Background

Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Classics, Stanford University

  • aftosmis .at. stanford .dot. edu
  • Department of Classics
    Bldg. 110, MC: 2145
    Stanford University
    Stanford, CA, 94305-2145

Research interests

  • Early Greek poetry, esp. Homeric and Hesiodic poetry
  • Comparative linguistics
  • Linguistic anthropology
  • Ancient literary criticism
  • Papyrology, epigraphy, and textual criticism
  • Callimachus
  • Attic tragedy, esp. Aeschylus
  • Vergil and Vergilian reception
  • Computing in the humanities

Papers and presentations

  • Rhetoric and Truth: Ps.-Longinus on Sappho, Socrates on Agathon, APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2009
  • Langauge and Identity in Callimachus' Aetia, Local Identities Conference, UC Berkeley, November 2008
  • Translations of Greek in Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida, UNC Press, 2008.
  • Toward the Greek Actor, Philosophical Stages, Stanford Univsersity, 12 June 2006
  • Ethos of the Elders: Receptions of the Chorus in the Antigones, Translation and Transformations Workshop, Stanford University, 30 November 2005
  • Callimachus Colonist: Κτίσις & Κρίσις in the Aetia, Department of Classics Colloquium Series, Stanford University, 11 May 2005

Past courses and programs taught

  • CLASSLAT 10. Intensive Beginning Latin, Summer 2008, Stanford [instructor]
  • Philosophical Stages, Stanford Humanities Lab, Summer 2007
  • CLASSLAT 103. Intermediate Latin: Vergil, Spring 2007, Stanford [instructor, site]
  • CLASSGEN 176. Majors Seminar: Desire in Antiquity, Winter 2007, Stanford [writing instructor]
  • CLASSGEN 32. New Atlantis: Greek Ideas and American Culture, Spring 2006, Stanford [teaching assistant]
  • CLASSGRK 102. Intermediate Greek: Tragedy (Antigone), Winter 2006 [instructor, site]

Computing projects