Associate Professor of Classical Studies and Graduate Chair; Graduate Chair of Classical Studies
Education:
- FAAR 2006-2007
- PhD, Classics and Comparative Literature, Yale University, 2001
- Master of Philosophy, English Renaissance Literature,
Corpus Christi College Oxford, 1996 - Bachelor of Arts, Literae Humaniores, Classical Literature
and Philosophy, Balliol College Oxford, 1994
Research and teaching interests:
- Tragedy
- Poetics and literary theory
- Literature and philosophy
- Reception of classical literature, especially in the Renaissance
- Gender
- Genre
Selected publications:
- Classics editor, third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature (2012)
- Six Tragedies of Seneca. Translation, with introduction and notes. Oxford World's Classics (2010)
- The Death of Socrates: Hero, Villain, Chatterbox, Saint (2007.
- Mocked with Death: Tragic Overliving from Sophocles to Milton (2004), recipient of the Charles Bernheimer Prize of the American Comparative Literature Association, 2003
Work in progress:
- Translations of three tragedies of Euripides, Modern Greek Library (Random House)
- Odyssey: Translation of the poem, for Norton
- Book project on Seneca: Penguin and OUP
Recent courses:
- Undergraduate
- Classical Traditions
- Aeschylus and Herodotus
- Roman Comedy
- Tragedy and the Tragic
- The Ancient Novel
- Graduate
- Lucretius
- Latin Elegy
- Sophocles
- Greek Prose
- The Ancient Novel
- Translation
