Background

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

Research interests

  • Early Greek poetry, esp. Homeric poetry and choral lyric
  • Comparative linguistics
  • Attic tragedy, esp. Aeschylus
  • Papyrology and epigraphy
  • Textual transmission and criticism
  • Ancient literary criticism
  • Vergil and Vergilian reception
  • Computing in the humanities

Papers and presentations

  • Translations of Greek in Mediterranean Passages: Readings from Dido to Derrida, UNC Press, forthcoming in 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

  • 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