Classics & Archaeology

Education

• 2003 Ph.D., Classics, University of Washington, Seattle

• 1998 M.A., Classics, University of Washington, Seattle

• 1995 B.A., Classics with Honors, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

Dissertation

• “Gods and Humans in Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Constructions of Identity and the Politics of Status”

Director: Stephen E. Hinds; Readers: Catherine M. Connors, Alain M. Gowing

Primary Research Interests

• Latin Poetry

• Roman Topography and Epigraphy

• Greek Epic Poetry

Current Projects

• Collaboration with Matthew Fox: translation and commentary of Lucan’s Civil War (Penguin)

• Monograph on the poetics of Lucan’s Civil War

• Articles on Ennius, Ovid and Calpurnius Siculus

Employment

• 2005-present Assistant Professor, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA

• 2004-2005 Assistant Professor, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome

• 2003-2004 Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA

• 1996-2003 Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle

Teaching Experience

• CLCV 452: Women and Sexuality in Antiquity Autumn 2006

• Latin 323: Roman Epistolography Autumn 2006

• CLCV 210: Greek Tragedy in Translation Spring 2006

• Latin 411: Ovid's Metamorphoses Spring 2006 

• CLCV 398: Roman Civilization Autumn 2005

• Latin 201: Intermediate Latin Autumn 2005

• Latin 101/102: Elementary Latin Autumn and Spring 2005-2006

• CLST 148: The Ancient Roman City Autumn 2004, Spring 2005 (in Rome)

• Latin 102A: Advanced Latin: Augustan Aetiologies Autumn 2004, Spring 2005 (in Rome)

• Latin 63A: Intermediate Latin: Livy, Book 1 Spring 2005

• Latin 315: Readings in Latin Autumn 2003

• Elementary Latin 101 and 102 Autumn 2003, Spring 2004 (2 sections)

• Classics 428: Greek and Roman Comedy in English Summer 2003

• Classics 427: Greek and Roman Tragedy in English Spring 2003

• Classics 424: The Epic Tradition Summer 2002

• Intensive Elementary Greek 301 and 102 Winter 2002, Summer 1996

• Classics 210: Greek and Roman Classics in English Spring 2000, Autumn 1999

• Latin 307: Vergil’s Aeneid Spring 1998 (in Rome)

• Elementary and Intensive Latin 101, 102, and 103 Autumn 1996-Spring 2001 (13 sections)

Conference Papers

• Apr. 2006 Fragmentary Latin Poets: The Aesthetics of Funerary Inscriptions

California Classical Association-South, California State University, Long Beach

• Apr. 2006 Lucan's Clash of the Titans

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Gainseville, Florida

• Mar. 2006 The Pharsalia Before Lucan

Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Reed College, Portland, Oregon 

• Apr. 2004 Fishing with Ovid

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, Missouri

• Mar. 2004 Competitive Song in the Eclogues of Vergil and Calpurnius Siculus

Classical Association of the Canadian West, Winnipeg, Manitoba

• Feb. 2004 Outlawed Poems and Outlaw Poets: Gallus and Vergil in Ovid’s Exile Poetry

Admit the Outlaw, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

• Jan. 2004 Poetic Flights: The Travels of Phaethon, Daedalus, and Pythagoras in Ovid

APA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California

• Mar. 2003 Fragmentary Latin Poets: Epigraphy and the Poetics of Epitaphs

Classical Association of the Canadian West, University of Calgary

• Nov. 2002 Constructions of Identity in Ovid’s Dramatic Monologues

Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, Western Washington University

• May 2002 Constructions of Human and Divine Identity in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 1

Classical Association of Canada, University of British Columbia

• Mar. 2002 The Poetics of Cosmology in Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, University of Oregon

Invited Lecture

• Apr. 2004 The Fall(s) of Troy

Holy Cross Classics Day, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts

Departmental Service

• 2006-present Faculty Moderator, Eta Sigma Phi (Society for Students of Classical Studies)

• 2003-04 Departmental Liaison, Teacher Certification Program, College of the Holy Cross

Awards

• 2002 Humanities Dissertation Fellow, University of Washington, Seattle