Overview
- Latin Literature: Latin poetry
- Gender: gender and identity in antiquity
- Theory: new approaches to classics; psychoanalytic theory; feminist theory
Current Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Classical Studies
·
2010 - Present
Classical Studies,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
'In the name of the father': Ovid's Theban law
Journal Article · October 31, 2023 When Ovid turns to epic in the Metamorphoses, he eschews the genre's preoccupation with either founding or defending polities;1 instead, he constructs a largely 'pastoral' epic of sinister bent.2 There would seem to be no place for Rome in a landscape wher ... Full text CiteThe Father's Tragedy: Assessing Paternity in Statius, Silvae 2.1
Journal Article TAPA: Transactions of the American Philological Association · June 1, 2020 Silvae 2.1 mourns Glaucias, libertus-foster child of Atedius Melior. Statius’s allusions to Vergil’s Aeneid examine fatherhood as a model for understanding other hierarchical relationships. Statius probes Vergil’s implied justification of Augustus’s rule a ... Full text Open Access Link to item CiteAUGUSTAN ELEGY. (H.H.) Review. Hunter Gardner. Gendering Time in Augustan Love Elegy. Pp. x + 285.Oxford:Oxford University Press,2013. Cased, £63, US$110. ISBN:978-0-19-965239-6.
Book Review The Classical Review · October 2014 Full text CiteEducation, Training & Certifications
Princeton University ·
1988
Ph.D.
University of California, Santa Cruz ·
1979
B.A.