• 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

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