Professor of Classical Studies; Rose Family Endowed Term Professor; Associate Dean, Graduate Studies
Education:
- PhD, Classical Philology, Harvard University, 1983
- Bachelor of Arts, Greek and Latin, Swarthmore College, 1977
Research and teaching interests:
- Greek literature and intellectual history
- Ancient comic and satirical poetic genres
- Ancient medicine
Selected publications:
- Making Mockery: The Poetics of Ancient Satire (Oxford U. Press, 2007)
- Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition (APA American Classical Studies 19, 1988)
Work in progress:
- Various projects on Hippocrates, Galen, Aristophanes and Old Comedy
Other professional activity:
- Cofounder and sometime Director of Penn's Center for Ancient Studies, 1996-present
- Coorganizer (with Ineke Sluiter, Professor of Greek at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands) of the biennial Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values, 2000–2011
- Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, School of Arts and Sciences (2008-11)
