Research Interests

Imperial Latin Prose, Modern Critical Theory, Latin Palaeography

Education

2001 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA PhD in Classical Studies
Dissertation:" A Commentary on Apuleius' Florida: Carthaginian Orations"
1996 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA M.A. in Classical Studies
1992 American School of Classical Studies Athens, Greece Full Member
1991 Swarthmore College Swarthmore, PA B.A. with Distinction and the Major in Greek

Employment History

2002-present Oberlin College Oberlin, OH Visiting Assistant Professor Department of Classics
2001 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Lecturer Department of Classical Studies
1996-1999 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA Instructor Department of Classical Studies

Publications

2003 A Commentary on Apuleius' Florida Walter de Gruyter (Berlin) Texte und Kommentare.
2002 Bryn Mawr Classical Review Review of "Apuleius: Rhetorical Works," by Stephen Harrison, John Hilton, and Vincent Hunink (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2001).

Awards

1999, 2000 Salvatori Research Awards for Manuscript Study in Europe
1998-2000 A.W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship
1996-1998 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship for Graduate Study
1991 The Susan P. Cobbs Prize Fellowship for Study in Greece

Papers

2003 "Paraphrasis and the Apuliean Intertext," University of Colorado at Boulder Department of Classics
2002 "A grammar of the imagination: Tibullus 1.1 and Wallace Stevens' longer poems," Latin Literary Frontiers Panel, Classical Association of the Atlantic States (fall meeting).
2002 "Apuleius' parrot and the aesthetics of the Florida," U.C.L.A. Department of Classics.
2001 "The Physical form of Apuleius' Florida: from papyrus to codex," American Philological Association in San Diego

Teaching Experience
Oberlin College, 2002-2003

Classical Studies 210. The Rhetoric of Mythology: Beyond True and False.
Latin 301. Ovid's Heroides.
Latin 101-2. Introductory Latin.
Greek 202. Euripides' Bacchae.

University of Pennsylvania, 1996-2002

Classical Studies 200. Greek and Roman Mythology (Lecturer)
Latin 204. Introduction to Latin Love Elegy: Tibullus, Propertius, Ovid.
Latin 203. Readings in Latin Prose: Cicero's Pro Archia.
Latin 203. Readings in Latin Prose: Cicero's Pro Caelio.
Latin 102. Elementary Latin: Introductory College Latin.
Latin 111-112. Intensive Elementary Latin.
Greek 309. Topics in Greek Literature: Hellenistic Poetry.
Greek 204. Intermediate Greek Poetry: The Iliad.
Greek 111-112. Intensive Elementary Classical Greek.

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