I received my B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and my Ph.D. from Brown University (1999). Before coming to Missouri, I spent a year as a D.A.A.D. Research grant recipient at Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg, Germany (1997-1998) and was a Visiting Lecturer in Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania (1999-2000). I have been at MU since 2000.
• Ph.D. Classics, Brown University, 1999
• B.A. Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, 1992
My primary area of research is Roman epic of the Flavian period, but my interests extend to poetry of the Augustan and Neronian periods as well. Recently, my research has been focused on the reception of Ovid in Flavian epic, Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica and Silius Italicus' Punica, in particular. I am currently working on a commentary of Punica 14 and a collection of translations of early American Latin poetry. I am also a contributing editor (Latin & Greek texts) to Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, A Digital Edition.
My language teaching covers courses, mostly in Latin, at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels. A particular pedagogical interest of mine is to help Latin students develop a reliable and effective "left-to-right" reading approach to the language. I also regularly teach in-translation courses on Greek and Roman topics, including AMS 2100: The Ancient Greeks and AMS 2200: The Ancient Romans, and graduate courses, including seminars on post-Augustan epic (Lucan, Valerius Flaccus, Statius, Silius Italicus).
Books
2024 Transgressive Heroism: Gender, Genre, and Ovid in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 175. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
2024 Off the Beaten Path: Ovidian Journeys in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes, vol. 161. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter.
2021 Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan Legacy, co-edited with M. Mogetta. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
2005 From Republic to Empire: Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, vol. 152. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Articles and Chapters
2023 "Of Philosophers, Crowns, and Boundary Stones: Revisiting Cipus in Metamorphoses 15," Dictynna 20.
2022 "Silius and Ovid's Roman History," in A. Augoustakis and M. Fucecchi, eds., Silius Italicus and the Tradition of the Roman Historical Epos. Leiden: Brill: pp. 77-102.
2021 "Introduction" (with M. Mogetta), in Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy: pp. 1-12.
2020 "Searching for Ovid at Cannae: A Contribution to the Reception of Ovid in Silius Italicus' Punica," in N. Coffee, C. Forstall, L. Galli Milić, and D. Nelis, eds., Intertextuality in Flavian Epic Poetry: Contemporary Approaches. Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 87-106.
2019 "Fides, Pietas, and the Outbreak of Hostilities in Punica 1," in A. Augoustakis, E. Buckley, and C. Stocks, eds., Fides in Flavian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press: pp. 171-186.