I received my B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Pennsylvania (1992) and my Ph.D. in Classics 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.
My teaching covers language courses, mostly Latin, at the beginning, intermediate, and advanced undergraduate levels, 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).
My primary area of research is Roman epic in the Flavian period, but my interests extend to poetry of the Augustan and Neronian periods as well. My research is currently focused on the reception of Ovid in Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica. I am also a contributing editor (Latin & Greek texts) for Vetusta Monumenta: Ancient Monuments, A Digital Edition.
Office Hours
Mondays and Thursdays 2:00 - 3:00 pm
Roman Epic; Flavian Literature; Reception of Ovid
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 Domitian's Rome and the Augustan Legacy, co-editor with M. Mogetta. University of Michigan Press.
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.
2018 "Sparsis Mauors agitatus in oris: Lucan and Civil War in Punica 14," in L.D. Ginsberg and D.A. Krasne, eds., After 69 CE - Writing Civil War in Flavian Rome. Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 51-67.
2017 “Off the Beaten Path: Generic Conflict and Narrative Delay in Punica 14,” The Classical Journal: 112.4: pp. 461-493.
2017 “Silius, Sicily, and the Poetics of Generic Conflict: Punica 14.208-217,” in F. Bessone and M. Fucecchi, eds., Literary Genres in the Flavian Age: Canons, Transformations, Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 268-282.
2017 “A Medial Proem and the Macrostructures of the Punica,” in C. Schmitz, ed., Anfänge und Enden. Narrative Potentiale des antiken und nachantiken Epos. Heidelberg: Winter Verlag: pp. 277-291.
2016 “Per Vulnera Regnum: Self-Destruction, Self-Sacrifice and Devotio in Silius’ Punica 4-10,” in A. Augoustakis, ed., Flavian Epic. Oxford Readings in Classical Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press: pp. 408-433.
2014 “Nosces Fabios certamine ab uno: The Tale of the Three Hundred Fabii in Punica 7,” Illinois Classical Studies 39: pp. 139-169.
2014 “Statio-Silian Relations in the Thebaid and Punica 1-2,” Classical Philology 109.2: 130-139.
2013 “The Thebaid and the Fall of Saguntum in Punica 2,” in G. Manuwald and A. Voigt, eds., Flavian Epic Interactions. Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 297-310.
2013 “Reconcilable Differences: Anna Perenna and the Battle of Cannae in the Punica,” in A. Augoustakis, ed., Ritual and Religion in Flavian Epic. Oxford: Oxford University Press: pp. 287-301.
2010 “Julius Caesar in Domitianic Poetry,” in N. Kramer and C. Reitz, eds., Tradition und Erneuerung: Mediale Strategien in der Zeit der Flavier. Berlin: De Gruyter: pp. 13-39.
2010 “Lucan’s Curio in the Punica,” in F. Schaffenrath, ed., Silius Italicus. Akten der Innsbrucker Tagung vom 19.-21. Juni 2008. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, vol. 164. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang: pp. 29-46.
2010 “Silius and Lucan,” in A. Augoustakis, ed., Brill’s Companion to Silius Italicus. Leiden: Brill: pp. 127-153.
2010 “The Song and the Sword: Silius’s Punica and the Crisis of Early Imperial Epic,” in D. Konstan and K. Raaflaub, eds., Epic and History. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 185-211.
2008 “Augustus and I: Horace and ‘Horatian’ Identity in Odes 3.14,” American Journal of Philology 129.1: pp. 77-100.
2008 “Getting Ahead: Decapitation as Political Metaphor in Silius Italicus’ Punica,” Mnemosyne 61.1: pp. 66-88.
2006 “En, reddo tua tela tibi: Crista and Sons in Silius, Pun. X, 92-169,” Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History XIII. Collection Latomus 301: pp. 390-404.
2005 From Republic to Empire: Scipio Africanus in the Punica of Silius Italicus. Studien zur klassischen Philologie, vol. 152. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
2005 “Silius Italicus,” in J.M. Foley, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Epic. Oxford: Blackwell: pp. 528-537.
2005 “Per Vulnera Regnum: Self-Destruction, Self-Sacrifice, and Devotio in Punica 4-10,” Ramus: Critical Studies in Greek and Roman Literature 34.2: pp. 127-151.
2004 “Of Kings, Crowns, and Boundary Stones: Cipus and the Hasta Romuli in Metamorphoses 15,” Transactions of the American Philological Association 134.1: pp. 107-131.
2003 “Hannibal in Liternum,” in P. Thibodeau and H. Haskell, eds., Being There Together: Essays in Honor of Michael C.J. Putnam on the Occasion of his Seventieth Birthday. Afton: Afton Historical Society Press: pp. 128-144.