Department of Classical Studies
Ph.D. (Classics) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1983
A.B. (Classics) Bowdoin College, 1977
After receiving my PhD, I came to Penn as a Lecturer in 1984, and I have been here ever since. Over the past thirty years, I have offered courses, lectured, and published books and articles on topics that range from Homer and Vergil to Ridley Scott and Silvio Berlusconi. This semester (fall 2016) I am teaching a graduate seminar on the archaic Roman poet Quintus Ennius. My current research projects include a book, Juno's Aeneid: Narrative, Metapoetics, Dissent, a series of studies of the literature of the Roman suburbium, articles on the relationship between scholarly and literary production in antiquity, and a new history of classical Greek and Latin literature.
Latin literature, especially poetry
Culture of the Republican and Augustan periods
Vergil, Aeneid 5, Focus Vergil Aeneid commentaries (2014, in press)
Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic, ed. with Damien P. Nelis (2013)
A Companion to Vergil's Aeneid and its Tradition, ed. with Michael C. J. Putnam (2010)
The Vergilian Century, ed. (special issue of Vergilius, vol. 47, 2001)
Latin Language and Latin Culture (2001)
Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald, ed. with Ralph M. Rosen (1994)
(undergraduate) Vergil, Eclogues; Passion of SS Perpetua and Felicity; Latin Elegiac Poetry; Visions of Rome; The Greek and Roman Universe
(graduate) Vergil, Aeneid; Early Roman Epic; The Argonaut Myth in Roman Poetry; Horace; History of Latin Literature
Society for Classical Studies
Vergilian Society of North America
Association of Literary Scholars and Writers
