• Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1996
• J.D., University of Michigan, 1991
• M.A., Princeton University, 1988
• B.A., University of Michigan 1985

• Tennessee Humanities Center Fellowship, 2013-14
• UT Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, 2010
• Phi Beta Kappa, Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, Mellon Dissertation Grant

Books

• Nach(t)dichtungen. Littoral Press, 2018.
• Plant of a Strange Vine: Oratio Corrupta and the Poetics of Senecan Tragedy. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde 363, Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2017.
• The Taste for Nothingness: A Study of Virtus and Related Themes in Lucan’s Bellum Civile. University of Michigan Press, 2003.

Book Chapter

• “Lucan the Formalist.” In Brill’s Companion to Lucan, ed. Paolo Asso. Leiden and Boston 2011, 317-326.

Articles and Reviews

• “Poetic Autobiography and Literary Polemic in Catullus 16,” Paideia 73 (2018), forthcoming.
• Review of Antje Wessels, Ästhetisierung und ästhetische Erfahrung von Gewalt: Eine Untersuchung zu Senecas Tragödien (Heidelberg 2014), Gnomon 88 (2016) 512-514.
• Review of Henry J.M. Day, Lucan and the Sublime: Power, Representation and Aesthetic Experience (Cambridge and New York 2013), CP 110 (2015) 179-184.
• “Sopor y ebriedad: puntos de contacto entre Eneida 9 y Eneida 2,” Auster 18 (2013) 7-13. (Translated from the English by M. Vizzotti and P. Martínez Astorino)
• Review of Lee Fratantuono, Madness Triumphant: a Reading of Lucan’s Pharsalia (Lanham, MD 2012), BMCR 2013 (unpaginated).
• Review of Paul Roche, Lucan: De Bello Civili Book 1, Edited with Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Oxford 2009), Gnomon 83 (2011) 174-175.
• “Sappho Boemica: A Reading of Jaroslav Vrchlický’s ‘Sapfó’,” Kosmas: Czechoslovak and Central European Journal 22.2 (2009) 103-110.
• Review of Francesca D’Alessandro Behr, Feeling History: Lucan, Stoicism, and the Poetics of Passion (Columbus 2007), CJ 104.1 (2008) 80-82.
• “Anti-Petronian Elements in The Great Gatsby,” The F. Scott Fitzgerald Review 6 (2007-08) 121-128.
• “Seneca, Oedipus 980-994: How Stoic a Chorus?” CJ 103.2 (2007-08) 183-195.
• “How to Dress (for) an Epyllion: The Fabrics of Catullus 64,” Hermes 134 (2006) 385-397.
• “Ausonius’s Elegiac Wife: Epigram 20 and the Traditions of Latin Love Poetry,” CJ 101 (2005) 51-62.
• “Sources and Individuality in Two Passages of Livy,” Historia 53 (2004) 302-310
• “The Cosm(et)ology of Claudian’s ‘In Sepulchrum Speciosae’,” HSCP 101 (2003) 483-487.
• “Jaroslav Vrchlický’s ‘Akme’ and Catullus 45,” CW 94 (2001) 173-177.
• “Nihilistic Cosmology and Catonian Ethics in Lucan’s Bellum Civile,” AJP 120 (1999) 281-296.
• “La République des Signes: Caesar, Cato, and the Language of Sallustian Morality,” TAPA 128 (1998) 205-220.
• “The Centrality of the Civic Image in Droste’s Mondesaufgang,” Droste-Jahrbuch 3 (1997) 127-134.
• “Catullus 36: Beyond Literary Polemics,” RBPh 74 (1996) 57-59.
• “Papinian on the Interdict unde vi,” RIDA 41 (1994) 379-389.
• “SEG XXXII 1243, 13-15,” RhM 136 (1993) 93-94.
• “Rullus’s Colonies: Cicero, De Lege Agraria 1.16-17 and 2.73-75,” Eos 80 (1992) 81-82.
• “Multiple Structural Divisions in Horace, Odes 1.38,” PP 46 (1991) 444-448.
• “Horace, Odes 1.3,” AC 60 (1991) 266-269.
• “The Death of Priam: ‘Aeneid’ 2.506-558,” Hermes 118 (1990) 67-75.

Translations

• “Aeneas and the Sibyl (Aeneid 6.268-272),” CO 85 (2008) 81.
• “Caroli Baudelaire Elegia de hoste,” CO 84 (2006) 22. (Baudelaire’s “L’Ennemi” translated into Latin elegiac couplets)
• “The Watchman’s Monologue (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1-39),” Small Craft Warnings, Spring 2000, 69-70.
• “Propertius 1.21 (Gallus’ Farewell),” The Formalist Vol. 11, No. 1 (2000), 119.
• “Charles Baudelaire: To The Reader,” Small Craft Warnings, Winter 2000, 71-72.
• “Karel Hlavacek: Impromptu,” Small Craft Warnings, Spring 1999, 55.
• “Rainer Maria Rilke: Autumn Day,” The Formalist, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), 14.
• “Charles Baudelaire: Meditation,” The Formalist, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1992), 101.

Courses Taught at UT

• Classics 111 and 112 (Beginning Latin)
• Classics121 and 122 (Beginning Greek)
• Classics150 (Latin Transition)
• Classics 251 and 252 (Intermediate Latin)
• Classics 253 (Greek and Roman Literature in English Translation)
• Classics 261 (Intermediate Greek)
• Classics 273 (Medical Terminology)
• Classics 352 (Roman Lyric Poetry)
• Classics 401 (Greek Poetry)
• Classics 431 and 432 (Select Readings in Latin Literature)
• Classics 593 (Independent Study)
• Linguistics 423 (Development of Diachronic and Synchronic Linguistics)

Subjects Taught at Other Institutions

• Latin (all undergraduate levels), Honors Seminar on Horace (Swarthmore College), Greek and Roman Civilization, Classical Mythology, Greek Prose Composition

• “Time in Senecan Tragedy.” Keynote lecture, IX. Jornadas de Estudios Clásicos y Medievales, National University of La Plata, Argentina 2019.
• “The Augustan Character of Goethe’s Römische Elegien I: Structure and Recurring Themes.” Curso Internacional del Centro de Estudios Latinos, National University of La Plata, Argentina 2019.
• “The Augustan Character of Goethe’s Römische Elegien II: Observations on Individual Poems.” Curso Internacional del Centro de Estudios Latinos, National University of La Plata, Argentina 2019.
• “Preparing the Elegiac Dido: Amatory Language in Aeneid 1.343-352.” Society for Classical Studies (SCS) 2019.
• “The Augustan Character of Goethe’s Third Römische Elegie.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) 2019.
• “Poetic Autobiography and Literary Polemic in Catullus 16.” Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS)-Southern Section, Atlanta, 2016.
• “Langage, société, et cosmos dans le premier monologue de l’Œdipe de Sénèque.” Classical Association of Canada/Société Canadienne des Études Classiques, Québec City, 2016.
• “Ruined Landscapes and Forgotten Songs in Vergil’s Ninth Eclogue.” CAMWS, Waco,  2014.
• “Sabina’s Poetic Embroidery: A Reading of Ausonius, Epigrams 27-29.” CAMWS, Baton Rouge, 2012.
• “Of Lambs and Mistresses: Patterns of Contradiction in Tibullus Book 1.” CAMWS, Grand Rapids, 2011.
• “Seneca the Younger and Neronian Aesthetics.” CAMWS, Oklahoma City, 2010.
•  “Karel Hlaváček’s Ithaca.”  CAMWS-Southern Section, Richmond, 2010.
• “Lucan the Formalist.” CAMWS-Southern Section, Asheville, 2008.
• “Anti-Petronian Elements in The Great Gatsby,” CAAS 2007, CAMWS, Tucson, 2008.
• “Seneca’s 114th Letter and the Poetics of Decadence,” CAMWS, Cincinnati, 2007; longer version: Wednesday Humanities Lunch, University of Tennessee, 2007.
• “Seneca, Oedipus 980-994: How Stoic a Chorus?” CAMWS-Southern Section, Memphis, 2006.
• “Sappho Boemica: A Reading of Jaroslav Vrchlický’s ‘Sapfó’,” CAMWS, Gainvesville, 2006.
• “Ausonius’s Elegiac Wife: Epigram 20 and the Traditions of Latin Love Poetry,” CAMWS, St. Louis, 2004.
• “How to Dress (for) an Epyllion: The Fabrics of Catullus 64.” CAMWS, Lexington, 2003.
• “Jaroslav Vrchlický’s‘Akmé,’ Catullus 45, and the Poetics of Adaptation,” CAMWS, Knoxville, 2000.
• “Lucan’s Curio and the Problem of ‘Decadent’ Epic,” CAMWS, Cleveland, 1999.
• “Caesar, Cato, and the Language of Sallustian Morality,” American Philological Association,  Chicago, 1997.
• “Cato at the Shrine of Ammon (Lucan, BC 9.564-586):  A Study in Stoic Futility,” CAMWS, Boulder, 1997.
• “River-Fighting in Statius,” CAMWS, Omaha, 1995.

• Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, 2018-2022
• Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, 2009-2018
• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2003-2009
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University, 2002-2003
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics, Swarthmore College, 1997-2000, 2001-2002 (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow 1997-1999)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Greek and Latin, University of Michigan, 2000-2001
• Instructor in Latin, The Emerson School, 1996-1997