarah McCallum, eds. Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Myth and Culture. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Published articles and book chapters                                                        

“Nulla fabula tegenda: Ovid’s Elegiac Revision of Vergilian Allusion.” In Uncovering Anna Perenna: A Focused Study of Myth and Culture, edited by Gwynaeth McIntyre and Sarah McCallum, 19–36. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

“Ego sum pastor: Pastoral Transformations in the Tale of Mercury and Battus (Ov. Met. 2.676–707).” Classical Outlook 92.2 (2017): 29–34.

“Primus Pastor: The Origins of Pastoral Programme in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” In Roman Literary Cultures: Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle, edited by Alison Keith and Jonathan Edmondson, 124–39. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

“Heu Ligurine: Echoes of Vergil in Horace Odes 4.1.” Vergilius 61 (2015): 29–42.

“Elegiac Amor and Mors in Vergil’s ‘Italian Iliad’: A Case Study (Verg. Aen. 10.185–193).” Classical Quarterly 65.2 (2015): 693–703.