Research Interests

Latin language and literature, especially poetry of the late Republic and Augustan age

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

Greek language and literature, especially poetry from Homer to the Hellenistic period

• Epic and epigram
• Homer, Hesiod, and Theocritus

The ancient literary tradition

• Genre, aesthetics, and intertextuality

The concept of love in Roman poetry

• Tracing the development of a cultural concept

Fall 2018 Courses                                

Intermediate Classical Greek I (GRK 201)

Prose of the Roman Republic (LAT 400) 

Spring 2019 Courses                                

Classics Through the Ages (CLAS 220)

Latin Readings (LAT 401/501)

Publications and Works in Progress

Book in progress

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

Published articles and book chapters                                                        

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

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

“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. University of Toronto Press, 2016.

“Nulla fabula tegenda: Ovid’s Elegiac Revision of Vergilian Allusion.” In Uncovering Anna Perenna: Interdiscplinary Approaches to Roman Myth and History, edited by Sarah McCallum and Gwynaeth McIntyre. Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming.

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

Edited volume

Sarah McCallum and Gwynaeth McIntyre, eds. Uncovering Anna Perenna: Interdiscplinary Approaches to Roman Myth and History. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic. Forthcoming.