Office Hours
WF 12-1:00
Education
Ph.D. (Classics) University of Wisconsin at Madison, 1996
B.A. (Classics) Carleton College, 1987
Research Interests
Greek and Latin literature, especially Hellenistic poetry
Courses Taught
(undergraduate) Elementary and Intermediate Greek
(post-baccalaureate) Euripides, Aristophanes, Homeric and Callimachean hymns, didactic poetry, Lucretius, Roman comedy, and the Argo myth
Selected Publications
"The poetics of Aethalides: silence and poikilia in Apollonius' Argonautica," CQ 48 (1998) 456-469.
"Unstable Geographies: The Moving Landscape in Apollonius' Argonautica and Callimachus' Hymn to Delos" TAPhA 130 (2000) 287-317
CV (file)
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