Employment History
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Associate Professor, 2006—present
Assistant Professor, 2000—2006Emory University
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1999—2000
Education
Harvard University, Ph.D. in Classical Philology, November 1999
Dissertation
Pastoral Voices: Speech and Writing from Theocritus to Virgil
(pp. vi + 320, Richard Thomas, adviser)
Summary in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 516-17
Emory University, B.A. in Classics with highest honors, May 1994
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer Session 1993
Research and Publications
Books Pastoral Inscriptions: Reading and Writing Virgil's Eclogues (London, 2006).
With Andreola Rossi (eds.), Ennius and the Invention of Roman Epic = Arethusa 39.3 (Fall 2006). Articles and Chapters in Books
"Odysseus Back Home and Back from the Dead," in Nine Essays on Homer, ed. M. Carlisle and O. Levaniouk (Lanham, MD 1999) 137–61.
"Imitations of Originality: Theocritus and Lucretius at the Start of the Eclogues," Vergilius 46 (2000) 3–20.
"Portrait of a Lady: Propertius 1.3 and Ecphrasis," Classical Journal 99 (2003) 35–56.
"Time and Textuality in the Book of the Eclogues," in Brill's Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, ed. M. Fantuzzi and T. Papanghelis (Leiden, 2006) 333–67.
"Inscribing Dialogue in Pastoral Poetics and Criticism," in Pastoral and the Humanities: Arcadia Re-Inscribed, ed. M. Skoie and S. Velázquez (Exeter, 2006) 89–100.
Book Introductions
With Andreola Rossi, "Introduction: Ennius and the Traditions of Epic," for Ennius and the Invention of Roman Epic, Arethusa 39 (2006) 397-425.
"Introduction to the Eclogues," in Conington’s Virgil: Eclogues (Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007) XVII–XXXIX.
Book Reviews
Review of S.J. Harrison, Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (Oxford 2007), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.03.32.
Review of J. Reed, Virgil's Gaze: Nation and Poetry in the Aeneid (Princeton 2007), New England Classical Journal 34 (2007) 265–7.
Review of J. Walker, Rhetoric and Poetics in Antiquity (Oxford 2000), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.03.16.
Review of Harder, Regtuit, and Wakker, eds., Theocritus: Hellenistica Groningana 2, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8 (1997) 628-33.